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into an unusually high rate of infant deaths at a hospital in chester. rolf harris will be out of prison on bail tomorrow, and will attend his latest trial, on charges of indecent assault. and we report on the worst examples of packaging waste and why they re difficult to recycle. it s 5 o clock. our main story is that theresa may has launched the conservative manifesto. she says politicians need to be upfront and straight about the challenges ahead. the prime minister chose to unveil the manifesto in halifax in west yorkshire, and warned that if the next government failed to negotiate a good deal on brexit, the consequences for britain would be dire. among the policies is sweeping change to the way social care will be funded in england. for the first time, the value of someone‘s property would be included in the means test for care at home. there would be a so called double lock to protect the state pension, replacing the triple lock which expires in 2020. an ....
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 a ....
and hitting pedestrians causing multiple casualties on london bridge, around half a dozen. shortly afterwards, reports of a series of stabbings at borough markets, close to london bridge. that is where we are, at one of the many police cordons thrown up around london bridge and in the borough markets area around central london. i am joined by tom symons, who has been following events as they unfold. what do we know so far? as you know well, when we speak to witnesses in these situations, they tell us what they saw. we are getting reports that a fitting together into a narrative of what happened here. we are looking at the van crashing potentially into pedestrians on the southern end of london bridge. i was told it was just outside a pub near the london bridge station where people would have been going after a night out. several people jumped out of the van and ran into borough markets, a food market with bars and restau ra nts markets, a food market with bars and restau ....
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 what s going on, running from the scene, if something is happening, hiding and telling the police, reporting what is going on, that s very important so they ve 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 advi ....
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 da ....