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Three other men are being questioned by police.A senior republican has also been detained in Co Tyrone. Brian Arthurs, 40, was arrested in Dungannon, and a 43-year-old suspect was also held in Coalisland. A man has been charged with the £26.5m Northern Bank robbery in Belfast, the biggest cash robbery in UK history. Dominic McEvoy, 23, of Kilcoo, Co Down, is the first person to be charged with the robbery. He was also accused of taking a husband and wife hostage and possessing a gun or imitation firearm during the heist last December in Belfast city centre.

He will appear at Belfast magistrates’ court this morning.
Mr McEvoy is accused of falsely imprisoning Kevin McMullan, a supervisor at the Northern Bank, and his wife Karen.Police held Mr McEvoy at his Mullandra Park home on Tuesday as part of a planned operation that has led to five arrests so far. He had been arrested on October 22 after voluntarily attending a London police station. Al-Daour was charged with conspiracy to obtain money by deception and terrorism offences relating to the possession of money for terrorist purposes and fundraising. He was also appearing this afternoon at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court.. They were due appear for remand at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court at 2pm this afternoon. The investigation is not connected to the 7 July London bombings.

Mughal was charged with a total of ten offences, Tsouli a total of eight. The other charges each faces under the Terrorism Act include alleged offences relating to the possession of articles for terrorist purposes and fundraising. A third man Tariq Al-Daour, 19, of Queens Court, Queens Way, Paddington, west London, was also charged today with offences under the Terrorism Act. The men were held on 21 October in Chatham, Kent, and Shepherd’s Bush, west London, on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
Waseem Mughal, 22, of Railway Street, Chatham, and Younis Tsouli, 22, of Richmond Way, Shepherd’s Bush, were each charged today with conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to cause an explosion, conspiracy to cause a public nuisance, conspiracy to obtain money by deception and other offences under the Terrorism Act. But the Prime Minister provoked fresh criticism from Labour MPs after dashing their hopes that he was ready to climb down over controversial plans to allow the police to hold suspected terrorists without charge for up to 90 days He was branded “out of touch” by some backbench critics.. Two men arrested under the Terrorism Act last month were charged today with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion.

George Galloway, the firebrand left-winger who dramatically split with Labour, has emerged as one of the MPs whose absence ensured the Government survived a key vote on its anti-terror laws. The Respect MP missed the division on Wednesday which saw Tony Blair’s majority plunge to just one because he was in Ireland for a performance of his one-man show.. Tony Blair has admitted that he faces “tough times” as he seeks to stabilise his government after the resignation of David Blunkett. The only way we can make that controversy real to people is to show them the size of the numbers involved – we are talking about £1,200 off their tax.”.

Charles Clarke has suffered an embarrassing defeat after the law lords ruled that a policy that has forced hundreds of asylum-seekers to sleep rough violates their human rights. Some adult asylum-seekers were left on the streets or dependent on charity hand-outs after being refused state benefits because they applied for asylum too late.. This is the controversy we have to have week in week out until the next election. I said on the Home Affairs committee that is what you would do.” Davis: “Cannabis now is responsible for a large proportion of those who go into psychiatric institutions I wouldn’t downgrade them It destroys lives. That is why as a parent I was terrified.” TAX Cameron: Supported cuts but said: “I think setting out detailed tax plans five years before you are going to take over the running of the economy simply doesn’t make sense because you don’t know whether that economy will be growing or shrinking. My worry is that if the Tory party spends too much time flashing up tax cuts, it won’t convince people we are serious about managing the economy for the best of everyone in this country.” Davis: “We put tax cuts to the electorate last time three or four weeks before the election Nobody took us seriously.