The horrific attacks on London came terrifyingly close to home on Monday when police raided two flats in Curtis House, New Southgate.

Residents peered anxiously through their windows as anti-terror police uncovered what may prove to be a haul of explosives in the flat belonging to suspected bomber Yassin Hassan Omar.

Curtis House was duddbed the 'little block of horrors' in 2001 after the Independent highlighted the tower block's problems with security, vandalism and the macabre discovery of a coffin in the stairwell.

But nobody expected Curtis House to emerge as the base for one or more would-be suicide bombers.

People living in the block are clearly shocked by the revelations that one of their neighbours is among the four most wanted men in Britain, as is the rest of Enfield.

The borough's leading politicians have called for calm, vigilance and solidarity as terror and paranoia threatens to grip the capital.

It is a call we should all head, to send out the message once and again that terrorism can, and will, be beaten.