Thought about, not just something they threw together tonight. The advice is sometimes a little bit different, it involves fighting back. At the official advice here is to get out of the area and tell the police. If you cannot get out, then hide. It shows they want to get that message across directly to the public because the way Police Communications work these days is to talk directly via twitter and social media to the public, and not worry about what people like me will say in reporting what the police say. Speak directly to the public and hope that people can get on with a life of a cell. Happens around them. That was our Home Affairs Correspondent talking to me earlier on. Since then we have learned from the Assistant Commissioner that six people have died in these Terror Attacks. We are at the cordon here and it is much calmer than it was a few hours ago but you can still see a lot of police down towards the end of the road. We are quite near the shard here as dawn breaks across
Dedicated to ideas that never took off. The museum of failure. Good morning. Its june 8th. Iam i am annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Polling stations are open across the country as millions of people go to cast their votes in the general election. Theyll close at 10pm this evening, with the first results due before midnight. Police say therell be increased security at some Polling Stations with Armed Officers in some areas. Joining me now from westminster is our Political Correspondent alicia mccarthy. And intensive seven Week Campaign and now people get to go and cast their votes, tech as to what has been happening. 50 days since mps voted to hold the selection and finally, today is the day. Polling stations will be open for another 11 hours. We have seen theresa may, tim farron, nicola sturgeon, jeremy corbyn, they have all been out to vote so far. We are electing 650 mps. We have got 3301 candidates standing in the selection. 986 of those women. The polls dont close unt
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London, our other headlines three french students were among the injured in the attack. The french Prime Minister has promised his full support for the victims. And the british Prime Minister theresa may came out into Downing Street to make a statement shortly after holding a government emergency meeting. I have just chaired a meeting of the governments emergency committee, cobra, following the sick and depraved Terrorist Attack on the streets of our capital, this afternoon. Welcome from westminster, where it has been a horrifying and bloody day. Four people are dead at the end of it. Including it seems the assailant. And a Police Officer who was stabbed at the gates of the Palace Of Westminster. Before that, a vehicle driven across Westminster Bridge careered into a number of people on the bridge and injured at least 20 of them. It killed two. 20 people injured and a number of them still in hospital tonight, at Saint Thomases in kings college. The Prime Minister has been sharing a mee