The UK international terror threat level has been raised to "severe", Home Secretary Theresa May has said. The new alert level means an attack is "highly likely". It is the second highest of five possible threat levels:
Critical - attack expected imminently
Severe - attack highly likely
Substantial - attack a strong possibility
Moderate - attack possible but not likely
Low - an attack unlikely
Mrs May said there was no intelligence to suggest an attack was "imminent" but that the level had been raised in response to events in Iraq and Syria. The threat level in the UK last changed in July 2011 when it was reduced to "substantial".
Rotterdam, 29/08/2014-INC News (via BBC)
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