Emergency Landing For Boris Johnson At Luton

Mr Johnson on a helicopter in Hong Kong in 2013 - his flight to Brussels was not quite as smooth

Boris Johnson's first overseas trip as Foreign Secretary got off to a shaky start as his plane was forced to make an emergency landing on its way to Brussels.

The plane, described by the Ministry of Defence as a small military aircraft, took off from RAF Northolt on Sunday afternoon but had to land at Luton Airport.

A Foreign Office spokesman said there was a "technical issue" on the RAF flight, which had been carrying Mr Johnson and some officials to the Belgian capital. No further details were available.

He added: "The Foreign Secretary thanked the RAF crew for their professionalism and was grateful to Luton Airport for the brief, unscheduled welcome.

"After a short delay the Foreign Secretary continued on his way to Brussels by alternative means."

Flights to and from the airport were grounded, with delays and cancellations, while emergency services dealt with the situation.

Mr Johnson, 51, is in Brussels to rebuild the UK's relationship with the European Union.

European ministers and US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet formally today to discuss the conflicts in Syria and Libya as well as the Palestinian-Israeli peace process.

They are also likely to discuss terrorism in the wake of the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice and relations with Turkey after a failed coup attempt in the country.

Five Hurt In Yorkshire Helicopter Crash

Five people have been injured in a helicopter crash at Breighton Aerodrome near Selby.

Humberside Police said the helicopter crashed around 6pm today.

Two people have been airlifted to local hospitals, with the other three taken to hospital by ambulance.

Their injuries are serious but not believed to be life-threatening, police added.

The Air Accident Investigation Branch has launched a probe into the crash.

Lorry Killer 'Visited Scene Twice Before Attack'

The man who drove a lorry into a crowd in Nice is believed to have gone to the scene twice in his rented truck before the attack.

The news came from a judicial source as two more people were arrested over the Bastille Day atrocity which claimed at least 84 lives and left more than 200 injured.

Mohamed Bouhlel, a 31-year-old French Tunisian who had lived in the French city for a number of years, mowed down revellers who gathered on the promenade for a fireworks display on Thursday night.

Bouhlel, who was shot dead by police after the attack, is thought to have made trips to the seafront on the two days leading up to the massacre.

Around 85 victims remain in hospital and 18 of them - including one child - are in a life-threatening condition.

Of the 84 people who died, 16 remain unidentified along with one of the injured.

Meanwhile, a man and a woman were held in Nice on Sunday morning.

Their arrests follow the detention of five other people since the tragedy, including Bouhlel's estranged wife. She has now been released from custody.

Authorities are trying to determine if he acted alone but the country's prime minister has said he had been radicalised quickly.

Several people, among hundreds who have been questioned, said Bouhlel showed signs of being religious, according to the judicial source.

But some of his friends and relatives have claimed he smoked, drank and never visited mosques.

Jihadist group Islamic State has said the lorry driver was one of their "soldiers".

Officials have yet to produce evidence that Bouhlel had any links to IS.

However, PM Manuel Valls said there was no doubt about the Tunisian's motives.

Speaking in an interview with Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, Mr Valls said: "The investigation will establish the facts, but we know now that the killer was radicalised very quickly.

The claim on Saturday morning by Islamic State and the fast radicalisation of the killer confirms the Islamist nature of this attack."

He added: "Daesh (IS) gives unstable individuals an ideological kit that allows them to make sense of their acts... this is probably what happened in Nice's case."

Search Restarts After Power Station Demolition

The search for the bodies of three men who died when a power station in south Oxfordshire partially collapsed is set to continue this morning after the remainder of the building was demolished.

Four demolition contractors died when a boiler room building at the Didcot Power Station unexpectedly collapsed on 23 February.

Only one body, that of Michael Collings, 53, has been recovered so far.

Ken Cresswell, 57, and John Shaw, 61, both from Rotherham, South Yorkshire and Chris Huxtable, 34, from Swansea, are still missing under 20,000 tonnes of rubble.

It is still unknown what the causes of the tragedy were.

:: Didcot Collapse 'Looked Like World Had Ended'

The building - which was due for demolition when it partially collapsed - became too unstable to be approached by rescue workers and a 50-metre exclusion zone was set up around the site.

A remote demolition brought down the remainder of the decommissioned site shortly before 6am, in a unique operation that made use of 10 remote-controlled robots.

Teams will now be deployed to resume searching the remnants of the plant.

Roland Alford, who is the explosives contractor at the power station, said the four-month delay in completing the demolition was necessary on safety grounds.

He said: "There has been quite a lot of criticism about delays, questioning why it has taken so long to get to this point, but the fact is nothing like this has ever been attempted before and this is not a simple demolition.

"We have been working on it night and day since March and built up quite a sizeable team of very expert people to work on this, to come up with the charges, the methods of doing it and training."

He added: "It was almost unthinkable to send people to work underneath there and place charges, given the fact the building could come down at any moment - you legally can't justify that."

Roads and trains were halted in the surrounding area while the demolition took place.

Turks March As Erdogan Seeks Revenge For Coup

Tens of thousands have marched through the streets of Turkey in support of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the president plots his revenge for the coup that failed to topple his regime.

Some 2,839 alleged coup supporters have been rounded up by the authorities, while 2,745 judges have also been arrested.

There is speculation the death penalty could be reintroduced by a president whose authority now appears to have been bolstered by Friday's military challenge.

Mr Gulen has denied any involvement and says he condemns the attempted coup "in the strongest terms".

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the perpetrators of the failed coup "will receive every punishment they deserve" - but the US urged caution.

The White House said Barack Obama had "registered the vital need for all parties in Turkey to act within the rule of law and to avoid actions that would lead to further violence or instability".

Eight soldiers who fled in a military helicopter to Greece will hear their fate on Sunday following Turkey's call to "extradite the eight traitors as soon as possible".

At least 161 people were killed and 1,440 injured as the Government tried to thwart the takeover.

It is also believed that more than 100 coup plotters died.

Defence minister Fikri Isik said the Turkish government is now in full control of all areas in the country, but stressed that "at any time there could be new tests and new attempts" to impose martial law.

:: Failed Coup A Great Opportunity For Erdogan

Turkey's four main political parties held an extraordinary parliamentary meeting on Saturday, and issued a joint statement strongly condemning the coup.

Meanwhile, flights into Istanbul's international airport have resumed after being halted for nearly 24 hours.

Davis: New EU Migrants May Be Forced To Leave

Brexit minister David Davis says EU migrants who arrive between now and the UK's departure from the bloc may not be given the opportunity to stay, in order to prevent a last-minute rush to Britain.

Mr Davis wants to secure "a generous settlement for EU migrants here now and a generous settlement for British citizens in the EU" - but this may not apply to newcomers.

On the possibility of a surge of migrants before the departure, Mr Davis told The Mail On Sunday: "We may have to deal with that. There are a variety of possibilities.

"We may have to say that the right to indefinite leave to remain protection only applies before a certain date. But you have to make those judgments on reality, not speculation."

Mr Davis also claimed Article 50, the two-year mechanism for leaving the EU, should be invoked by early 2017 - meaning the UK would be out by 2019.

Meanwhile, Australia has called for a free trade deal with the UK as soon as possible.

New Prime Minister Theresa May spoke to Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull on Saturday.

She said the phone call proved leaving the European Union could work for the UK.

Mrs May said: "I have been very clear that this Government will make a success of our exit from the European Union.

"One of the ways we will do this is by embracing the opportunities to strike free trade deals with our partners across the globe.

"It is very encouraging that one of our closest international partners is already seeking to establish just such a deal."

A new poll suggests Mrs May should not call a second referendum on any deal the UK reaches with the bloc.

In a ComRes poll for the Sunday Mirror and The Independent, 57% rejected calls for a second referendum - an idea backed by Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith. Some 29% were in favour.

Mrs May also enjoyed a commanding lead over her Labour counterpart Jeremy Corbyn - with 55% saying she is a strong leader compared with 13% for the Opposition leader.

:: Brexit minister David Davis and the Labour leadership challenger Angela Eagle will both be on the Murnaghan programme on Sky News from 10am this morning.

'New Attempts' At Coup Possible, Turks Warned

Thousands of people have taken to the streets to express their support for President Erdogan after an attempted coup in Turkey, with officials warning "it is too soon to say that the danger is over".

Crowds have gathered outside the country's parliament, where demonstrators have been demanding for the death penalty to be reintroduced and imposed on those who plotted the unrest.

"We got your message. The necessary will be done," prime minister Binali Yildrim told the protesters. Capital punishment was scrapped in Turkey more than 10 years ago.

At least 161 people were killed and 1,440 injured as they tried to thwart the takeover, and it is also believed that more than 100 "coup plotters" have died. The death toll has not been updated for many hours.

Defence minister Fikri Isik has said the Turkish government is in full control of all areas in the country, but stressed that "at any time there could be new tests and new attempts" to impose martial law.

More than 2,800 military personnel, soldiers and high-ranking officers among them, have been arrested in connection with the attempted coup.

Turkey's four main political parties held an extraordinary parliamentary meeting on Saturday, and issued a joint statement strongly condemning the coup.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked the United States to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric exiled in Pennsylvania who is accused of masterminding the plot.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said his country will entertain the extradition request if evidence of Mr Gulen's wrongdoing withstands scrutiny.

Mr Gulen has denied any involvement and says he condemns the attempted coup "in the strongest terms".

Countries around the world, including Germany, Italy and Russia, have said Turkey's democratic institutions must be respected, but stressed that the bloodshed and violence on the streets must come to an end.

Activity at airports in Istanbul and Ankara is beginning to return to normal, but flights from the US and the UK remain cancelled, with British Airways hoping to offer a "reduced schedule" on Sunday.

The closure of Turkish airspace has also affected military operations at Incirlik airbase in southern Turkey, with the Pentagon confirming that US warplanes have suspended flying missions against IS in Iraq and Syria.

Mr Erdogan has condemned the uprising as an act of "treason", and has insisted that the attempted coup was carried out by a small minority within Turkey's army.

Appearing relaxed, he told crowds in Istanbul: "The army is ours, not of that parallel structure. I am chief commander."

At one stage on Friday evening, Mr Erdogan had conducted an extraordinary TV interview, in which he addressed the nation from a mobile phone held up by the presenter.

Aerial attacks, explosions and gunfire had ripped through Istanbul and Ankara throughout the night, and at one point, two television stations were taken off the air after being stormed by the military.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says he has spoken to his Turkish counterpart and underlined the UK's support for Turkey's democratically elected government.