That’s the end of the liveblog for tonight with sighs of relief from bomb disposal soldiers, I dare say, and everyone allowed to return to their beds. Check back in the morning and see if the ...

A MAJOR police operation was launched in Birkenhead after a suspect package ... and the Royal Army Logistics Corps bomb disposal joined them in the area together with a bomb disposal robot.

of Birkenhead, was found guilty of engaging in the conduct in the preparation of terrorist acts. Police found a homemade improvised explosive, a replica Nazi uniform and plans to bomb mosques and ...

In the eary 1940s the Liverpool docks were a significant target for the Luftwaffe, and as we lived in Birkenhead my parents, my student age brother and I, aged 8, were vulnerable, as were our ...