MI5 to review intelligence handling on Manchester attacker

Security services received at least three warnings about suicide bomber Salman Abedi's extremist views

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MI5 has begun an internal review over how it handled intelligence about the Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi amid growing criticism that it failed to deal properly with warnings that he posed a threat.

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