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• Terror attack could have been prevented if police at Parliament's 'weak spot' had kept gate bolted, MPs said

  22-03-2017 23:54
  
  The terrorist attack on Parliament could have been prevented if police on duty at a well-known security “weak spot” had simply kept it bolted, MPs have said.Known as Carriage Gates, it is always manned by two police officers, who usually leave it slightly ajar because it is in frequent use.Mary Creagh, the MP for Wakefield, said: “It’s a terrible, terrible day for Parliament, the one weak spot on our estate is those carriage gates.
  
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• London attack: First picture of PC Keith Palmer stabbed to death in Parliament terror attack

  22-03-2017 23:54
  
  The police officer killed in the Parliament terror attack has been named as Keith Palmer, a 48-year-old husband and father.Scotland Yard confirmed Mr Palmer was one of five killed in the attack, with a further 40 people injured, including three officers.The man mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before knifing Mr Palmer, who was guarding Westminster Palace as part of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command.
  
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• London attack: Death toll rises to five after Westminster terror incident

  22-03-2017 23:27
  
  The death toll from the Westminster terror attack has risen to five, police have said.Mr Rowley named the slain officer as 48-year-old PC Keith Palmer, a member of the Parliamentary and diplomatic protection command.
  
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• Keith Palmer: Policeman stabbed to death in London terror attack named

  22-03-2017 23:26
  
  The policeman stabbed to death in the grounds of the Palace of Westminster has been named as husband and father Keith Palmer.The 48-year-old officer had served in the Metropolitan Police Service for 15 years and was a member of the specialist parliamentary and diplomatic protection command.Speaking outside Scotland Yard, acting deputy commissioner Mark Rowley, the Met's top anti-terror officer, said: "Today in Westminster we saw tragic events unfold and our thoughts are with those who lost loved
  
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• London attack: 'Sick and depraved' terrorist kills three including police officer before being shot outside Parliament

  22-03-2017 23:08
  
  Four dead including police officer and London terrorist 20 hurt after being mowed down by car on Westminster Bridge Attacker shot by police as he rushes at Palace of Westminster Witnesses describe Asian man in 40s with eight-inch long knife Pictured: Hero MP battles to save life of stabbed police officer Three French teenagers feared to be among bridge victims 'Solidarity with our British friends': World reacts with shock Telegraph reporter: It was a bang, followed by a
  
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• Marine A case has dented the confidence of troops on the battlefield, comrade says

  22-03-2017 23:00
  
  Sergeant Rob Driscoll, who was leading a nearby patrol when Sergeant Alexander Blackman, 42, shot a wounded Taliban insurgent, said he he did not understand why the Marine had been "so badly treated".There are young lads still in the Marines that will have these considerations to make and I am not sure how that will effect our operational capability.
  
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• Donald Trump Jr called 'a disgrace' for tweet goading London mayor

  22-03-2017 22:57
  
  Donald Trump Jr is facing a backlash for criticizing London mayor Sadiq Khan with a scornful tweet sent hours after an attack at the Houses of Parliament left four dead, including a police officer.“You have to be kidding me?!” Trump Jr tweeted, quoting the headline: “Terror attacks are part of living in big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khan”.
  
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• Abu Izzadeen's brother says he is still in prison and not London attacker

  22-03-2017 22:57
  
  The man initially named as the attacker who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a police officer outside Parliament is in fact still in prison for an unrelated matter, his brother has said.The brother of Abu Izzadeen, formerly known as Trevor Brooks, called into Channel 4 News to say he could not be the attacker, after he had been named earlier in the broadcast.Izzadeen was born in Hackney in east London and converted to Islam just before he turned 18, in 1993, originally changing his name to Oma
  
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• London attack: chaos inside Palace of Westminster after shots fired

  22-03-2017 22:52
  
  Handheld video shows chaos inside the Palace of Westminster after a major terrorist incident outside the Houses of Parliament. People fleeing can be heard yelling "get back" after shots were fired at a knifeman just outside. Video block text
  
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• Parliament attack: police officer among four dead in 'sick and depraved' incident

  22-03-2017 22:48
  
  Four people died after a single terrorist attacked Westminster, stabbing a police officer to death as he tried to storm parliament, and killing two members of the public as he careered through the heart of the capital in a 4x4 vehicle.The attacker was among those killed and at least 20 other civilians were wounded, in the first mass casualty terrorist attack on Britain in over a decade , with the Commons and Lords locked down for several hours because of fears there could have been further attac
  
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• Parliament attack: police officer among five dead in 'sick and depraved' incident

  22-03-2017 22:48
  
  Five people died after a single terrorist attacked Westminster, stabbing a police officer to death as he tried to storm parliament, and killing three members of the public as he careered through the heart of the capital in a 4x4 vehicle.The attacker was among those killed and at least 40 other civilians were wounded, in the first mass casualty terrorist attack on Britain in over a decade, with the Commons and Lords locked down for several hours because of fears there could have been further atta
  
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• Sadiq Khan responds to Westminster attack: 'Londoners will never be cowed by terrorism'

  22-03-2017 22:46
  
  London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said Londoners "will never be cowed by terrorism" following the attack in which four people died near the Houses of Parliament.Some 20 people were injured when the attacker drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and crashed into railings outside the Palace of Westminster on Wednesday afternoon.A Metropolitan Police officer was one of those killed, as was the attacker.
  
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• 'All hell was let loose': witnesses on the Westminster attack

  22-03-2017 22:42
  
  It began like any other early afternoon in Westminster.Inside the Houses of Parliament, MPs were gathering in the Commons chamber to vote, while journalists and parliamentary staff worked in their offices, and parties of schoolchildren and other visitors mingled around the rambling parliamentary estate.Outside, on the street immediately below Big Ben and on Westminster Bridge, the pavements were packed as usual with tourists and pedestrians.
  
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• Medics on Westminster Bridge: 'some injuries were catastrophic'

  22-03-2017 22:18
  
  Emergency services staff provide medical attention outside parliament on Wednesday.Scores of doctors, nurses and ambulance crews sprang into action to help the injured immediately after the attacker struck in Westminster at about 2.40pm.St Thomas’ hospital, just south of where pedestrians were rammed on Westminster Bridge, played a vital role initially, with staff rushing to administer urgent medical assistance to casualties.
  
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• London attack: Theresa May condemns 'sick and depraved' Parliament terror attack

  22-03-2017 22:02
  
  The Prime Minister spoke outside 10 Downing Street following an afternoon that saw a shocking attack in the heart of London.Speaking after chairing a meeting Government's Cobra committee, she praised the “exceptional bravery” of emergency services who "ran towards" danger as they protected others.Mrs May paid tribute to those killed and in the incident on Wednesday afternoon – which included a servicing police officer - and confirmed that three more officers were among the 20 b
  
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• MPs in parliament remain a hard target for terrorists | Alan Travis

  22-03-2017 21:56
  
  When Airey Neave, the last MP to be assassinated in parliament, was blown up by a magnetic bomb under his car as he was driving out of the underground car park, his murderers boasted they had killed him “inside the ‘impregnable’ Palace of Westminster”.There has always, of course, been a constant police presence at Westminster but even during those years of the IRA and INLA bombing campaigns individual members of the public could always get in and out of the Palace of West
  
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• Theresa May responds to 'sick and depraved' London terror attack

  22-03-2017 21:54
  
  Theresa May has responded to Wednesday's "sick and depraved terrorist attack" in London.Ms May praised police and emergency responders who ran towards the danger "even as they encouraged others to move the other way"."On behalf of the whole country I want to pay tribute to them and to all our emergency services for the work they have been doing to reassure the public.
  
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• Security tightened at British sites across New York after London attack

  22-03-2017 21:53
  
  New York police ramped up security at British sites across the city on Wednesday after an assailant fatally stabbed a policeman outside Britain's parliament and was then shot and killed by police.Heavily armed officers and explosives-detecting dogs were deployed to locations including the British Consulate and the British Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan, senior New York Police Department officials told a news conference."You'll see a larger presence of the dogs at these locations, as
  
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• Northern Ireland braces for uncertain new era after McGuinness

  22-03-2017 21:53
  By Conor HumphriesLONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - As the tricolour-draped coffin of former IRA commander turned peacemaker Martin McGuinness was carried to his Londonderry home this week, people across Northern Ireland's sectarian divide were nervously eying a new era of uncertainty.The death on Tuesday of one of the dominant figures in the struggle to unite the British province with neighbouring Ireland came just weeks after a snap election in which nationalists ended the pro-British
  
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• Unarmed policeman killed in parliament knife attack is named

  22-03-2017 21:50
  
  The unarmed police officer who was killed as he tried to stop the terror attack on Westminster was named on Wednesday night as Keith Palmer.Acting deputy commissioner Mark Rowley said Palmer had 15 years service in the Met.“He was someone who left for work today expecting to return home at the end of his shift and he had every right to expect that would happen,” said Rowley.
  
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• Police, students and French school pupils hurt in London attacks

  22-03-2017 21:50
  
  Three police officers on the way back from a commendation ceremony and a group of French school pupils were among 20 people injured in the Westminster terror attack that left four people dead.British university students and a Romanian man and woman were also injured.Two teenage French students were on Wednesday night in a critical condition in hospital after being struck on Westminster Bridge.
  
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• Donald Trump feels 'somewhat vindicated' after his communications picked up by government surveillance

  22-03-2017 21:43
  
  President Donald Trump said he felt vindicated in his claims that he was wiretapped by his predecessor Barack Obama after it emerged some of his communications were monitored and did appear in intelligence reports.Mr Trump and members of his team were the subject of "incidental surveillance" in the months after his election win and their names appeared in reports widely circulated in the intelligence community.Asked if he felt vindicated by the revelation Mr Trump said: "I somewhat do.
  
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• Woman in critical condition after falling from Westminster Bridge

  22-03-2017 21:41
  
  A woman was left a critical condition after being pulled from the Thames after she fell from Westminster Bridge during Wednesday’s terrorist attack outside parliament.A spokesman for the Port of London Authority, which looks after safety on the river Thames, said: “A female member of the public was recovered from the water near Westminster Bridge.Steve Voake, 55, was walking across Westminster Bridge when he witnessed the aftermath of the attack.
  
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• PMQs and then a bang: The day Westminster was brought to a standstill

  22-03-2017 21:37
  
  Two bodies lay on Parliament’s front lawn, one a police officer, the other the man who killed him.Two more people had been killed by a car speeding down Westminster Bridge and mounting the pavement.The driver had escaped bullets put through the car windscreen and ran to the palace gates, where he stabbed a police officer several times.
  
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• The numbing afternoon when I saw a police officer die outside parliament | John Crace

  22-03-2017 21:27
  
  A police officer, someone I had almost certainly said “hello” to at some point over the years.It was about 2.50pm when a reporter from Bloomberg came running into the Guardian office in the House of Commons to say there had been an incident outside.“Some bloke just attacked a policeman with a knife,” I was told.
  
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• We must deny terrorists the disproportionate reaction they seek from us

  22-03-2017 21:21
  
  Terror came on Wednesday to the seat of government and Parliament for the first time since the IRA attacked Downing Street with mortar fire in 1991.Prior to that, in 1979 Airey Neave MP was murdered by a bomb planted in his vehicle which went off in the House of Commons car park.This time, people walking on Westminster Bridge were mown down by a car whose driver then proceeded to Parliament.
  
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• London attack: Scotland Yard flies flag at half mast as tributes flood in for police officer murdered in terror attack

  22-03-2017 21:13
  
  The flag over Scotland Yard flew at half mast as tributes were paid to the police officer killed in a terror attack outside Parliament.The officer was one of four people - including the suspect - killed as he tried to intercept a terrorist believed to have driven through crowds on Westminster Bridge before storming through Parliament gates.The suspect was seen by eyewitnesses “plunging” a large knife into the officer before being shot down by armed police.
  
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• EU puts citizens' rights first as it sets Brexit talk conditions

  22-03-2017 21:01
  By Jan StrupczewskiBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator spelled out on Wednesday the bloc's conditions for talks, saying securing the rights of some 4.5 million EU and British citizens living abroad was paramount.Barnier said the likes of Polish students and Romanian nurses in Britain and British pensioners in Spain faced great uncertainty over rights to residency and access to the labour market, pensions, social security and education.
  
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• Germany to annul post-Second World War homosexuality convictions for thousands

  22-03-2017 21:00
  
  Germany's Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill that would annul the convictions of thousands of gay men under a law criminalizing homosexuality that was applied zealously in post-Second World War West Germany.The decision also clears the way for compensation for those still alive who were convicted under the so-called Paragraph 175 outlawing sexual relations between men.The legislation was introduced in the 19th century, toughened under Nazi rule and retained in that form by West Germany, w
  
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• How Westminster terror attack had echoes of Brussels, Nice and Berlin

  22-03-2017 20:58
  
  The terror attack which left three people dead and 20 injured came a year to the day since the Isil suicide bombers killed more than 30 people in Brussels and bore striking similarities to atrocities in France and Germany.The attacker drove a grey Hyundai i40 along Westminster Bridge, repeatedly swerving into groups of pedestrians before crashing into railings.Months later an attacker drove a lorry into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin, killing several people and injuring dozens more
  
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• Mexican family receives $1m settlement after 16-year-old forced to drink liquid meth on border to prove his claim that it was apple juice

  22-03-2017 20:56
  
  The family of a Mexican teenager who died after being told to drink from a bottle of liquid meth has been awarded $1 million in damages.When confronted by border police, he said the liquid was apple juice.Eugene Iredale, lawyer for the Velazquez family, said the border officers acted recklessly.
  
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• Kennington: Police descend on south London station after reports of large street brawl and stabbing

  22-03-2017 20:53
  
  Met police officers, British Transport Police and London Ambulance Services rushed to Kennington station just after 7pm to attend a “large fight”.Pictures of the scene show traffic at a standstill as police officers patrolled the area.
  
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• French schoolchildren badly injured in Westminster attack

  22-03-2017 20:50
  
  Emergency services work to help victims of the attack alongside the Houses of Parliament.Three French schoolchildren from Brittany on a visit to London were injured – two critically – in the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge on Wednesday.The teenagers from the Saint-Joseph de Concarneau lycée (secondary school) were halfway through a week-long visit to London.
  
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• Donald Trump Jr ridicules mayor of London hours after Westminster attack

  22-03-2017 20:42
  
  President Donald Trump’s son has ridiculed the mayor of London, hours after Wednesday’s suspected terrorist attack.Donald Trump Jr retweeted a September interview with Sadiq Khan, in which he said that readiness for a terrorist attack was “part and parcel of living in a great global city”.
  
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• Donald Trump Jr criticised after ridiculing Mayor of London hours after Westminster attack

  22-03-2017 20:42
  
  President Donald Trump’s son has ridiculed the Mayor of London, hours after Wednesday’s suspected terrorist attack.Donald Trump Jr retweeted a September interview with Sadiq Khan, in which he said that readiness for a terrorist attack was “part and parcel of living in a great global city”.
  
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• Houses of Parliament attack: four dead including police officer

  22-03-2017 20:39
  
  A policeman points a gun at a man on the floor as emergency services attend the scene outside the Palace of Westminster, London.Four people have died, including a police officer, and at least 20 people have been injured in a major terror attack outside the Houses of Parliament, the Metropolitan police have confirmed.Mark Rowley, the head of counter-terrorism at the Met, said a police officer had died after being stabbed by a lone attacker attempting to enter the House of Commons.
  
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• London attack: Police officer and shot terrorist among four dead after car ploughs into pedestrians near Parliament

  22-03-2017 20:34
  
  Four people have been killed in the Westminster terror attack that brought carnage to the heart of London, including the armed police officer who was stabbed and his assailant.Mark Rowley, Scotland Yard's top anti-terror officer, confirmed that 20 people were injured after the attacker - armed with two large knives - mowed down pedestrians with his car on Westminster Bridge then rushed at the gates in front of the Houses of Parliament, stabbing a plain-clothes policeman
  
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• Tobias Ellwood MP hailed for attempting to save officer's life

  22-03-2017 20:31
  
  Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood (centre) helps emergency services attend to a police officer outside the Palace of Westminster.Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood attempted to resuscitate the police officer fatally attacked outside parliament and stemmed the blood from multiple stab wounds.Ellwood, a former soldier, was pictured kneeling over the policeman’s body lying outside the palace of Westminster as he gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and placed his hands over the chest wounds in
  
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• Minister Tobias Ellwood hailed for attempting to save officer's life

  22-03-2017 20:31
  
  Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood (centre) helps emergency services attend to a police officer outside the Palace of Westminster.Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood attempted to resuscitate the police officer fatally attacked outside parliament and stemmed the blood from multiple stab wounds.Ellwood, a former soldier, was pictured kneeling over the policeman’s body lying outside the palace of Westminster, as he gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and placed his hands over the chest wounds,
  
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• London attack: Muslim Council of Britain condemns Westminster terror attack

  22-03-2017 20:29
  
  The Muslim Council of Britain has condemned the terror attack which struck the heart of London.A police officer and a knife-wielding terrorist were among four people killed in the attack on Wednesday.A man was shot outside the Houses of Parliament after a car mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge.
  
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• Four dead, at least 20 injured in parliament 'terrorist' attack

  22-03-2017 20:21
  By Toby Melville and William JamesLONDON (Reuters) - Four people were killed and at least 20 injured in London on Wednesday after a car ploughed into pedestrians and an attacker stabbed a policeman close to the British parliament in what police called a "marauding terrorist attack".The dead included the assailant and the policeman he stabbed, while the other two victims were among the pedestrians hit by the car as it tore along Westminster Bridge before crashing into railings just outside parlia
  
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• Tommy Robinson condemned for ranting about Islamic extremism at scene of London terror attack

  22-03-2017 20:17
  
  Tommy Robinson has been widely condemned for launching into a tirade about Islamic extremism at the scene of a suspected terrorist attack in Westminster.The former English Defence League leader rushed to the Houses of Parliament in London after news of the attacks emerged.Although details about the alleged assailant and their motive remains unclear, Mr Robinson claimed Britain was at “war” with Islamic fundamentalists.
  
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• Abu Izzadeen: Man 'behind London terror attack' called for murder of police and politicians

  22-03-2017 20:16
  
  Abu Izzadeen, who was born Trevor Brooks, has been named in reports as the man who drove a car into the Houses of Parliament and attempted to attack police officers.Izzadeen has long been known to authorities for his links to terrorism.
  
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• Abu Izzadeen: London attack suspect 'named'

  22-03-2017 20:13
  
  The terror suspect believed to have carried out the Westminster attack has been named as Abu Izzadeen, formerly known as Trevor Brooks, according to reports.Izzadeen, who has long been known to authorities for his links to terrorism, has spent time in prison for fund-raising, inciting and glorifying acts of terror.The attack unfolded shortly after lunch when a car was driven into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before it was crashed into the railings surrounding Parliament.
  
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• London terrorist attack: what we know so far

  22-03-2017 20:04
  
  Events are unfolding rapidly in Westminster after a terrorist incident outside the Houses of Parliament.Four people have died, including a police officer and one man believed to be the attacker, police said.The alleged assailant drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster.
  
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• Westminster attack: Tributes for dead pour in as #WeAreNotAfraid trends

  22-03-2017 20:02
  
  Tributes have been flooding in for the police officer and two members of the public killed in a car and knife attack in Westminster.An assailant, dressed in black and armed with two large knives, brought terror to central London on Wednesday as he rammed into members of the public before crashing his car into the rails outside Parliament.Police said the attacker, who is believed to have acted alone, then repeatedly stabbed a police officer, before being shot dead by the officer's colleagues.
  
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• Timeline of the Westminster attacks

  22-03-2017 20:02
  
  Members of the emergency services work to help victims on Westminster Bridge after the attack. Photograph: Niklas Halle'N/AFP/Getty Images
  
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• London attack: Police officer among four dead as terror strikes in the heart of Westminster

  22-03-2017 19:56
  
  Four people including a police officer were killed in London's bloodiest terror attack since 7/7.The knifeman then stabbed a policeman before being shot dead by armed officers near the Houses of Parliament.The police officer later died despite frantic efforts to save him by bystanders including a serving MP.
  
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• Quarter of English state primary schools are 'ethnically segregated'

  22-03-2017 19:53
  
  The government is being urged to tackle segregation in schools after research claimed that more than a quarter of all state primary schools across England and four in 10 state secondaries were ethnically segregated.The study, which uses a new measure of segregation, also claims that 30% of primary schools and 28% of secondaries are split by socio-economic background.Segregation levels have fallen in schools in Bradford in West Yorkshire and Oldham in Lancashire, but the report says the problem i
  
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• 'I thought a bomb was about to go off': Bus driver on Westminster Bridge during attack describes what he saw

  22-03-2017 19:53
  
  A London bus driver has described scenes of "panic" as a suspected terror attack unfolded outside the Houses of Parliament.Michael Adamou was turning over Westminster Bridge when he saw what initially looked like an accident.Scotland Yard has confirmed at least four people died in the incident, including the attacker, a police officer and two others.
  
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