cricketfieldclarets wrote:He has just replied.
You see things differently when you've got a child with you, see armed police yesterday, the only station that had them, and this morning I realised that the pelican crossing to blackfriars tube was blocked with bollards so vehicles couldn't get near, probably after what happened at westminster
Totally agree that we will all feel things more sensitively when you feel your child might be at risk. I certainly do. I'd agreed with my (then teenage) daughter that she could spend the day in London two weeks after 7/7 - 21/7, the day the second group tried to explode their bombs in central London. I was very relieved when she phoned me to say she was safe and heading back home again.
And my son has been up in central London today - and was safely home just before this incident was breaking.
I've also exchanged a few emails with a good friend earlier today - he lives at London Bridge. Pleased to hear that he is also safe.
The "ring of steel" has been in place around the City of London since the IRA blew up the Baltic Centre - and took out all the windows in what was then known as NatWest Tower. I'm not certain, but the bollards your friend saw near Blackfriars tube may be part of the "ring of steel" - or they may have been installed more recently. There have been a large number of barriers around Westminster since 7/7 (they may have been installed after 9/11) - I've not been that way since the Westminster Bridge "incident" (that word doesn't appear appropriate) - I'm sure there will be even more there now.
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