Weapons-obsessed Damon Smith built the device at home with a £2 clock from Tesco after finding an online al Qaida article entitled Make A Bomb In The Kitchen Of Your Mom.

A weapons-obsessed student is facing years behind bars for planting a home-made bomb on a busy Tube train.

There were severe delays today on one of the key Tube lines that will take people to the Olympics in London.

The 20,000 people who missed out on London 2012 tickets in the first two rounds of sales will be given priority when 900,000 more tickets go on sale at 11am on Friday.

THE distraught family of a 52-year-old Dungarvan man who was pushed under a train in London last Friday flew to England yesterday to identify the body of their loved one.