Public security

Twelve terror plots to UK — most by ISIS — stopped by MI5 and MI6

M15 confirmed the UK has been targeted a dozen times since June 2013 by warped terrorists — including ISIS militants — but police and intelligence services stopped them.

Andrew Parker, director general of the MI5 domestic intelligence agency, said: "Today the most visible threat is from terrorism and in particular that posed by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant — ISIL — or Daesh in Syria.

"Together with MI6 (the foreign intelligence service), GCHQ (the security agency), and the police, MI5 has disrupted 12 plots in the UK since June 2013."

National Crime Agency and Met Police bosses say they have seen a rise in deactivated guns being reactivated in Eastern Europe and coming into Britain by sea, air and even by post.