Member of the public who contacted police after seeing ‘group of hooded and masked men’ near RAF base says she thinks ‘someone dropped the ball’ over incident UK security forces aware of suspected bomb plot, hints defence secretary RAF Fairford suspected bomb plot: have you been affected? We don’t yet know the nationalities or ages of the five suspects who were arrested, their motivations/exact plans or if anybody else was involved in the suspected plot. We are expecting an update from the police later today that could answer some of these questions. In Fairford, police have imposed a 400m cordon around the air base and evacuated about residents from 85 homes while the investigation into the major incident continues. Continue reading...