The "core" of a major terrorism trial can be held in secret – but the case must start and end in public and the defendants may be identified, the Court of Appeal decided today.

The decision means that the defendants, who had been anonymised as AB and CD, can be named as Erol Incedal and Mounir Rarmoul-Bohhadjar.

Media organisations had contested the "unprecedented" decision by Mr Justice Nicol last month at the Old Bailey that the pending trial of two defendants identified only as AB and CD should be held entirely in secret, with the press and public barred .