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24 July 2011
Last updated at 20:26 ET
A UK police officer has gone to Norway to help the inquiry into the country's terror attacks, Scotland Yard has said.
Anders Behring Breivik has admitted carrying out the bombing in Olso and Utoeya island youth camp shootings on Friday which killed at least 93 people.
According UK press reports, he referred to a British mentor called "Richard" in a 1,500-page online manifesto.
Foreign Secretary William Hague said the UK National Security Council would meet on Monday to discuss the attacks.
Extremists claim Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian with far-right links, is the main suspect for the attacks.
He said he planted the bomb which killed seven people in central Oslo and later carried out a massacre of 85 people at a youth camp on Utoeya. An 86th person died in hospital on Sunday.
Breivik described his actions as "gruesome but necessary" and said he would explain himself at a court hearing on Monday.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the force was liaising with the Norwegian authorities.
In the manifesto, written in English, Breivik claimed he was recruited by two English right-wing extremists at a meeting in the UK in 2002, which seven other people attended.
'Firearms controls' Speaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hague said the National Security Council would "look at the lessons to be learned" from the attacks in Norway.
"We will check that enough attention is being given to all forms of terrorism," Mr Hague said.
He added: "We have tight firearms controls in Britain and very tight controls on the sale of material needed to manufacture a bomb, and we have the most highly professionally trained firearms officers in the world, and we have the police and intelligence agencies working well together in making sure, best as we can, that the country is safe from attacks."
Mr Hague said al-Qaeda terrorism remained the main threat to the UK.
He said the current terrorism threat level to the UK was "substantial", meaning "there is a possibility of an attack and an attack without warning".
'Express sympathies' Association of Chief Police Officers president Sir Hugh Orde told the same programme that the police and government had already run a "major exercise" to prepare for an attack similar to that which took place in Norway.
He said this was done in order to "keep ahead of the game".
Flowers and candles have been placed outside the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London where its flag has been flying at half-mast.
An embassy spokesman said: "People have come to the embassy to express their sympathies. I read some of the notes they left and some were in Norwegian but most were in English."
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Anders Behring Breivik has admitted carrying out the bombing in Olso and Utoeya island youth camp shootings on Friday which killed at least 93 people.
According UK press reports, he referred to a British mentor called "Richard" in a 1,500-page online manifesto.
Foreign Secretary William Hague said the UK National Security Council would meet on Monday to discuss the attacks.
Extremists claim Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian with far-right links, is the main suspect for the attacks.
He said he planted the bomb which killed seven people in central Oslo and later carried out a massacre of 85 people at a youth camp on Utoeya. An 86th person died in hospital on Sunday.
Breivik described his actions as "gruesome but necessary" and said he would explain himself at a court hearing on Monday.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the force was liaising with the Norwegian authorities.
In the manifesto, written in English, Breivik claimed he was recruited by two English right-wing extremists at a meeting in the UK in 2002, which seven other people attended.
'Firearms controls' Speaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hague said the National Security Council would "look at the lessons to be learned" from the attacks in Norway.
"We will check that enough attention is being given to all forms of terrorism," Mr Hague said.
He added: "We have tight firearms controls in Britain and very tight controls on the sale of material needed to manufacture a bomb, and we have the most highly professionally trained firearms officers in the world, and we have the police and intelligence agencies working well together in making sure, best as we can, that the country is safe from attacks."
Mr Hague said al-Qaeda terrorism remained the main threat to the UK.
He said the current terrorism threat level to the UK was "substantial", meaning "there is a possibility of an attack and an attack without warning".
'Express sympathies' Association of Chief Police Officers president Sir Hugh Orde told the same programme that the police and government had already run a "major exercise" to prepare for an attack similar to that which took place in Norway.
He said this was done in order to "keep ahead of the game".
Flowers and candles have been placed outside the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London where its flag has been flying at half-mast.
An embassy spokesman said: "People have come to the embassy to express their sympathies. I read some of the notes they left and some were in Norwegian but most were in English."
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