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Good evening and are very warm welcome to a special edition of BBC

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London News. You join us inch fibre Square where you can probably see

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hundreds and hundreds have gathered for a vigil to remember the victims

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of yesterday's terror attack. The mood here tonight I would say is it

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feels sombre, it feels calm, reflective, a stark contrast to the

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chaos and terror that unfolded in Westminster. Looking around, it is

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avian visual representation, if you like, of the city, people from all

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backgrounds, ages, nationalities, religions, all coming together to

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pay tribute to those who lost their lives and also to reflect the spirit

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of this city, that same spirit that saw the bravery of a police officer,

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who gave his life in the line of duty to protect others, saw an MP

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coming to his aid to try to save his life, the kindness of strangers and

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passers-by who stopped to help, and that sought medical staff rushed in

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to help those that were injured. We have been hearing from some of the

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first medical staff that were on the scene and, remember, at that moment,

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they didn't know the scale of the attack and didn't know what they

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would be faced with. When we were overhead,

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it became relatively quickly evident Um, we could see a number

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of casualties on the bridge. It was very busy, it was still

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developing when I got there, some emergency services were already

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on the scene, a lot of members of the public, and people

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from nearby premises, We don't know if we're going to be

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treating adults or children. We don't know if we are likely to be

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treating people with... many people with minor injuries,

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or people with catastrophic imminently life-threatening

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injuries. There were a group of patients

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had some very serious injuries and they were taken to hospital

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as quickly as possible as a priority and some walking wounded

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that needed support. There was a lot of people

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there as well that were not injured but were clearly affected

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by the circumstances and we had It's our responsibility to ensure

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that everything is done to give them the best possible chance

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of survival, so that sometimes means aggressive hospital-style clinical

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treatment at the roadside, Our patients are not...

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they don't yet looks like patients, it's quite graphic,

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patients are often in pain, they're in their own clothes,

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on the street, or in their homes, or wherever we're called to,

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and so that can be quite shocking. You see people really

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at their most vulnerable, probably having the worst day

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of their lives, and, um, that's rather different

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to receiving a patient in hospital, who has perhaps already

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been packaged somewhat. I think, because we train so well

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for it, and work alongside the police and fire betrayed

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and scenarios, it felt very much like a scenario,

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which means you can just get And today, when you look back

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at it, a bit surreal? We are all proud of the actions that

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might colleagues took and the emergency services took

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at the scene yesterday. There aren't many jobs that

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you go to on the ambulance You tend to retain them in some way

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or other and, you know, we feel very sorry for our patients,

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but we feel pleased that we are able to take a sophisticated

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advanced trauma service to them And we have been hearing over the

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last 24 hours huge praise for the emergency services and, just to give

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you a sense of the strength of feeling, we have been hearing that

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London Air Ambulance had donations pouring in. I think around ?10,000

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just in the last 24 hours. Huge gratitude across London for the

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emergency services. Let me turn to the Finnish

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ambassador to the UK, who has joined us, Sylvie Brennan. -- the French

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Ambassador. France understands only too well how Londoners feeling at

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the moment? Yes, absolutely. And yesterday I thought once again, so

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I'm very sorry, very saddened, but horrific events, and we wanted to

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show solidarity, that is the reason why the Minister of foreign affairs

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said this morning, not only to see the victims, the young French

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pupils, but also to dock with the Mayor of London, to thank him, and

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he attended the session at the House of Commons when Theresa May was

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talking about the events. And why was it so important for you to be

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here this evening? How would you describe the mood? Because

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precisely, I was the after the events at Charlie Hebdo, and we

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received so much solidarity from the British people, so it was important

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to show solidarity, and also to thank everyone, of course the

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emergency service is and policemen, but also the medical services,

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surgeons who operated, and the young French pupils. And what advice would

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you give to Londoners this evening question that I can't give any

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advice. I think our government is cooperating, especially on terrorist

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issues,, they are shedding intelligence, -- sharing

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intelligence, and this is very important. Thank you for your time

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this evening, we appreciate it. Earlier, when the vigil was going

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on, one key message was we should stand together to move forward and

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there were claps across the square as that went out. Let's hear from

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people who were down. Victoria Hollins is amongst the crowd. -- who

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were there. Yes, yesterday's attack was

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described as the global attack, victims from more than eight

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different countries affected by what happened, and the response he feels

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like a global response, Londoners of course, but people from all over the

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world to pay respects, some lighting candles and putting down flowers.

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Let's talk to some of those. Jess first of all, you were caught up in

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what happened yesterday? Yes, I was near the bridge areas where one of

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my closest friends, and we were caught up in the aftermath. I didn't

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get to see the actual thing but was got up in the chaos. What did it

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mean for you to be here today? Why? I needed closure to move on and as a

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country and with the people of London. Matthew, as a Londoner, why

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do you want to be here? Is there a message you want to go from London?

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Yes, that we are a country and city of diversity, all races, religions,

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genders, and even if people cause terror attacks and try to destroy

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democracy and our way of life we will come out in our license and

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stand together. Will you live your lives any differently? I don't think

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so, but I have always lived as a proud Londoner. I think it is just a

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wake-up call. I have never experienced this kind of death or

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witnessed such the tragedy so it is a wake-up call, teach me how to

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handle these things in the future. Thank you. And one other person, is

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visiting from Australia, what do you make of what you have seen this

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evening? Is beautiful to see all these people coming together. Kind

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of ironic that you have such an awful act of terror that is designed

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to draw people apart but it does the opposite and you have people coming

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together with this powerful show of force. People standing up saying

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that we are all in the same team. It is beautiful. Thank you very much,

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all of you. Westminster Bridge got back to normal pretty quickly and

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the message seems to be from Londoners today that the city itself

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will also get back to normal. Victoria, that is what I have been

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hearing as well. People that I have been speaking to. We can turn for a

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moment to security. We had that it would be enhanced as a precautionary

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and reassuring measure for Londoners. Well home affairs

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correspondent Nick Beake reports on what it was like to be a firearms

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officer on the front line and police presence in London.

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We were told to expect more police on the streets.

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Others were armed only with the knowledge of London geography.

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So how should this attack change security in our city?

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Bob Broadhurst had the awesome responsibility of keeping

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Do we need to make huge changes? I don't think so.

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I think what yesterday showed is just how easy it is now

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for a terrorist just to jump into an ordinary car

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We don't want to become a police state.

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We don't want, you know, to be locked away from our city.

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Bob, so many of the flags today flying at half-mast,

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but in the days ahead, there will be questions

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about the fact that the police and the security service

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Do you think that criticism will be justified?

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I mean, flags fly at half-mast shows the nation's respect,

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and I think the nation now needs to respect what the police do.

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There will be dozens, probably hundreds of people,

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that the police are looking at, potential suspects, many of them

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The attack here has raised questions over just how well Parliament

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and the rest of London is protected from a terror attack,

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and it's likely to reignite that debate over whether there should be

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was cleared of murder after shooting dead a suspect 12 years ago.

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We live in a society where all police officers

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It might be five years down the road or ten years down the road.

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But if you want people with guns to be able to stop

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an attack of this nature, or simply to stop

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any form of armed criminality, I don't think it's fair to ask

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unarmed police officers to continue to do that for much longer.

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on having an overwhelmingly unarmed police force.

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Yesterday's attacker was eventually shot dead by a plainclothes

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close protection officer who carried a gun.

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While they are highly trained and they spend many hours

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on the range and doing tactical training and medical training

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and all the other things - driver training, all the other

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things that bodyguards do - he almost certainly wasn't coming

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to work yesterday thinking, "Today's the day that I'm going to have

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Keeping London safe is a complicated business,

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and the Metropolitan Police are playing many roles tonight.

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Protectors, investigators, but also mourners.

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Nick Beake, BBC London News, Westminster.

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Let's speak to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who joins us. Thank you

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for being with us this evening. Huge praise, claps when you were talking

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about not being cowed to terrorism. What goes through your mind on a day

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like today? We plan and prepare for events like yesterday all year round

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and one of the reasons I can say with confidence we have the best

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Police Service and security services and emergency services in the world

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is because I have seen the preparation that takes place and

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just like terrorists evolve and find new ways to harm us, we have to find

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new ways to protect ourselves and you hope and pray days like

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yesterday don't happen and then you got to make sure your react in a

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responsible manner. Today is about Londoners coming together and

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visitors and showing those evil and twisted individuals they are not

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going to divide us, they will not destroy our way of life or shared

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values. And we see that with the numbers here tonight. I was on the

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Underground today and saw a father trying to explain to his young sons

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what was going on and it brought home to me that there is a whole

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generation that was either too young or was not born when 7/7 happened so

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this is their first terrorist attack in London? One of the things we have

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to remember is, in previous decades, London has been the victim and

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target of terrorists. This is not new, I'm afraid, to the great city,

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and the reason white terrorists want to Hamas hit the fact that they are

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in London all religions -- -- they want to harm us because they hit the

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fact that we respect and embrace each other, all religions, and

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London has shown resilience, has not allowed terrorists to divide our key

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amenities and we will not allow that now either. Sadiq Khan, thank you

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for joining us on BBC London News tonight.

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That was the mayor, with a defiant message to the terrorists.

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And many people have had the same centre missed -- same sentiments and

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also spoke of their sadness but resilience and defiance that

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terrorism must not win, echoing the Prime Minister's words that we heard

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tonight. Tolu Adeoye reports on the determination that it would be

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business as usual here in London. THERESA MAY: Londoners,

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and others from around the world who have come here to visit this

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great city, will get up and go They will board their trains,

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they will leave their hotels, they will walk these streets,

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they will live their lives. This morning, as the Prime Minister

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had said, London carried on. There were, of course,

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signs of yesterday's attack, but those we spoke to on

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the morning commute were resilient. You mustn't let, you know,

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fear govern your life, I'm sure everyone today would

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feel more up to it than ever. Journalism students

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from the University of Sheffield were visiting Parliament yesterday

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as the attack unfolded. Today, they carried on with

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their London visit as planned. I think it's kind of changed

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how I feel about terrorism and it makes it so much more real,

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but it's not changed the fact that you could be anywhere in the world,

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it could happen anywhere, it's not changed me

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wanting to come to London. It's just sad, isn't it?

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I'm not scared. This is a city that has

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been attacked before. Adam remembers the

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aftermath of 7/7 well. The city came together then

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and he says this latest attack It's a horrible thing that happened,

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you don't want to become accustomed I've always been brought up here,

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so no, it doesn't worry me. I can see, I can imagine it would

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worry some people, but no, not me. You just get on?

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Yeah, I do. Certain areas were

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quieter than usual. The London Eye, one of a handful

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of attractions which shut for a time, but thousands

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of tourists still enjoyed the landmarks that had attracted

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them to the capital. In Covent Garden, we meant a family

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who arrived on holiday from Israel yesterday.

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They had this message for Londoners. The only way to fight terrorism,

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of any kind, is not to be afraid, is not to stay home,

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is not to be frightened of everything, is to go out

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and to live your life and to give a message that nothing will stop

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London, nothing will stop Britain, As people here paid tribute to those

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that lost their lives yesterday, one London club is paying its own

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tribute to the officer who was killed in the line of duty

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yesterday. PC Keith Palmer was a long season

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and ticket holder of Charlton football club. Chris Slegg is at the

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club ground for us and can tell us more.

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Yes, when PC Keith Palmer was not on duty, he spent a lot of his free

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time on match days here at The Valley. Club records show he had a

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season ticket for at least the last 12 years. Possibly longer. So he

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clearly was a passionate supporter of the South London club and, when

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his name was made public yesterday, when that first picture was

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circulated, understandably there was an outpouring of emotion amongst

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Charlton fans on social media and club message boards, and the club

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said they would like to pay tribute and have done that, as a mark of

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respect, leaving a Charlton scarf over his seat, high up in the East

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stand, seat 166, on row CC, and that will stay until the game against MK

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Dons. Earlier, I spoke to the club journalist, who summed up the mood

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here. We've had plenty of messages

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from fans and seen messages online, people that had sat next to him,

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behind him, I've walked past him plenty of times,

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I may not have spoken to him, but that's what people are saying -

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they recognised him - and it does... Obviously, the news was horrendous,

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no matter what, It strikes, you know,

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England as a nation, um, but when you know

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it's one of your own, it kind of makes it closer

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to home, doesn't it? And it's...

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Yeah, it's devastating, really. And a statement from PC Palmer's

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family tonight reads, he will be remembered as a wonderful dad,

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husband, son, dad and uncle, wonderful supporter of Charlton,

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friend to everyone who knew him, which certainly comes across here.

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One message I read simply said, RIP Keith, thanks for protecting us.

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That showing of unity from Charlton, and people showing that, coming from

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as far as India and New Zealand. As this report shows.

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Messages on social media today have been clear,

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as have videos of support from famous Londoners,

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gathering hundreds of thousands of views in just a few hours.

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If this act of terrorism was supposed to divide

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the people of London, I know for a fact that all something

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like this does is bring them closer together as one.

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Tonight, we send our heartfelt thoughts to everybody in Britain.

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And from Adele, during her concert in New Zealand...

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All I want to do today is just be at home and be with my friends

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and family at one time, but there are four people who aren't

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fine, so let's dedicate this to them tonight and to my home town.

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From all around the world, shows of solidarity.

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From the union flag projected on to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate

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tonight, to lights out at the Eiffel Tower,

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Back in the capital, messages from Underground staff

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Announcement boards at Tube stations are being used to give uplifting

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messages to commuters today, like this one here at Tower Hill.

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It's one of the most popular on social media,

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having been liked and shared thousands of times.

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Others include these in Tooting Beck and Richmond.

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The images and slogans used today to share thoughts online capture

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A sentiment shared this morning by the Prime Minister.

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And if you have any messages or signs of support and solidarity you

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would like to share, or to take a look at, go to our Facebook page,

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lots going on there and you can of course join in the conversation.

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Time to get a check on the weather. Thank you. We had the early rain

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because of low pressure but high pressure brings in settled

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conditions for the weekend. The rain is close to the south coast and the

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region overnight. And tightly packed isobars mean it will be very windy.

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It is also quite chilly in that wind. We started to date with a lot

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of cloud because of low pressure but the sun came out for many parts

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across the region during this afternoon. Thank you for these

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Weather Watchers pictures. But the rain is to the west of us at the

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moment. Zooming in, there are some good breaks in the cloud, it is hard

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for about cloud nudges in going through this evening and overnight.

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It looks like it will be clear for most and drier than last night. It

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skirts with Southern counties however. So it will be chilly. Going

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through into tomorrow, we've got some good spells of sunshine. Quite

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a cloudy start, keen breeze, also quite grey for some, the breeze

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should then ease, and it should hopefully feel more comfortable,

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12-13 Celsius tomorrow, more sunshine from earlier on and we keep

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the same weather through Saturday. High pressure building so we've got

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north-westerly wind, still keen, not feeling particularly one, it is

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still March, but the sun is getting stronger, similar temperatures into

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Sunday, so the weekend and indeed tomorrow looking dry and less windy,

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warm sunshine but cold and frosty nights.

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Helen, thank you. And before we go, some final thoughts from Nick Beake,

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home affairs correspondent, because you were in Westminster yesterday,

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here with us today. I would use some things up? That is acquired the

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critic, politicians alongside priests alongside paramedics, people

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standing together, -- that is a feeling of quiet. And looking at the

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people gathering here today, it is a reflection of the diversity of our

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city and sadly we've seen once again in the people affected by this the

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numbers involved. Thank you very much indeed. I think everyone here

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would echo what Nick said but for now, that is all from us in

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Trafalgar Square, thank you for

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