Westminster bridge, parliament incident

It's a worry but hopefully it can be contained and it seems plans to lock down the area worked as planned.

The show must go on, as King Freddie said.

Awful incident, hopefully an isolated individual rather than a wider plot (as it seems from reports). But London as always keeps going, and quite right too, as said above, if everything stops, they win. So mourn the tragic losses, be thankful for those who escaped, and for those working to protect and keep going.

It can - and they had plenty of pictures and footage that did just that. But showing photos of victims in which they are clearly identifiable to those who know them is, in my view, inexcusable in any circumstances. I've come to expect it from social media but I despair when national broadcasters stoop to the same level. These are real people who should be treated with the dignity and respect we would wish for our own loved ones.

My thoughts with all whose lives have been forever altered by today's events. London, as it ever has, will lift its collective chin defiantly and keep on keeping on.

I was a little concerned about the news showing the people close to the event as their families might be trying to contact them. I think showing a dead body in a bag is fair frankly these days. We see worse in the news from Syria. This is a very sad event. But London is a prime target, always has been. I was here during the Irish bombing. Scary but we carried on. Then the 7/7 and people went on the tube the next day and went to work. I'm humble in the face of of what the police do and the medics. The police run towards potential danger.

There is something very special about London isn't there? Have a look at those films of the Blitz and just wonder how on earth they carried on.

And Sheffield, and Coventry, Manchester, Southampton, Liverpool and all the others. No, there's nothing special about London in the Blitz. People carried on all over the country. It's just that the film crews didn't/couldn't go there.

I too worked in London during the IRA bombings. In those days social media did not exist, of course, and often the first we knew of the latest bomb scare or atrocity was trying to get home and finding roads blocked or the Tube closed. Thankfully I was fortunate, and the nearest encounter I had was being held in the pedestrian tunnels midway between platform and entrance to the Tube while the police investigated a suspect package. Hot, claustrophobic and frightening, but we all got on with it and carried on as normal once released.

I agree totally that victims' faces should not be shown. I once complained to a local paper who posted a particular graphic photograph on Twitter of a car crash where someone died (the driver was trapped in the car), with the registration number clearly visible. To their partial credit they removed the picture from Twitter, but it didn't stop them from it featuring in the hard copy of the paper later in the week. I presume they thought that by then the family had been notified, so it would be all right. Hmm.

Thankfully made it to wine o'clock with @ryan no problem. I can't believe the extent of this incident though. I wasn't meaning to overreact earlier asking if I am ok to travel into central, I have just never been in London when something like this has happened before haha.

On the media front, they really should not be showing some of the images. Not just the deceased, but even those injured on the bridge. The daily mail has pictures of people with puddles of blood surrounding them, it is horrible!

RIP to those who have sadly lost their lives today (not the attacker!) and thoughts and prayers to those injured and those family, friends, witnesses and, well, just everyone in the UK basically.

I was at Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf last night and perhaps the area was marginally quieter than normal but apart from a few extra police here and there, as ever, you wouldn't have been able to tell anything had happened. Inevitably the American right were claiming the city was shut down and Trump Jr showed he's just as hideous as his father with his tweet about the Mayor.

I thought the BBC coverage was genuinely pretty good but it's at times like these they pay the price for hiring such lightweights to present BBC Breakfast - they looked miles out of their depth this morning. Though across the board there seemed to be a rush to present this as the first terrorist attack since Lee Rigby, forgetting Jo Cox which is disappointing but unsurprising - the rush to present her killer as a disturbed loner and nothing to do with extreme right ideology clearly took hold.

Oh and agree about the de Menezez comment, clearly the police were at fault in that instance but there's a time and a place for that and that's not when a policeman has been killed doing his job.

It was a serious comment. When the primary attacker had been downed but the scene was on lockdown with the possibility of further assailants, at the time I posted, this is the prime time for the real risk of another such incident.

It was good to experience London continuing as normal last night. By the time we headed back to the station the whole area was reopened.