SEVERAL cargo planes have been grounded at separate US airports after suspicious packages were found on board planes in London and Dubai.

The investigations are at Newark in New Jersey and Philadelphia and the planes have been taken to remote locations to be searched.

It has been reported that a bombs had been discovered on UPS flights to Chicago from Yemen. It is believed that an ink cartridge for a printer had been converted into a bomb on board a plane at East Midlands Airport near Derby.