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| One of the men suspected of the attack on Glasgow Airport worked as a doctor in Paisley, BBC Scotland understands. | |
| It is believed the man was employed as a locum doctor at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, just two miles from the airport building attacked on Saturday. | |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board said they could not comment because of the ongoing police inquiry. | Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board said they could not comment because of the ongoing police inquiry. |
| Police have revealed that at least one of the five people arrested over the weekend was a qualified medical doctor. | Police have revealed that at least one of the five people arrested over the weekend was a qualified medical doctor. |
| A controlled explosion was carried out on a car parked at the Royal Alexandra Hospital over the weekend. Police have been searching houses in the Renfrewshire village of Houston, near Glasgow Airport. | |
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| None of the suspects involved in the Glasgow attack and the foiled London car bombings are British in origin. Detectives are still looking for at least one suspect involved in the plots. | None of the suspects involved in the Glasgow attack and the foiled London car bombings are British in origin. Detectives are still looking for at least one suspect involved in the plots. |
| The terror alert level was raised to critical - its highest level - after a Jeep Cherokee, loaded with gas cylinders, crashed into the doors of Glasgow Airport's main terminal and burst into flames on Saturday afternoon. | |
| Detectives are trying to trace the movements of the green Jeep Cherokee - registration L808 RDT - which crashed into the airport. | |
| The attempted attack at the airport came a day after two Mercedes containing petrol, gas cylinders and nails were found outside a nightclub in London's Haymarket and in a nearby street. The devices failed to detonate. | |
| Police are linking the failed bombings and the UK remains on high alert amid fears of a possible further attack. | |
| It has emerged that detectives tried to contact a letting agency, believed to have rented out a house to one of the suspects, 10 minutes before the attack at Glasgow airport. | |
| One of the suspects is being treated at the Royal Alexandra | |
| Daniel Gardiner, director of the Paisley-based Let-It agency, said officers had traced his company after tracking phone records linked to the foiled London car bomb attacks | |
| BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw suggested the need to track the vehicle's movements could mean the police were still not sure where the car bomb's components were picked up and assembled and who else was involved. | |
| Five people have so far been arrested in connection with the two incidents - in Glasgow, Liverpool and Cheshire, including two men who were detained at Glasgow Airport on Saturday after the attempted attack. | |
| One had severe burns and remains in a critical condition, and under armed police guard, at Royal Alexandra. | |
| The BBC has learned those arrested are believed to be of Middle Eastern nationalities. | |
| The UK's top counter-terrorism officer, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, of the Metropolitan Police, said the links between the three attempted car bombings were becoming "ever clearer". | |
| He described the investigation into the failed bombings as "extremely fast-moving", with forensic searches of vehicles proving "extremely valuable" and thousands of hours of CCTV being sifted through. | |
| Police have urged anyone with information to phone the confidential Anti-Terrorism hotline number on 0800789321. |