The assets of stricken van maker LDV are to be sold to a company owned by a former consultant of the MG Rover Phoenix Four directors.

The assets of stricken vanmaker LDV are to be sold to vehicle engineering company Eco Concept, administrators announced today.

Nine men were being held tonight in England over an alleged terrorist plot to carry out an Iraqi-style kidnapping of a British Muslim soldier.

THE July 7 plot in which four suicide bombers killed 52 people on the London transport network may have been much larger than previously thought.

A suspected would-be suicide bomber was captured in a dramatic armed raid by British police and MI5 today.