Counter-terrorism police have arrested six people and a community centre is temporarily closed as part of an investigation into the banned Kurdistan Workers Party. The group, known as the PKK, is classed as a terrorist organisation in the UK and the arrests came amid a “significant” police probe into potential terrorist activity.

London’s Metropolitan police have opened an investigation into associates of Mohamed Al Fayed who “may have assisted or facilitated” the late billionaire owner of Harrods in alleged rapes and sexual assaults.

Police and protesters have clashed in north London after seven people were arrested as part of a counter terrorism investigation. Five men and two women, aged between 23 and 62, were arrested after an investigation into suspected activity linked to the banned Kurdistan Workers Party,