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From The Guardian five minutes ago:

"The journalists who were in the press gallery are now being held in Westminster Hall. Armed police seem to be search the Palace of Westminster room by room - quite an undertaking, because it’s a rabbit warren, with endless cellars, cubby holes etc - and I’ve just seen a team go into the room where the Westminster Hall chamber is, guns raised as if they were on the alert. We’re told that they believe there may still be one suspect on the loose."

My partner's on lockdown in the Cabinet Office down the road, I think everyone there is doing the same as I'm doing, just watching it on TV and trying to make out what's happening.

I was out at City Hall this morning with a group of students until about 2:15pm, now a couple of people at the college are getting worried, in case a) they had for some reason decided to go to Westminster afterwards and b) they'd managed to get there in time to be involved. I'm confident that they're fine but I'm imagining what it would be like to be a teacher of that French group.