and chequered criminal history. at the time that he was arrested, he was living in sheltered accommodation in brighton, but obviously at some point in the course of that offending he seems to have become inspired through some kind of islamist ideology and it s through hatton tash at speaker s corner. speaker s corner of course being the place in london where people are allowed to come and talk about whatever they want. and very often these days there are quite strong religious arguments there between muslim speakers and speakers from other denominations like hatton tash, who is a christian preacher. he ll be sentenced onjuly the 21st. some breaking news two men have been arrested over the attempted murder of a senior police officer in northern ireland earlier this year. the pair, aged 28 and 70, were arrested following separate searches in county tyrone. detective chief inspectorjohn caldwell was shot several times at a sports centre in omagh in february. he d been putting
flooding rain. some of that rain is likely to get into parts of spain. but probably not enough, when i show you these pictures of wildfires that are burning right now in the western side of spain. it has been dry in spain for many, many months, over the last few days very strong winds have been fanning these wildfires. not enough rain this weekend to make a huge dent in that situation. back home things are quiet, but the best of the sunshine this week for england and wales, where scotland and northern ireland will be cloudy and northern ireland will be cloudy and there will be outbreaks of rain. that said, most of the rain this afternoon is to be found across england and wales, some sharp, thundery downpours through the west midlands and down into the west country. further north and west it is a bit of a mixture of patchy cloud, spells of hazy sunshine and the best of the sunshine across parts of scotland, 18 in glasgow, 19th plymouth and not feeling too bad if you do get som
and the police say that he was on his way to try and purchase a gun. police also said that on his phone he was carrying an encrypted messaging app called freema. and on that there was details of his plots to not only attack hatton tash, but also to attack any police officers or soldiers that might be there at the time. though today, edward little s barrister tom godfrey said mr little accepts researching, researching the intended targets being hatton tash, he does not accept the intended target being the military or the metropolitan police. so there is still some dispute there between the prosecution and the defence. the courts previously heard that edward little has had a very, very violent past since the age of 15. he s had a string of convictions for things like wounding, carrying a knife, assault for drug dealing. so he s had a very long
and chequered criminal history. at the time that he was arrested, he was living in sheltered accommodation in brighton, but obviously at some point in the course of that offending he seems to have become inspired through some kind of islamist ideology and it s through hatton tash at speaker s corner. speaker s corner of course being the place in london where people are allowed to come and talk about whatever they want. and very often these days there are quite strong religious arguments there between muslim speakers and speakers from other denominations like hatton tash, who is a christian preacher. he ll be sentenced onjuly the 21st. some breaking news two men have been arrested over the attempted murder of a senior police officer in northern ireland earlier this year. the pair, aged 28 and 70, were arrested following separate searches in county tyrone. detective chief inspectorjohn caldwell was shot several times at a sports centre in omagh in february. he d been putting footballs
in cash when he was stopped and arrested last september. our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, has been following the case. this morning, edward little appeared by video link from prison and having previously pleaded not guilty to the offence of preparing a terrorist act, he had the charge read to him again, and this morning he pleaded guilty to the charge of preparing a terrorist act. and the terrorist act that he s pleaded guilty to was essentially planning to murder a christian preacher who often has arguments with muslims. at speaker s corner in hyde park in london, a woman called hatton tash, and the offence that he s pleaded guilty to amounts to him researching her, researching the location where he wanted to attack her, gathering £5,000 in order to purchase a gun, and then going about the act of trying to purchase that gun. when he was arrested, he was in a taxi for which he d paid £300 to travel from brighton to london,