Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, were found guilty by a jury at Preston Crown Court in December and have been sentenced to 37 and 26 years respectively for the crime.
They had bought assault rifles, handguns and ammunition for the suicide attack they planned on Jewish targets. They saw any Christian victims "as a bonus".
Saadaoui's brother, Bilel Saddaoui, 36, of Fairclough Street, Hindley, Wigan, was found guilty of failing to disclose information about the pair's terror plans and was sentenced to six years in jail with an additional year on licence.
Greater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts said the plan would have resulted in "the deadliest terrorist attack in UK history".
The consequences of carrying out an attack in a crowded area on the Manchester Jewish community would have been "catastrophic", he said.
Saadaoui, the former owner of an Italian restaurant in a Norfolk seaside town, "hero-worshipped" Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the Paris attacks of 2015, and wanted to replicate the attacks in which 130 people were killed, the prosecution told Preston Crown Court.
He sold up, moved north and used part of the proceeds from his house sale to pay €5,000 (£4,400) as an initial payment for four AK-47 assault rifles, two handguns and 1,200 rounds of ammunition as he planned a marauding gun attack in revenge for Israeli attacks on Gaza.
His target was the same area of Manchester where terrorist Jihad al Shamie later stabbed a worshipper to death outside a synagogue on 2 October.
Police were so worried about the threat posed by Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein that they established a huge armed operation to protect an undercover operative as he met with the men to determine what they were planning.
The operation followed them as they twice travelled from Greater Manchester to the White Cliffs National Trust nature reserve near Dover, posing as tourists to observe the security checks at the port below where the weapons were to be imported from France.
Saadaoui conducted a surveillance trip around the area of Manchester he planned to attack with the undercover officer known as "Farouk" and told him he wanted to target schools and gatherings, adding: "Young, old, women, elderly, the whole lot, killing them all."
He was caught "red-handed" by police following an undercover sting operation as he took delivery of the first shipment of weapons, supplied and deactivated by police, from the boot of a rented Lexus.
Police bodyworn footage showed him running 20 yards across the car park of the Last Drop, a Lancashire spa hotel, before he was grabbed by armed officers and brought to the ground on 8 May last year.
MI5 believe that Saadaoui had previously been in contact with an extremist called Hamid al Masalkhi from Cardiff, who had left Britain to join ISIS in 2013 but later died from cancer, sources say.
The sentencing judge, Mr Justice Wall, said: "I want to commend Farouk. His is a dangerous and difficult job and he undertook it with great skill and patience. He has potentially saved very many lives by risking his own.
"I am not allowed to know his true identity but I hope these remarks will be passed back to him."
'Largest and most complex' counter-terrorism investigation
Saadaoui, a former hotel entertainer originally from Tunisia, married an English woman called Jane and moved to Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, in 2012 and then to Great Yarmouth, where he worked in the shop at the Haven Holiday Park.
He bought the Albatross Restaurant in the seaside town for £25,000 in April 2018 but closed the business four years later, sold his house in Ipswich Road for £169,000 in May 2023 and moved to Wigan with his second wife, Michelle, and two young children.
He worked briefly at a discount store in Wigan called Bonkers Prices, then gave up work, claimed universal credit and regularly posted statements from ISIS on Facebook.
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However, his postings drew the attention of MI5 and on 28 November 2023, they began an investigation, codenamed Operation Catogenic, described by police as the "largest scale and most complex covert counter-terrorism investigation ever conducted in the North West".
Investigators believe Saadaoui was already preparing to launch an attack. Farouk, the undercover officer, told his bosses he believed Saadaoui would "kill a lot of people" if they did not intervene.
The snow and ice alerts are in force for parts of northern England and Scotland, while most of the rest of England, as well as Wales, are under a separate ice warning.
The warnings come into force between 4pm this afternoon and 8pm this evening, and continue into Saturday.
A separate snow and ice warning for northern parts of England and Scotland will come into force at 9pm on Saturday, running into Sunday morning.
The forecaster warned snow, which may be heavy at times, may cause some disruption to travel, especially over high ground during Saturday night and Sunday morning.
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It comes as a cold health alert from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) began today, covering central and northern areas, and runs until 8am on Monday.
It warns vulnerable people could be at greater risk and of possible "minor impacts" on health services due to increased demand.
Cold weather has already brought road closures to northern England, with the A66 shut between Bowes in County Durham and Brough in Cumbria because of "concentrated snowfall".
National Highways said: "Crews are on scene with winter treatment vehicles working to clear and treat the carriageway, however forecasts predict that snowfall will continue in the area throughout the morning."
The Met Office said an Arctic maritime air mass has brought in the colder conditions.
A weather front bringing more rain, strong winds, and snow is expected to sweep in from the west on Sunday and impact northern areas, it said.
"Outbreaks of rain spreading eastwards on Saturday night will fall as snow initially, even to low levels for a time, before becoming confined to higher ground as milder air arrives from the west," the Met Office said.
"Temporary snow accumulations of 1-3cm will be possible at low levels, with 3-7cm possible above about 150m elevation, and perhaps 10-15cm above 400m."
It said that ice will be another hazard, particularly across north-east England and parts of Scotland where rain could fall on frozen ground leading to "very slippery" conditions.
Chief forecaster Rebekah Hicks said additional warnings may be required and encouraged the public to keep up to date with the latest forecasts.
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More rain is expected on Monday, with the downpours continuing into the second half of next week.
The start to 2026 has brought a parade of gloomy, wet weather due to a "blocking pattern" with 26 weather stations setting new monthly records for rain in January, according to the Met Office.
Northern Ireland also endured its wettest January in 149 years.
Aberdeen, meanwhile, experienced its longest sunless spell since 1957 when it recorded zero hours of sunshine for 21 days in a row. It finally managed to break the spell earlier this week.
Anthony Esan, 25, who was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court, had pleaded guilty to attempted murder and possessing two bladed weapons in January.
The judge said that Esan - who experts agreed had schizophrenia at the time of the attack - would be detained in hospital for as long as necessary.
Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton, who was targeted in the street near Brompton Barracks in Chatham, Kent, in July 2024, told the three day sentencing hearing on Monday he was grateful to be alive.
The assault left him with a large wound to the right side of his neck, stab wounds to the front and back of his chest and abdomen, and more wounds on his lower abdomen, right groin, right upper arm, and left thigh.
The soldier said he was told by medical staff that it was a "miracle" he had survived.
Sentencing Esan, Mr Justice Picken said: "The attack on Mr Teeton was targeted and deliberate.
"You were looking for a soldier with the intention that that soldier should die, as underlined by the fact you had looked up the killing of Lee Rigby on the internet."
Fusilier Rigby, 25, was killed by extremists in 2013 near the Royal Artillery Barracks in southeast London, when he was off duty.
The judge added that Esan's schizophrenia did not absolve him of responsibility for his crime.
He said: "The psychotic disorder is part of the context for the attack but it is not the entire context, since the context also includes the fact that you targeted Mr Teeton, and that you did so having carried out searches in relation to other knife attacks, including most notably the killing of Lee Rigby, another soldier."
He continued: "You are unlikely ever to be released back into the community where there is a risk of reoccurrence."
Speaking outside the court, Lt Col Teeton said: "We welcome the sentence that has been handed to my attacker today as it reflects an incredible bank of evidence gathered by the police and presented by our barrister of the premeditation and planning involved in the attack against myself, an officer wearing British military uniform.
"Knife attacks do not just impact the victim, they impact the families and communities where attacks occur.
"We feel the pain caused by every knife attack that we see on the news, and our thoughts will always be with those affected."
The soldier, a serving officer of 26 years experience, who was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan for two tours each, praised those who helped him, including his wife Eileen, for their "courage".
During the sentencing, the court heard how Mrs Teeton had rushed to a soldier lying on the ground outside the family home, unaware it was her husband.
She had pushed Esan off him before realising he had a knife. She "felt a wave of terror" and that she may need to run for her life, but he chose not to go after her.
In her victim impact statement, Mrs Teeton said her husband asked her in hospital if people at work knew what his attacker had "tried to do to me".
When she asked what Esan had tried to do, he replied: "Cut my head off. Like Lee Rigby."
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Prosecutor Alison Morgan KC called the attack "vicious and deliberate", and told the court that Lt Col Teeton had been targeted because of his appearance as a soldier.
Esan had conducted online searches on knives, a terrorist attack that happened in West Africa, and searched "Woolwich soldier murdered", which Ms Morgan said was a reference to the 2013 attack.
Ms Morgan said Esan had asked Lt Col Teeton if he could borrow his phone because his moped had broken down and he needed to call for assistance.
Nigeria-born Esan, who moved to the UK in 2009, then used two knives to inflict multiple stab wounds when Lt Col Teeton was distracted.
Detective Inspector Lee Neiles, from Kent Police, said the attacker was an "extremely dangerous man" who wanted to kill, regardless of the impact on his victim's family and friends, and the wider community.
He said: "Esan has provided no explanation or motive for his actions, but the evidence shows that he was intent on killing a uniformed soldier."
Esan had made several failed attempts to join the British Army, including in 2021 when he was rejected for "psychotic disorder" and eczema, having reported to mental health services the year before that he was hearing voices.
The hospital stated that it had seen "significant demand" on services in the last week, particularly in A&E, which had resulted in patients suffering "unacceptable and lengthy waits" in corridors.
Andrew Hall, Chief Operating Officer at NUH, said: "We have been working tirelessly all week to mitigate the pressures we are currently seeing but this has not had the desired impact, and so we declaring a critical incident is necessary to protect patient safety".
Mr Hall apologised to patients in the hospitals who had experienced long waiting times.
The NUH boss said patients who could safely return home were staying in hospital longer than they needed to - with the hospital hoping to send 200 patients home by the end of Friday.
He urged families and carers to prioritise getting patients home - even if this meant having to leave work early.
The hospitals have reported a significant increase in patients with respiratory issues, which they stated had caused pressure on A&E capacity.
More than half of the adult beds at the hospitals are currently taken by patients who are over 80. A demographic whose health issues impact them more than those of younger patients.
The hospitals have asked staff to work additional shifts and are creating more bed space for patients to try and support flow through the hospitals.
Mr Hall warned that people should "consider carefully whether or not you need to attend A&E".
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Benjamin Netanyahu had barely landed back in Tel Aviv when his friend in the White House was launching a stinging attack upon the man at the top of Israeli politics.
No, not Netanyahu, who Donald Trump continues to treat as a close friend.
No, the target of Trump's ire was Israel's president, Isaac Herzog.
The American leader said that Herzog should be "ashamed of himself" for failing to pardon Netanyahu, who hasn't actually been convicted of anything.
Netanyahu certainly has been accused of crimes by the courts in Israel, namely bribery, fraud and breach of trust. The criminal action against him has been rolling on for nearly six years, interrupted constantly by delays and excuses.
The Israeli prime minister has regularly failed to turn up for court, citing the argument that running his country takes up a lot of his time.
He always maintained that he wanted to prove his innocence in court, but then, at the end of last year, he formally requested a pardon for the charges.
He said the case had become a distraction; his opponents insisted that "only the guilty ask for a pardon".
By this time, Trump had already laid the ground, making it clear that he thought a pardon was deserved.
As a president who has issued pardons to the best part of 2,000 people, charged or convicted, over the past year, he might think it's a pretty straightforward job. The Israeli president seems to disagree.
Herzog issued a statement that made it clear that the legal process behind the decision was long and unwieldy, and that he couldn't just make up his mind for himself.
He also said he "deeply appreciates President Trump", the man who had just told Herzog he should be ashamed of himself.
It's hard to imagine what level of insult it would take for an Israeli politician to actually publicly condemn Trump, but we're not there yet.
But there are tensions.
This was Netanyahu's sixth visit to Washington DC since Trump's return to office, but it was the lowest profile.
He arrived with no fanfare, and there was no press conference after the meeting.
The nuances were clear, though.
Netanyahu, along with colleagues in the Israeli cabinet, is worried that the Americans will end up going soft on Iran, giving them a deal on nuclear enrichment, easing sanctions and doing nothing to limit their arsenal of ballistic missiles or their control of proxies, including Hamas, Hezbollah in Lebanon or the Houthis in Yemen.
"I will not hide from you that I expressed general scepticism about the nature of any agreement with Iran," said Netanyahu, possibly the most critical comment he has ever made about Trump.
Moments later, as if to mollify the American, he described him as "a great friend of the State of Israel, who was like no other".
There is no hiding the schism that now lies between these two countries, for so long, so allied.
Israel is desperate for action against Iran's growing stockpile of missiles, America is focused on stopping nuclear enrichment.
JD Vance has poured a lot of cold water on the US taking military action, fearful of American casualties should Iran respond by targeting the country's various bases in the Middle East.
Which, almost certainly, it would.
Israel, behind the scenes, is making plans for what would happen if it felt it had to take unilateral action, and that still needs the buy-in of Trump's administration.
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Even if the Americans don't actually fire the weapons, for instance, would they be prepared to restock the missiles that are crucial to Israel's Iron Dome air defence system?
You'd assume the answer is yes, but do we know that for sure?
But Netanyahu must tread carefully.
He has a general election later this year, and he is certainly not guaranteed to be prime minister beyond it.
He is not only facing criminal charges in Israel, but he is also indicted on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court.
There are many countries he cannot visit for fear of being arrested.
Israel's prime minister is a pariah in the eyes of many, with very, very few high-profile diplomatic friends, other than one - the most powerful man in the world.