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Syrian Arab trainees practice firing their small arms at an undisclosed training range in northern Syria. Efforts are being made to build alliances of Arab, Kurd and other local fighters to defeat Islamic State. Robert Burns/AP/Press Association Images

Woman and girl arrested in London for trying to go to Syria to join IS

They were arrested on Sunday night.

POLICE IN LONDON have arrested a teenage girl and a young woman on suspicion of an offence under the Terrorism Act.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command arrested a 20-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl on suspicion of attempting to travel to Syria to join a proscribed organisation – believed to be the so-called Islamic State.

They were arrested in central London at about 9pm on Sunday.

Both were taken into custody at a central London police station.

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    Apr 17th 2012, 3:04 PM

    not to worry, sure we’re all positive here ^^

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    Apr 17th 2012, 3:11 PM

    Odds on the possibility of an emergency budget just dropped.

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    Apr 17th 2012, 3:34 PM

    yep, shrink the economy even more, its been working so well up till now…

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    Apr 17th 2012, 8:40 PM

    Second bailout looming???

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    Apr 17th 2012, 6:21 PM

    I think we might need the minister for the environment to take a look at them there figures we might be noticing a new phenomenon where the tide goes out and keeps going out .Strange that, no matter how many bad decisions they make the ship continues to sink , funny you would think one bad decision might have a reverse effect and fix everything or is that just fairy tales fecken hell think someone should tell them hell no they wouldn’t listen anyway.

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    Apr 17th 2012, 3:59 PM

    has anyone a link to the budget figures for 2012… im looking for summary numbers giving basic income (taxes)v expenditure (Govt spending).

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