Politicians in the UK have been accused of sparking an “open season on ethnic minorities” after the Government issued new guidelines to tackle illegal Traveller sites.

Freezing fog played havoc with travel today, with flights cancelled, roads jammed and delays on main line rail and Tube services.

METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner Ian Blair was under mounting pressure yesterday as the Tories urged Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to fire him.

A private consortium in charge of upgrading London Underground stations and tracks today launched a formal bid to recover an estimated £1bn (€1.48bn) it believes it is owed for extra work carried out under its deal.

British anti-terror police today raided three addresses in London and the Midlands, making 10 arrests, Scotland Yard said.

IRELAND escaped lightly from great blasts of snow, ice and freezing temperatures that wrought havoc across Britain and much of Europe and the US yesterday.

PRESIDENT George W Bush’s every movement is being monitored from a high-tech command centre in Scotland Yard.

Police investigating the distribution of child pornography on the Internet today raided 18 addresses across Britain and Northern Ireland, Scotland Yard said.

British police were tonight sifting through suspected cyber child porn seized in a series of raids across the country.

Police have arrested a number of suspected paedophiles in the largest ever operation in the UK against child pornography on the internet.