Near London Bridge. Tom symonds. Police have put in a large cordon. You can see the furthest blue, flashing light, a short distance from the Borough Markets area. Are market is a Farmers Market where people go for lunch. It is surrounded by bars and restaurants. It is opposite London Bridge station where people go to head home after a night out in Central London. Putting together eyewitness reports, only eyewitness reports, which can be wrong, but the eyewitnesses we spoke to say a van ploughed into people on the southern end of London Bridge, i was told by people in a pub that it was told by people in a pub that it was on the corner of the bridge, that grey, possibly four man, got out, armed with knives. Three, possible four men,. One was mediterranean in terms of skin colour and had a black and red top on and had a long knife. I asked if it was a breadknife sized weapon and the eyewitness said he felt it was a long kitchen knife. They ran towards London Bridge and, sorry, Borough Mar
A sustained gunfight with terrorists, not that that happened this time, but if it did. And they have changed procedures to be able to. Moving vehicle. Before, they had the it gives you an indication of the it gives you an indication of the level of Training Offices are going through to deal with things like this. People having to get used to these attacks, paris, nice, the list goes on . The police have said very little, perhaps a little less, met police, when parliament was attacked by khalid masood. They have said they need people to remain calm, vigilant and alert and they have put out the advice about being aware of whats going on, running from the scene, if something is happening, hiding and telling the police, reporting what is going on, thats very important so theyve put that advice out. It shows they are trying to get those messages out. Quite dramatic advice . , yes and quite dramatic advice . , yes and quite dramatic advice . , yes and quite dramatic advice but thoughtful. Th
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