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Byline: Phil Harrison Star Rating: 4 stars There was a lovely mood in London on the evening of 6 July 2005: like the heady fizz of a midsummer glass of [...]

Byline: Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent Relatives of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings have said 'England's biggest unsolved mass murder of the 20th century' should be at the top [...]

Byline: Hollie Richardson, Phil Harrison and Simon Wardell Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Sunday, 9pm, BBC One The highly acclaimed adaptation of Hilary Mantel's rich tapestry of a [...]

Byline: Andrew Gregory Health editor A senior doctor repeatedly broke down in tears as he described how Covid-19 was like NHS staff having to respond to a 'terrorist attack every [...]

Byline: Laura Snapes Morrissey has claimed that the release of his 14th solo album, Bonfire of Teenagers, has been 'gagged' owing to the subject of its title track, the 2017 [...]

Byline: Jamie Grierson On a winding country lane in a secret location in east Devon, just a few metres from the side of the road, an inconspicuous pile of logs, [...]

Byline: Patrick Barkham 'Beaver bombing', covertly releasing beavers into the countryside, is increasing in England because successive governments have not fulfilled promises to permit some planned wild releases, conservationists are [...]

Byline: Mabel Banfield-Nwachi Tributes have been paid to Sir Howard Bernstein, widely credited with regenerating Manchester, who has died at the age of 71. Bernstein began his career at Manchester [...]

Byline: Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent Northern Ireland's attorney general has recommended a new inquest into a bombing by loyalist paramilitaries that killed 15 people, including two children, in Belfast in [...]

Byline: Jonathan Cash On Saturday 17 April 1999, a bomb exploded in Brixton market in south London, injuring 48 people, including a 23-month-old child. Newspapers showed an X-ray of the [...]

Byline: Peter Walker Deputy political editor The London mayor's office has condemned a 'grotesquely irresponsible' attack in which a camera enforcing the city's ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) was damaged with [...]

Byline: Josh Halliday North of England correspondent A hospital worker was talked out of detonating a homemade bomb to kill his colleagues when a patient thought he looked upset and [...]

Byline: Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent It became known as the second great fire of London, the worst night of the blitz in the British capital during the second [...]

Byline: Rich Pelley You will remember Dave Angel: Eco Warrior as the Essex-based ex-gangster turned environmental campaigner from BBC sketch show The Fast Show. Dave has been on hand since [...]

Byline: Ellen E Jones As we approach the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement, you'll find little on television that says as much about a changing Northern Ireland as [...]

Byline: Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent The government's decision to hold an inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing is the result of a long, lonely campaign by some of the injured [...]

Byline: Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent Gerry Adams would not have stopped the IRA bombing of the London Docklands in 1996 if he had known about it in advance, according to [...]

Byline: Vikram Dodd The chief constable of the West Midlands has said prosecutors have been asked to consider charges against a man for carrying out the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings [...]

Byline: Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent Police in Northern Ireland are investigating the apparent attempted murder of two officers in a bomb attack on Thursday night. A suspected improvised explosive device [...]

Byline: Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor Older men are now the main perpetrators of rightwing terror attacks, the UK's independent reviewer of terrorism said on Monday after the firebomb attack [...]

Byline: Mark Brown Figen Murray, who lost her 29-year-old son Martyn Hett in the Manchester Arena bombing, said she wanted now to look forward and make sure the same mistakes [...]

Byline: Matthew Weaver Police are being urged to treat Sunday's petrol bomb attack on an immigration centre in Dover as a terrorist incident, amid growing concern that anti-refugee rhetoric from [...]

Byline: Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill A man who was arrested in connection with the 1996 Manchester IRA bombing has been released without charge. He was held on suspicion of terrorism at Birmingham [...]

Byline: Jamie Grierson A man has been arrested in connection with the 1996 bombing of Manchester city centre. Greater Manchester police said a man was held at Birmingham airport on [...]

Byline: Jack Seale Star Rating: 3 stars Always, when a terrorist atrocity takes place, the questions are the same: how could this have happened? Could it have been prevented? The [...]

Byline: Duncan Campbell Chris Mullin, the journalist and former MP, has won the right to protect his sources in a historic freedom of the press case at the Old Bailey. [...]

Byline: Duncan Campbell A former MP and investigative journalist has refused to divulge the sources of his information about the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings in a hearing at the Old [...]

Byline: Josh Halliday North of England correspondent The Liverpool bomber had an asylum claim rejected on multiple grounds six years before he attempted to detonate a homemade explosive outside a [...]

Byline: Jessica Murray Marching alongside her fellow Liberal Democrats through Oswestry, their orange placards thrust triumphantly in the air, North Shropshire's new MP insisted her sensational byelection win was about [...]

Byline: Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent A previously confidential Ministry of Defence document grants British troops permission to engage in potentially illegal bombing, which has not been approved by parliament, [...]

Byline: Ammar Kalia, Jack Seale, Ellen E Jones, Hannah J Davies and Paul Howlett Blitz Spirit With Lucy Worsley 8.30pm, BBC One The BBC's favourite historical fancy dresser returns for [...]

Byline: Damian Carrington Environment editor The detonation of wartime bombs left on the seafloor around the UK must end to stop the deaths of whales and dolphins, campaigners say. The [...]

Byline: Maya Wolfe-Robinson A man has been arrested at Manchester airport as bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion on a suspect package just after 9.30am. Police officers rushed [...]

Byline: Mattha Busby A man accused of going on to the tracks at a busy London tube station and falsely claiming to have a bomb has been arrested by armed [...]

Byline: Helen Pidd North of England editor The chief constable of Greater Manchester police (GMP) has accused the BBC of breaching its own guidelines and broadcasting 'wholly inaccurate reporting' in [...]

Byline: Frances Perraudin North of England reporter A group of junior doctors who were among the first medics on the scene at the Manchester Arena bombing a year ago have [...]

Byline: Letters Tributes have rightly been paid to Tessa Jowell's courage and inspiration to others during her last illness after the diagnosis in 2017 that she had the most aggressive [...]

Byline: Helen Pidd and Hannah Ellis-Petersen Manchester's Great CityGames began as scheduled on Friday with the women's pole vault kicking off events in Albert Square, where days earlier thousands had [...]

Byline: Catherine Vale The Manchester Arena attack earlier this week is likely to be discussed by students and teachers in schools across the UK and beyond. It can be difficult [...]

Byline: Claire Phipps Rudd: Police cuts 'not a factor' in attack New raid in St Helens, Merseyside What we know so far The investigation Police arrested a man in Manchester's [...]

Byline: Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent At 8.17pm on the evening of 21 November 1974, a Provisional IRA bomb exploded inside the Mulberry Bush pub in Birmingham city centre. Ten [...]

Byline: Henry McDonald Ireland correspondent A Northern Ireland man accused of carrying out an IRA bomb attack 18 years ago had traces of blood in the back of a Catholic [...]

Byline: Nicholas Watt Chief political correspondent John McDonnell, the new shadow chancellor, has apologised from the 'bottom of my heart' for suggesting in 2003 that the IRA should be honoured [...]

Byline: Jamie Grierson A record number of terrorist arrests were made in the last year, according to official figures, surpassing the previous peak following the 7 July London bombings. There [...]

Byline: Dave Hill The patriotic defiance of cockney London during the Blitz is part of the national folklore many Britons, including me, grew up with. Not everyonebelieves it was quite [...]

Byline: Henry McDonald Ireland correspondent Dissident republicans tried to kill police officers in a double-bomb trap in Northern Ireland, it was confirmed on Sunday. The Police Service of Northern Ireland [...]

Byline: Jason Burke Back in the mid-90s, it was not very difficult to find Islamic militants in London. You would make a few calls, there would be a pause while [...]

Byline: Mehdi Hasan It could have been me. King's Cross was my station. But 10 years ago, on the morning of 7 July, 2005, I happened to be on a [...]

Byline: Esther Addley The family of one of the victims of 7/7 has launched a campaign designed to tackle extremism in schools, days before the 10th anniversary of the attacks. [...]

Byline: Jack Seale, Andrew Mueller, Hannah J Davies, John Robinson, Graeme Virtue, Ben Arnold and Rachel Aroesti The Syndicate 9pm, BBC1 'I'm having a double stainless steel with waste disposal!' [...]