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A FORMER British National Party member has been accused of possessing the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in the country.
Robert Cottage, 49, of Talbot Street, Colne, appeared before Burnley magistrates charged with possession of an explosive substance.
Cottage was charged under the Explosives Substances Act 1883 on Monday night after forensic experts searched his home, allegedly discovering chemical components which could be used to make explosives.
Police sealed off Cottage's home last Thursday and finished their search at the weekend.
Officers claim that their find is the largest haul of chemicals of its kind discovered in someone's home in the country.
However, the exact nature of the chemicals has not been revealed.
David Leach, representing Cottage made no application for bail.
Magistrates remanded Cottage in custody and referred his case to Burnley Crown Court where he is due to appear later this month.
Cottage, a sub-contracted driver for Lancashire County Council, stood for the BNP in the May elections in the Vivary Bridge ward of Colne.
l Police were yesterday searching a house in Trent Road, Nelson, where a 62-year-old-man was arrested in connection with the investigation.
He was last night being quizzed by detectives.
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Cottage was charged under the Explosives Substances Act 1883 on Monday night after forensic experts searched his home, allegedly discovering chemical components which could be used to make explosives.
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now its interesting to note that although this was the largest haul of explosives ever found in the UK in someones house it did not make the headlines.
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Officers claim that their find is the largest haul of chemicals of its kind discovered in someone's home in the country.
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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maybe because it wasn't.
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There's no mention of any 'plot' uncovered, which I'd imagine police would be quite anxious to shout about. There weren't any explosives in the house. Sounds like they've discovered a suspiciously large amount of a non-restricted chemical which could possibly be used to make explosives.
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its not like the police and papers hate muslims and love racists, is it?
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Written by: biggins
really? can you provide me with sources please??[/Quote]
from your own source
https://community.channel4.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/503603557/m/4250054646
[Quote]Cottage was charged under the Explosives Substances Act 1883 on Monday night after forensic experts searched his home, allegedly discovering chemical components which could be used to make explosives[/Quote]
You can turn a lot of household cleaning products and legally obtainable chemicals into explosives fairly eaily... Note the article says that the undisclosed substance COULD rather than HAD been used to make anything potentially dangerous.
So there were no explosives and it seems there was no plot - at least no one other than yourself has mentioned one. Pay a little more attention to your sources before attempting to infer such grand headlines.
Does this make you a 'whinging pommie' - no... but possibly an easily led alarmist. The reason there's been no media reaction is that nothing of note has happened.
Had the police believed they had stopped a far right plot to bomb London it would have been front page news - but as this hasn't happened there's no story to report.He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nietzsche
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On September 18, Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer with decades of anti-terror and explosives experience, declared the plot to be 'fiction'. He said the explosives in question could not possibly have been produced on the plane. "So who came up with the idea that a bomb could be made on board? Not Al Qaeda for sure. It would not work. Bin Laden is interested in success not deterrence by failure," Wylde stated. He further suggested that the plot was an invention of the UK security services in order to justify wide-ranging new security measures that threaten to permanently curtail civil liberties and to suspend sections of the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act of 1998.
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Police Superintendent Neil Smith said: "He's not a terrorist and it's not a bomb factory but we are interested in what we have seized from his house. It will take expert advice to establish exactly what he has got. He was arrested under the Explosive Substances Act 1883 on suspicion of possessing chemical substances that aren't in themselves an offence to possess but if combined may be capable of making an explosion."
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Does this make you a 'whinging pommie' - no... but possibly an easily led alarmist. The reason there's been no media reaction is that nothing of note has happened.
There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
Written by: faithinfire
what's bnp british national police?
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
Written by: faithinfire
isn't that an oxymoron
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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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Written by: Sym
the police think something happened!
Written by: Debby Moyse, Assistant to the head of BBC news
I have investigated how the story was missed. It appears a reporter from BBC Radio Lancashire investigated initial reports but the police "played it down".
Written by: The Lancashire Telegraph
Superintendent Neil Smith moved to reassure residents and stressed: "It is not a bomb making factory" and added that it was not related to terrorism.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nietzsche
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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even if they didn't do anything wrong i think the goverment should enact laws that require all BNP members suspected of anything more serious that parking offences to be detained without trial. then moved to a specal containment facility on a deserted island off the north of scotland, electronicaly taged and left to rot i would call it
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
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*arrives wearing camo paint, pink thong and carrying suspiciously large bananas*
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