An art expert who appeared on the BBC’s Bargain Hunt show has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for failing to report his sale of pricey works to a suspected financier of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said arson attacks on properties linked to him represent “an attack on all of us, on democracy and the values that we stand for.”.

British counterterrorism officers have arrested four Iranian men over an alleged plot to attack an unspecified target and three others over a national security threat.

A former soldier awaiting trial on terror charges who appears to have escaped from a London prison by strapping himself to the underside of a food delivery truck remains at large as police are combing the United Kingdom amid concerns he may try to flee the country.