“E-mail terror alerts will be sent out to the public under a new system launched by security chiefs at MI5,”the BBC reports. “From Tuesday, people will be able to register on the MI5 website to receive updates when the threat level changes.The initiative follows considerable interest in similar information for the public introduced in August on the MI5 and Home Office websites. MI5 chief Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller recently warned that it was tracking at least 30 terror plots against the UK”.

MI5 to send e-mail terror alerts