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I despair at the knee-jerk manner in which some media treated the news that five people had been held in a counter-terrorism operation at Liverpool John Moores University campus yesterday.
One national newspaper threw out a front page announcing that the police had thwarted a terror attack on Anfield. A London-based radio station said the plan was 'to blow up the Trafford Centre'.
Both claims were wholly unsubstantiated and probably nonsense.
They only serve to scare people - and that sort of behaviour is utterly out of order.
Would I have run a story about a folied terror attack on Anfield? Of course I would - but only if our sources convinced me it was true.
The Echo's sources indicated a planned explosion of major proportions. And that's what we're running with.