Security services on alert after bomb threat

Police and troops in Northern Ireland were on full alert today after a failed bomb attack on a high security prison.

As Secretary of State Dr John Reid and the Justice Minister John O’Donoghue signed an intergovernmental agreement on cross-border policing, it was revealed that a vehicle used to transport a bomb weighing nearly 150lb and left outside Maghaberry Jail, near Lisburn, Co Antrim, was stolen in Dublin.