Terror teacher guilty

A SELF-STYLED teacher trained an “army of children” for terrorist attacks on 30 targets across London.

Islamic State fanatic Umar Haque, 25, planned to use guns and a car packed with explosives to strike high-profile targets including Big Ben.

Haque, who groomed children as young as 11 for his plans, was found guilty of plotting terror attacks with help from two others. They will be sentenced at a later date. THE rail line at Dawlish on the south Devon coast has been closed after the sea wall was breached.

Flooding and debris blocked the line after up to 15 metres of fencing and stones were displaced, Network Rail said.

A “substantial amount” of ballast has also been washed across the track along 150 metres of the railway. Trains are unable to run along the route, which suffered damage after the sea wall collapsed during storms in 2014.

A Network Rail spokesman said: “There is no structural damage to the sea wall, and the integrity of the railway itself has not been damaged, which is testimony to the quality of the strengthening works in 2014.”

No services operated on the route yesterday, with local Labour MP Luke Pollard accusing the Government of “vague promises” in the South West rail strategy.

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said on Wednesday that avoiding a repeat of the 2014 disruption at Dawlish “has been a key priority” since he began his role.

Storms and cold weather continue to disrupt the UK, with the army being drafted in to help hospitals in the Midlands and West Country and more than 1,900 flights to or from British and Irish airports cancelled yesterday.