Five appear in Scottish court charged with dissident republican conspiracy

Five people with alleged links to dissident Republicanism have appeared in court charged with terrorism offences and conspiracy to murder.

Anton Duffy, Martin Hughes and Stacy McAllister, from Glasgow, Paul Sands, from Ayr, and Edward McVeigh, from Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway, were arrested last Wednesday in an operation led by Police Scotland and involving the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the security service.