A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences at Liverpool John Lennon airport in connection with the Manchester Arena attack. The teenager was arrested on Friday and a property in Fallowfield, south Manchester, was being searched as part of the investigation, police said.

It is understood that the arrested suspect is not Hashem Abedi, the younger brother of suicide bomber Salman Abedi who is being held in Libya. The arrest is the 23rd under the investigation into the suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May in which Salman Abedi killed 22 other people. It comes a day after detectives said they believed the bomber did not act alone when preparing the deadliest attack on UK soil since the 7/7 bombings exactly 12 years ago.

Three police vans with riot shields attached, including one specialist operations vehicle, were stationed outside a red-brick semi-detached house on Thelwall Avenue on Friday, around the corner from Abedi’s family home in Fallowfield. Neighbours said police letters were put through their doors shortly before the afternoon raid, warning them that they might hear controlled explosions.(theguardian)…[+]