EXCLUSIVE
Rob Waugh, David Hogg, Chris Benfield and Paul Jeeves

ANTI-terror police have raided a Government-funded computer training centre in Yorkshire in an investigation into links with the July 7 suicide bombers, the Yorkshire Post can reveal.
The IT2 Home training facility, in Staniforth Road, Sheffield, which is part of the Learndirect network, was one of three premises raided in Yorkshire as part of inquiries into the terrorist attacks in London on July 7.
A team of forensic experts yesterday removed computer equipment from the centre in the Darnall area of the city, which has a large Muslim Asian population.
Sources have told the Yorkshire Post that the police are investigating the potential use of computers by the bombers in the run-up to the attacks in the capital.
The IT2 Home centre offers computer training and also acts as a community resource with easy access to the internet and email.
The raid in Sheffield is the first indication the bombers may have had regional links beyond their homes in West Yorkshire. Sources said terrorists can also try to deliberately distance themselves from their homes.
It is understood none of the trainees or managers are under suspicion. Learndirect operates a network of more than 2,000 online learning centres used by some 1.3 million people. It is funded by the Department for Education and Skills and run by the University of Industry, based in Sheffield.
The Sheffield search began around tea-time on Wednesday and coincided with a raid in Batley, West Yorkshire.
Members of the Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist branch swooped on an address in Bridge Street backed up by officers from the West Yorkshire Police at about 5.30pm on Wednesday.
Yesterday, police tape was strung across the entrance to the Batley house as six scenes of crime officers dressed in protective plastic suits searched inside.
Neighbours told the Yorkshire Post that young children aged between four and eight and thought to be from the local area were often seen going to the house carrying prayer books.
Witnesses said police had carried bags from the house of what appeared to be clothing.
In Leeds, the focus of attention was a computer sales and service shop, Idoo PC, at 209 Dewsbury Road – not far from the police headquarters for the Holbeck division of the city.
The shop was closed and cordoned off yesterday, along with its next-door neighbour, The Plum Tree, a New Age clothing and gifts shop run by a hatmaker called India Honeyball.
The divorcee with two children has been living for two years with the owner of the computer shop. They lived above the shops.
The owner of Idoo is an Asian man, aged about 35, known as Imran. Neighbours said he was from a big family in the Dewsbury and Batley area.
He voluntarily accompanied the police for questioning when they called at midnight on Tuesday and executed a search warrant at the premises.
He was not arrested but has not returned to the shop. Last night, the police were still searching it, visible in silhouette through the blue security shutter.
Neighbours said the Dewsbury Road shop used to be a drop-in centre for people taking on-line courses in computer skills, prompting speculation it could have been used like an internet cafe – where visitors could hire or borrowing a computer to send messages from a neutral address.
One of the July 7 bombers, Shahzad Tanweer, 22, lived less than half-a-mile away. One of the other bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, worked in a Beeston primary school.
Hasib Hussain, 18, who blew up the bus at Tavistock Square, lived in the nearby district of Holbeck.
Last night no arrests had been made as a result of any of the searches.
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