Summary

  • Police say the death toll from Saturday's attacks has risen to eight

  • Australian au pair Sara Zelenak is named as the latest victim of the attacks

  • Police searching for French national Xavier Thomas have recovered a body from the Thames

  • A 30-year-old man was arrested for terrorism offences in the early hours of Wednesday

  • Police casualty bureau can be contacted on 0800 096 1233 and 020 7158 0197

Live Reporting

  1. 'I hid in restaurant during attack'

    Witness tells BBC Radio 5 live...

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  2. Rudd: the election must go on

    ITV

    Home Secretary Amber Rudd told ITV's Peston on Sunday it was right that the general election should go ahead on Thursday, despite the suspension of campaigning by the major parties today.

    They are out to attack our values, our way of life, our democracy, our freedoms. It would be wrong to knock any of those in this period now. Everybody I speak to is absolutely clear that they want the election to go ahead on Thursday. None of the parties are going to be campaigning today so nobody gets an advantage: the fact is I believe we should go ahead, as the Prime minister said, on Thursday.

    Amber Rudd, Home secretary

  3. Cricket players and fans pay tribute to attack victims

    Cricket matchReuters

    Players and crowds at Edgbaston for the ICC One Day International between India and Pakistan held a period of silence before play began to pay tribute.

    Cricket teams during silenceReuters
    Cricket crowd during silenceReuters

  4. 'It's business as usual for us' - shop owner

    Cherry Wilson
    BBC News

    Many of the bars and restaurants that would normally be opening ready to welcome families for Sunday lunch remain with their shutters down.

    But Arife Buz, 34, who works in Borough off-licence, said London Bridge was busier with people than she would normally expect at the weekend.

    "It's business as usual for us. We checked with the police whether we could open and they said it was okay.

    "It looks so busy here. It's not usually like this at the weekend as all the offices around here are closed.

    "I freaked out when I heard about the attack. It's very scary."

  5. Rudd: "We think they have caught all the main perpetrators"

    ITV

    Home Secretary Amber Rudd tells ITV's Peston on Sunday the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which reports to MI5, decided not to raise the terrorism threat level. She said it believed there were not likely to be more perpetrators at large:

    We don’t believe there are additional elements which could be carrying on the attack last night. JTAC has made that assessment, so they haven’t recommended going to critical. We can’t be 100% sure, the police are still carrying on their operation, but if JTAC thought there were more people out there who could be extending this attack I expect they would have considered raising it. We’re staying at severe because we think they have caught all the main perpetrators.

    Amber Rudd, Home secretary

  6. 'Attacks not targeting UK election'

    Frank Gardner
    BBC Security Correspondent

    The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner has said the timing of the recent terror attacks in the UK may have more to do with so-called Islamic State's call to intensify attacks during Ramadan, rather than to directly target the UK's general election.

  7. Tim Farron calls for 'defiance' after attack

    Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said:

    “My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families, and I would like to pay tribute to the emergency services for their professional response in such terrible circumstances.

    "The terrorists kill us because they hate us and what we stand for. They hate our democracy and our freedom. We refuse to let them win. We must respond with a vigorous commitment to our democracy.

    "The election must go ahead as planned. It is right that we suspend our national campaigning for a short while out of respect for those affected by these tragic events, but local campaigning can and must continue.

    The remainder of this campaign must be a collective showing of defiance and pride in our democratic values."

  8. London attack: How it unfolded

  9. Borough Market closed today

    The market's Twitter account says...

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  10. Home Office sets up website to provide support

    Forensic officer in London BridgePA

    The Home Office has set up a website to provide support for people affected by the attacks.

    The site includes phone numbers for the Police Casualty Bureau for people who may be concerned about someone who may have been caught up in the attack: 0800 096 1233 and 020 7158 0197.

  11. Twitter reacts to May's statement

    Theresa May's statement has prompted a lot of reaction on social media.

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  12. Latest map of where the attack happened

    Map of area where attack happened

  13. Eyewitness saw stabbed man 'wandering around in the street'

    Eyewitness Liam told BBC Radio 5 live he was looking out of the window of a flat in Borough Market when he saw a young man trying to get the attention of ambulance crews outside the Southwark Tavern, saying his friend had been stabbed.

    He said he then saw another "dazed" man who looked like he had been stabbed "wandering around in the street".

  14. 'Difficult, embarrassing conversations' - May

    Theresa May after giving her statement

    Theresa May after giving her statement

    Speaking outside Downing Street moments ago, Theresa May said more action to deal with terrorism needed to be taken "here at home".

    While we have made significant progress in recent years, there is - to be frank - far too much tolerance of extremism in our country. So we need to become far more robust in identifying it and stamping it out across the public sector and across society. That will require some difficult, and often embarrassing, conversations. But the whole of our country needs to come together to take on this extremism, and we need to live our lives not in a series of separated, segregated communities, but as one truly United Kingdom.

  15. 'Police believe they have all the main perpetrators' - home secretary

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  16. We need to regulate cyberspace - May

    Speaking after chairing a meeting of the government's emergency committee Cobra, the prime minister also spoke about the need to deal with terrorism, saying the UK needed to work with international leaders to shut down areas of the internet used by terrorists to communicate.

    Mrs May said there needs to be an international agreement to "regulate cyberspace" where extremists have "safe spaces".

    We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed. Yet that is precisely what the internet, and the big companies that provide internet-based services provide.

  17. Some have 'life-threatening' injures - May

    Mrs May also provided some additional details about those injured in the attack. Some 48 people suffered injuries and are being treated in hospital. The PM said some of those have "life-threatening" injuries.

  18. Map of where the attack unfolded

    Map of London Bridge

  19. 'A lot of people were crying' - witness

    BBC Radio 5 live

    Peter, who lives on Stoney Street in London Bridge, saw the attack out of his window.

    He said the street went "silent and riot police came in with guns pointed... and they sort of just kept position there for a while".

    He said he was then ordered to evacuate and told to head across Southwark Bridge.

    "When we were on the bridge the police started yelling and shouting at us to get down, we had to sort of crouch when we were running over the bridge so it was really scary, a lot of people were crying," he said

  20. 'The UK must pull together' - May

    Theresa May confirmed the Conservatives and Labour have suspended their national election campaigns as mark of respect. But she said "violence must can never be allowed to disrupt the democratic process", saying those campaigns will "resume in full tomorrow and the general election will go ahead as planned on Thursday".

    The prime minister said the UK must "come together, we must pull together and unite we will take on and defeat our enemies".