Just after midnight on Sunday morning, a group of masked men in three vans were caught in the headlights of a passing car in the Cotswold countryside.
It is a sight capable of unnerving any driver. The encounter just 1,000ft from the perimeter of RAF Fairford led to the local farmer warning her neighbours via WhatsApp to lock their doors and contacting the police.
What she did not know was that the police were already rushing to the scene – having been tipped off by one of the masked men soon arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences.
On Tuesday night it emerged that
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