22 Mar, 2017 @ 15:48
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BREAKING: UK Parliament on lockdown following gunshots

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PARLIAMENT is on lockdown after gunshots were heard outside the Palace of Westminster.

Witnesses say they saw a man with a knife within the confines of the palace while journalist Quentin Letts has said he saw a ‘parliamentary security men shoot a man who had attacked a policeman’.

There are also unconfirmed reports of bodies on Westminster bridge after witnesses say a car drove through people before crashing into parliament gates.

Westminster tube and the surrounding area has been locked down.

More to follow….

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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