Two Latvian men have been arrested under the National Security Act after a fence was breached at an RAF base in Cambridgeshire.

The alert was raised when a Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) security patrol at RAF Molesworth identified an abandoned vehicle at about 22:00 BST on Wednesday.

After searches by the MDP and Cambridgeshire Constabulary, a small breach of a perimeter fence was identified a few hours later.

The two men, aged 36 and 32, were arrested inside the base perimeter, said a Met Police spokesperson.

They were initially arrested on suspicion of trespass on a prohibited site and criminal damage and taken to a Cambridgeshire police station.

The pair have since been further arrested on suspicion of an offence under section 4 of the National Security Act 2023, external – namely entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK.

Police are not currently linking it to the high-profile incident at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, but are understood to be keeping an open mind.

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