The UK is facing a "smouldering" terror threat level with children as young as 10 accessing extreme online material, one of the country's most senior counter-terrorism officers has warned.

Far from being perturbed by this prospect, Azi seemed excited at the thought that out of the smouldering ashes of democracy, new kings would emerge: corporate dictators ruling over their networked empires.

Images released over the weekend of the devastation in the famous tourist town in Jasper National Park show homes and businesses smouldering and burned down to their foundations.

"My best guess would be that there has been a smouldering fire inside a cavity from the night before," Jens Kastvig, a fire adviser at Copenhagen Fire Engineering, told Danish national broadcaster DR.

The grass is smouldering before a marshal appears with a fire extinguisher to put it out completely.