Three Bradford University students charged under the Terrorism Act have been remanded in custody after their bail applications were refused by a District Judge.

Aitzaz Zafar, 19, Usman Malik, 20, and Awaab Iqbal, 19, have all been charged with possessing a record of information likely to be useful to a person involved in terrorism.

Their solicitors made unsuccessful bail applications to District Judge Timothy Workman when they appeared before Bow Street Magistrates' Court in central London yesterday.

Zafar, Malik and Iqbal were arrested and taken to London after a raid at a rented house they shared in Grove Terrace, Bradford, near to the university buildings, on Thursday, March 2, by Metropolitan Police anti-terrorism officers.

District Judge Workman adjourned their cases until Thursday, April 6, when committal proceedings are expected to take place.

A schoolboy, whose arrest led to the Bradford raids and who is also charged under the Terrorism Act, was granted bail when he appeared before the same court yesterday.

Irfan Raja, 18, is accused of making a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

Following a lengthy application for bail, District Judge Workman told Raja, of Ilford, Essex, that the boy was being granted bail.

The prosecution's immediate appeal against the decision was dismissed when Raja's family offered a large surety.

The bail conditions given by District Judge Workman included surety of £25,000.

Raja must also wear an electronic tag and be required to live and sleep each night at his home address in Holcombe Road, Ilford.

He must observe a curfew between the hours of 5pm and 8am and to report daily to Ilford Police Station between 4pm and 5pm and surrender his passport.

Raja, a bespectacled sixth-form student, was arrested on Monday, February 27, after attending a police station by appointment.

The charge against him relates to information that he allegedly collated and downloaded using a computer on to three discs.