Investigations are expected to last three weeks as experts scour the properties for links to the 2005 attacks which claimed the lives of 52 people.

Life in the street was slowly returning to normal yesterday, 24 hours after Scotland Yard officers swooped at the property on Shepherd's Lane.
The Al Mu'min Islamic gift centre which stands beside the property was re-opened for business as usual and the crowds which had gathered in the hours after the raids had disappeared.

An Eastern European family living at the address were moved to a hotel and house-to-house enquires were carried out by officers who showed neighbours pictures of the four West Yorkshire-born bombers

The painstaking efforts of forensics team got underway behind the locked wooden enclosure thrown up around the entrance property on the morning of Wednesday's raid.

Wajid Hussain, owner of the property, revealed how he owns another property - a bedsit on Chapeltown Road - which was identified as a meeting place for the suicide bombers three years ago.