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The former chief prosecutor for the CPS in the North West says that concerns of an Easter exodus of radicalised pupils heading to Syria to fight with Islamic State are "very, very real".

Nazir Afzal said that he'd spoken to the leaders of two London secondary schools who were "scared of Easter".

"In relation to the two I spoke to, more than a dozen parents had approached them in the period of a four week window from half-term through to the beginning of March," he said.

"They are worried that some of the children, some of the people they have care of, will not be there when they return from the Easter break and that must worry us all," he added.