IRA terrorists behind a two-year bombing campaign in the 1970s compiled lists of hundreds of possible targets, including British MPs, soldiers and Buckingham Palace, newly released files revealed today.

The jury in the trial of eight men accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic passenger jets retired to consider its verdicts in London today.

A British Muslim accused of leading a transatlantic airline bomb plot admitted today that he planned to explode a device at a UK airport terminal.