Revised Prevent strategy

Terrorist hotbeds are spreading around the UK in the wake of the Syria conflict forcing the Government to expand counter-radicalisation programmes, it has emerged.

The lure of Isil for British jihadists from all corners of the country has led to an increasing number of towns and cities causing concern over Islamist extremism.

The number of areas now being supported by the Government’s Prevent strategy, which aims to steer vulnerable people away from radicalisation, has increased by half.

Terror hotbeds growing in UK as jihadists lured to Syria and Isil