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Ilyas Akhtar, aged 20, is accused of series of arson attacks and bomb hoax in Slough

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A man has been charged with preparing a terror act after allegedly carrying out a bomb hoax at Asda and an arson attack at a family ice rink in Slough.

Ilyas Akhtar, aged 20, is accused of preparing acts of terrorism, possessing information useful to terrorists, and carrying out two arson attacks and causing a bomb hoax in Slough in recent weeks.