UK faces ‘intense’ terror threat

British intelligence services are facing an “intense” challenge from terrorism, according to the head of MI5.

Andrew Parker said there was currently “more terrorist activity coming at us, more quickly” and that it could also be “harder to detect”.

The UK has suffered five terror attacks this year.

Mr Parker said: “One of the main challenges we’ve got is that we only ever have fragments of information, and we have to try to assemble a picture of what might happen, based on those fragments.”