Liberals Just Keep Spreading Fake News Even When They Lose.
2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news. Studies have shown that over 90% of the media’s coverage of President Trump is negative.
Below are the winners of the 2017 Fake News Awards.
1. The New York Times’ Paul Krugman claimed on the day of President Trump’s historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover.
2. ABC News’ Brian Ross CHOKES and sends markets in a downward spiral with false report.
3. CNN FALSELY reported that candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald J. Trump, Jr. had access to hacked documents from WikiLeaks.
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4. TIME FALSELY reported that President Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office.
5. Washington Post FALSELY reported the President’s massive sold-out rally in Pensacola, Florida was empty. Dishonest reporter showed picture of empty arena HOURS before crowd started pouring in.
.@DaveWeigel@WashingtonPost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue, w/ thousands of people outside, on their way in. Real photos now shown as I spoke. Packed house, many people unable to get in. Demand apology & retraction from FAKE NEWS WaPo!
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6. CNN FALSELY edited a video to make it appear President Trump defiantly overfed fish during a visit with the Japanese prime minister. Japanese prime minister actually led the way with the feeding.
7. CNN FALSELY reported about Anthony Scaramucci’s meeting with a Russian, but retracted it due to a “significant breakdown in process.”
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8. Newsweek FALSELY reported that Polish First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda did not shake President Trump’s hand.
9. CNN FALSELY reported that former FBI Director James Comey would dispute President Trump’s claim that he was told he is not under investigation.
10. The New York Times FALSELY claimed on the front page that the Trump administration had hidden a climate report.
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11. And last, but not least: “RUSSIA COLLUSION!” Russian collusion is perhaps the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people. THERE IS NO COLLUSION!
Well, now that collusion with Russia is proving to be a total hoax and the only collusion is with Hillary Clinton and the FBI/Russia, the Fake News Media (Mainstream) and this phony new book are hitting out at every new front imaginable. They should try winning an election. Sad!
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While the media spent 90% of the time focused on negative coverage or fake news, the President has been getting results:
1. The economy has created nearly 2 million jobs and gained over $8 trillion in wealth since the President’s inauguration.
2. African Americans and Hispanics are enjoying the lowest unemployment rate in recorded history.
3. The President signed historic tax cuts and relief for hardworking Americans not seen since President Reagan.
4. President Trump’s plan to cut regulations has exceeded “2 out for every 1 in” mandate, issuing 22 deregulatory actions for every one new regulatory action.
5. The President has unleashed an American energy boom by ending Obama-era regulations, approving the Keystone pipeline, auctioning off millions of new acres for energy exploration, and opening up ANWR.
6. ISIS is in retreat, having been crushed in Iraq and Syria.
7. President Trump followed through on his promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and instructed the State Department to begin to relocate the Embassy.
8. With President Trump’s encouragement, more member nations are paying their fair share for the common defense in the NATO alliance.
9. Signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the VA to fire failing employees and establishes safeguards to protect whistleblowers.
10. President Trump kept his promise and appointed Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The “populist surge” in Europe has far from peaked and is the most significant change to the European order since the end of the Cold War, a new report by former British left-wing Prime Minister Tony Blair’s own think tank has claimed.
Assessing what the report identifies as a “populist threat” as a means to defeat it and “renew the centre”, the globalist Institute for Global Change document questions widely-held assumptions that right-populist politics is an “interlude”, or blip in history which “optimistic” observers believe will burn out.
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To the contrary, the Institute’s own research shows “the trend line suggests that populists will continue to gain strength in the next round of elections”, and particularly in Eastern Europe, the report noting: “Populists are strongest in Eastern Europe. They routinely out-compete the political mainstream and have already taken power in seven countries: Bosnia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia.”
Populism could instead prove to be “the new normal” and may “drive European politics into a more nationalist and protectionist direction… governments would move decisively towards restricting net migration flows; make access to some social benefits conditional on citizenship status; and undermine minority rights in key respects.”
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Looking forward, the paper predicted that should the next decade see populist parties enjoying the same growth as they had in the past ten years, then nations like Germany and Sweden could too see themselves “vulnerable” to such movements.
The report comes as left-wing papers including The Guardian and New York Times mourned the “demise of Europe’s centre-left”, at the expense of the populist right, noting surging right-wing parties across the continent.
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A senior Polish politician has hit back as the BBC airs a documentary on Poland and Hungary which accuses them of being anti-democratic.
Beyond protecting Europe’s borders, one of the areas of right-populist influence that apparently most concerned the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change authors was changes to institutions, across Europe often created or shaped in the post-war period and widely acknowledged to be totally in the hands of mainstream, politically-left management as a result of the famed “long march through the institutions”. One prominent example of such change being presently wrought by a European populist government is reform of the judiciary in conservative Poland.
A hangover of the old Communist system, the Polish government was elected on a platform of judicial reform to increase accountability in the courts, but has been relentlessly attacked by globalist institutions such as the European Commission for attempting to rebalance. Poland and Hungary are both key points of interest in the Tony Blair report, where the ruling parties of both nations are accused of emphasizing “a nationalism based on soil, blood, or culture”.
Despite the criticism, the report concedes “populist governments in Hungary and Poland are as popular as ever”.
A woman trying to kill bed bugs accidentally set a multi-family home ablaze in Avondale late Friday, Cincinnati fire officials said.
Three people were taken to a hospital and 10 were displaced from the residence on Hutchins Avenue, said District 3 Fire Chief Randy Freel.
Flames broke out about midnight Friday when a woman in a first floor unit tried to kill bedbugs with rubbing alcohol that ignited near an open flame, either a candle or burning incense, he said.
Fire was shooting from the first floor when fire crews arrived about midnight, Freel said.
Firefighters helped an elderly woman walk out of the building who could not see through the smoke, Freel said.
Three adults were overcome with smoke inhalation and went to a hospital for treatment, he said. They are expected to recover.
In all, seven adults and three teenagers were displaced from the five-unit multi-family home.
The American Red Cross is helping them with temporary lodging, clothing and meals.
Damage was set at $250,000.
Fire officials have a word of advice for anyone wanting to get rid of the persistent pests:
“Get a professional,” Freel said.
“When I got here the whole house was on fire,” said one of the residents, Kamaron Lyshe.
Bed Bugs are nasty
He rushed home from work when someone called to alert him and shot a Facebook Live video as fire tore through the building and shot through the roof.
He was in shock Saturday morning as he stood looking at what was left of the building.
“I’m kind of dealing with it now. I’ll start from scratch,” he said. “It’s like a dream….everything is burnt. I’ll start fresh. It’s all we can do now.”
This is the second major residential fire in two weeks set by someone trying to kill bedbugs, according to the Cincinnati Fire Department.
Liberals Are Finish With Russia And Now They Have Moved To Attacking Trump And Cokes.
President Donald Trump insatiably consumes Diet Coke and watches up to eight hours of television every day, insiders reveal.
Now, a leading Harley Street Nutritionist is warning that this type of sedentary lifestyle could be damaging to his health.
In a lengthy article documenting how Donald Trump copes with the daily demands of presidency, the New York Times discovered that he drinks roughly 12 cans of Diet Coke daily, and watches news channels on TV from the moment he wakes up.
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After a night of five-to-six hours sleep, it has been reported that the President switches on the television straight away, usually with his phone in hand ready for any tweets that may occur to him.
The insiders also reveal that Trump’s compulsion to watch TV is so strong that when meetings are held in the White House dining room, a 60-inch TV remains on constantly.
What’s more, the he is also said to drink around 12 cans of Diet Coke every day – consuming far more than an adult’s daily-recommended dose of caffeine.
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However, alongside the pressure of presidency, one nutritionist says that leading such a voracious lifestyle could prove detrimental to Trump’s health.
“The majority of evidence suggests that most sedentary people have a much greater risk of dying early,” leading Harley Street Nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert told The Independent.
“With inactivity believed to play a significant role in the development of insulin resistance, long term sedentary behaviour is likely to increase the risk of conditions such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
“Interestingly one of the markers in studies for sedentary behaviour is often TV watching.”
Similarly, Lambert adds that while diet drinks might be lower in calories, they should not be considered a healthy choice.
“It has long been suggested that artificial sweeteners may have a stimulating effect on appetite and, therefore, may play a role in weight gain and obesity.
“Even though drinking diet drinks is safe in moderation, it doesn’t make them a healthy choice. They certainly offer absolutely nothing in the way of nutrition.”
Instead, she says that water should always be your first choice of fluid.
“Water is essential for many of our bodily processes, so replacing it with diet drinks is a negative thing. If it’s the fizziness
Conservatives are too damned gullible. Flynn was and will always be a democrat.
BREAKING: Michael Flynn Charged With Making False Statements To The FBI
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been charged with making false statements to the FBI, the Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed in court documents filed on Friday.
Flynn, a retired lieutenant general, is expected to plead guilty to the charges at a plea hearing scheduled in Alexandria, Va. on Friday morning.
According to the charging document against Flynn, he lied to FBI agents during a Jan. 24 meeting in which he was asked about his conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Prosecutors say that Flynn lied when he said that during a Dec. 29, 2016 conversation with Kislyak, he did not ask the Russian diplomat “to refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the United States had imposed against Russia that same day.”
He also falsely claimed that he did not recall that Kislyak told him that Russia “had chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of his request.”
Flynn also misrepresented a conversation he had with Kislyak on Dec. 22, 2016. Flynn initially claimed that he did not ask Kislyak to delay a vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution.
Flynn was fired by President Trump on Feb. 13, purportedly because he made false statements to Vice President Mike Pence about his interactions with Kislyak.
Parsons Green explosion: Hunt for Tube bucket bomber – latest news
Parsons Green Tube explosion declared a terrorist incident
Attacker remains at large after home-made bomb detonated
Suspect ‘identified by security services from CCTV footage’
Most of 22 injured suffer flash burns from device ‘with timer’
Others trampled as they flee bucket bomb on District Line
Theresa May criticises Donald Trump over ‘unhelpful’ tweet
‘I heard a boom… then there were flames’: What witnesses saw
Everything we know so far about the Parsons Green attack
‘The kettle’s on’: Londoners’ very British response to bombing
A huge counter-terrorism investigation is under way after a bucket bomb was detonated on a packed London Underground train at Parsons Green.
Witnesses described scenes of terror and panic after the blast sent a “fireball” and a “wall of flame” through a District line service in west London. At least 22 people were injured, including a boy believed to be aged about 10.
A major manhunt for the bomber has been launched, with police working with MI5 as they forensically examine the device. No arrests have so far been made and the attacker remains at large, with an unconfirmed report that the security services have identified a suspect from CCTV.
After the attack during the Friday morning rush-hour, Britain’s most senior counter-terror officer Mark Rowley said: “We now assess this was a detonation of an improvised explosive device.”
A total of 22 people – including children – were injured in the explosion, with most of them suffering from “flash burns”.
Others were trampled and suffered crush injuries in the rush to escape the packed carriage, which was the last in the train.
Witnesses reported seeing people “covered in blood” after a “flash and a bang” from the device, but sent a “fireball” through the packed Tube train.
Pictures and video posted on social media showed a flaming bucket – which appeared to have wires coming from it – inside a Lidl carrier bag on the floor of a carriage.
The device is not believed to have fully detonated and it is reported that it could have been set off on a timer.
Emergency services including armed police rushed to the scene after being alerted at around 8.20am.
After chairing a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergencies committee Prime Minister Theresa May condemned the “cowardly” attack – and confirmed the UK terror threat level remains unchanged at severe.
It comes with Britain on high alert after four terror attacks in 2017. The official threat level currently stands at severe – meaning an attack is seen as “highly likely”.
‘Police need more resources to boost safety’ – security experts
British Transport Police (BTP) should be given more resources to boost safety on London Underground, a security expert has said.
Deploying more officers should be prioritised over installing check points at Tube stations, according to Will Geddes, founder of private security firm International Corporate Protection.
Introducing airport-style barriers “is not necessarily going to be a solution” because of the huge number of passengers using the network.
“The terrorist is always going to look for the path of least resistance,” he said.
“If you’ve got additional checkpoints on the exterior of the airport or the Tube station, you create a choke point, you create a build-up of individuals which could be exploited.
“What will hopefully happen is BTP will be given more resources to continue initiatives they’re currently running, where they have periodic sweeps by plain-clothed covert officers who are carrying out hostile surveillance detection.
“They’re ideally picking up on individuals who might be planning to do something or are in the right position to be able to react as quickly as possible should something happen.”
Around 700 uniformed BTP personnel are deployed on the Tube and Docklands Light Railway, part of 3,000 across the capital’s transport network.
Mr Geddes said passengers play a “critical part” in combating terrorism.
“It couldn’t be more true, especially on the Underground,” he said.
“You’ve seen the posters, you’ve heard the announcements. If you see an unattended package, or something else suspicious, report it.
“It’s really, really key. The general public are the eyes and ears on the ground.”
A bomb blast tore through an underground train deep in St Petersburg, Russia, on April 3, killing 11 people.
About 100 people were killed when two bombs were detonated outside Ankara train station in Turkey in October 2015.
Locals offer tea and pizza to those caught up in attack
Free pizza, cups of tea and spare phone chargers were on offer around Parsons Green as well-meaning residents sprung into action following the outrage.
West Londoners fastened signs to their front doors telling anyone affected to come if they need anything from a beverage to a toilet break.
At the fringes of the police cordon, Teo Citino, the owner of nearby restaurant Il Pagliaccio, piled a fold-out table with free pizza for the emergency services.
The 52-year-old said: “One of the reasons I’m here is that my wife and daughter could have been on that train, I live next to the station. I rang my wife right away, they were evacuated from the house in pyjamas.
“I must admit, I have been very, very lucky because they usually get the train to go to my daughter’s school, she is 12 years old.
“My second reason is that it is a way to say thank you to those who provide services – the fire brigade, police and nurses – because I don’t believe they receive enough money.”
Other residents from near the site of the attack approached members of the Press and offered them access to phone chargers and a place to sit down inside.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council was also on hand, opening a local community centre as a rest place for those whose homes were within the police cordon.
Social media was similarly awash with people offering a comforting hot drink to those caught up in the aftermath.
Bucket bomb seen before in failed UK terror attacks
The improvised bucket bomb left on the Tube at Parsons Green bears the hallmarks of previous failed bombing attempts in the UK, according to experts.
Academics and chemical experts suggested that, while the device caused what witnesses described as a “fireball”, it failed to fully detonate.
Dr Lewis Herrington, a lecturer and terrorism expert at Loughborough University, said the use of a timer was “key”, as it distinguished it from the suicide attacks on July 7 2005 and at the Manchester Arena earlier this year.
He said: “A timing device is critical – if you look at all the other attacks, the Westminster attack, Khuram Butt, Salman Abedi, they all wanted to die.
“That’s not present and that really sends alarm bells. This guy really wanted to pack a punch.
“The initiator succeeded hence the reported fireball but clearly the explosive element failed.”
Dr Herrington said the attack instead bore echoes of the case of Damon Smith, 20, who was jailed for 15 years in May after leaving a home-made bomb in a rucksack containing ball bearing shrapnel on a Jubilee Line train.
Smith, who had autism and was not motivated by terrorism, created the bomb after finding a guide online.
Area around Parsons Green evacuated so ‘remnants of bomb’ can be secured
Scotland Yard said the area surrounding Parsons Green Tube station has been evacuated so specialist officers could “secure the remnants of the improvised device and ensure it is stable”.
A spokesman added: “A small number of residents will be affected by the evacuation, which encompasses an area approximately 50 metres in radius.” The Tube station remains closed.
Meanwhile, more than 50 residents evacuated following the attack are being looked after at the Lancaster Court community centre, reports Nicola Harley.
Council officers said they do not know how long people will be stuck here.
Donald Trump: ‘We have to be very, very tough’
Asked about the London terror attack by reporters outside the White House in Washington, US President Donald Trump said: “It’s a terrible thing. It just keeps going and going, and we have to be very smart, we have to be very, very tough. Perhaps we are not nearly tough enough.
“It’s just an absolutely terrible thing. In fact, I’m going to call the Prime Minister right now. We have to be tougher and we have to be smarter.”
Security services have ‘identified suspect from CCTV’ – report
The security services have identified a suspect in the Parsons Green bombing from CCTV footage, according to an unconfirmed report by Sky News.
Tube commuter: I thought I was going to die
Passenger Emma Stevie was in the Tube carriage when the device exploded. Here she describes the moment people were crushed as they tried to escape:
‘I’ve never had the feeling of, I’m about to die’: Parsons Green eyewitness recounts chaos
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Theresa May condemns ‘cowardly’ attack – and rebukes Donald Trump over tweet
Theresa May has rebuked US President Donald Trump over his Parsons Green comments on Twitter, saying: “I never think it’s helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation.”
The Prime Minister also condemned the “cowardly” attack, saying: “This was a device intended to cause significant harm.”She also confirmed that the UK terror threat level remains unchanged at severe and is not being raised to critical.
Mrs May was speaking following a meeting of the Government’s emergency Cobra committee.
Scotland Yard: Donald Trump’s Tube bomber comments ‘unhelpful and pure speculation’
Scotland Yard has dismissed a claim by Donald Trump that the Parsons Green Tube bombers had been “in the sights” of police as “pure speculation”.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said the US president’s comments – which did not correspond with any information released by the UK authorities – were “unhelpful”.
Mr Trump made the provocative allegation in a trademark tweet as police launched a major manhunt to track down the perpetrators responsible for planting the device on a packed commuter train.
“Another attack in London by a loser terrorist,” he wrote. “These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!”
His claim threatened to spark a fresh row over US-UK intelligence sharing arrangements which have already come under strain since he entered the White House.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “The comments are unhelpful and pure speculation. If anyone has got any evidence or information, please contact the anti-terrorism hotline.”
‘They were shouting ‘stop, stop, stop”: Passenger describes crush chaos
Tube passenger Ryan Barnett said there was a crush of people on the stairs as commuters ran from the scene of the blast.
The 25-year-old, who works in politics and had been travelling to his office, said: “The stewards and other passengers, they are shouting ‘stop, stop, stop’, so I ended up squashed on the staircase, people were falling over, people fainting, crying, there were little kids clinging on to the back of me.
“It is absolute chaos, it was quite scary because at one stage we thought we might be trapped there – I heard a pregnant woman lost her shoes and had fallen over.”
Police forensics officers scour carriage where bomb was detonated
Here are the latest pictures reaching us from Parsons Green as police forensics officers continue to examine the device that partially exploded and the Tube train.
Meanwhile, other detectives are scouring CCTV footage and examining witness statements for potential leads.
Parsons Green bomb comes after four UK terror attacks so far this year
The blast comes with the UK on high alert following four terrorist attacks so far this year.
Authorities have foiled 19 plots since the middle of 2013 – including six since the Westminster atrocity in March.
The incident comes a day after figures revealed terror-related arrests in Britain have hit a new record high, with suspects held at a rate of more than one every day.
Police and MI5 are running 500 investigations involving 3,000 individuals at any one time, while there are also 20,000 former “subjects of interest” whose risk must be kept under review
‘There was a stampede and people started crushing each other’
Standing outside St Thomas and Guy’s Hospital, a woman who was on the Tube when the blast happened, told The Telegraph’s Harry Yorke: “I was stood at the opposite end of the Tube, in the front carriage. I was on my way to work.
“I didn’t hear anything, we just heard people screaming. We just ran to the exit, but there was a stampede and people started crushing each other.
“People were just scrambling and trying to get out through the entrance. My sister was in the carriage and was injured in the blast.”
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said her sister had been taken to A&E and was currently being treated for burns.
Commuter in blast carriage tells of ‘flaming orange’ fireball
Tube passenger Lauren Hubbard, who was end in the end carriage of the train with her boyfriend, said she heard a loud bang and saw a “fireball” coming towards her, reports Laura Hughes.
The 24-year-old said: “It was hot and just came towards you, this flaming orange coming towards you. It smelt like burning.
“We hid behind cement boxes on the tube platform and were the last people to get off the platform.”
She said her first thought was: “Terrorist attack… I’m going to die.”
Another witness, who works next to the station, said he saw people pouring out the station looking “shellshocked” and “panicked”.
Another witness told the BBC: “I was walking towards the station and suddenly lots of people came running down the stairs shocked and tearful and saying that there had been an explosion.
“People were saying there had been a wall of flames coming down the Tube carriage. I turned around and came back from the Tube station with all of them.”
Police confirm no arrests so far as manhunt continues
Scotland Yard have confirmed that no arrests have so far been made.
A spokesman said: “Detectives from the Counter Terrorism Command, part of the national counter-terrorism police network, are making fast-time inquiries to establish who was responsible and are working closely with the security services. So far there have been no arrests.”
The passengers who fled along train tracks after blast
Passenger Jose Sarango was on a Tube train about to pull into Parsons Green as terrified commuters began along the tracks opposite to flee the device, reports Steve Bird.
“We had nearly reached Parsons Green at about 8.25am when our train from Victoria suddenly stopped. The driver announced that there was a problem with the train ahead.
“That was when we saw people, mainly adults and many wearing suits, filing nervously along the train tracks opposite away from the station towards Fulham.
“Many of them looked panicked as they tried to pass trains stacked up. Some of them were running and looking behind at the train they had just been on in the station. They were clearly very worried.”
Mr Sarango, a 52-year-old cleaner from Stockwell who was travelling to Parsons Green to have breakfast with his wife before work, said he was stuck on his train for an hour and watched as scores of passengers fled past his carriage.
“The driver then told the passengers to move to the back and we were let off to walk along the tracks,” he continued.
“I felt very nervous. No one knew exactly what was happening. People had begun looking at their phones and saw reports of people saying there had been some kind of explosion. That news meant we were even more worried.”
Mr Sarango and his fellow passengers were led down a back route along the tracks to Parsons Green.
“I was reassured to see lots of armed police, police cars and sniffer dogs. But, it was scarey.”
His wife, Cecelia Velez, had been waiting to have breakfast at Gail’s coffee shop on Fulham Road before their shift as cleaners at a local shop.
When she called him he warned her about the terror fears. Minutes later, police ordered her and staff at the restaurant to take cover downstairs.
“I suffer a blood pressure condition. And, I could feel my blood pressure drop,” she said. “We didn’t know what was going on, we were simply told that there had been an ‘incident’, but our phones told us otherwise.
“I still feel a little cold, but the staff here have given me coffee and sugar to help.”
Amber Rudd condemns ‘callous and indiscriminate’ attack
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has condemned the Parsons Green blast, saying: “Once more people going about their everyday lives have been targeted in a callous and indiscriminate way.
“My thoughts are with all those injured and affected. The police and emergency services were quickly on the scene and I would like to pay tribute again to their professionalism and tireless commitment.
“I am receiving regular updates on what is an ongoing and active investigation. I would urge Londoners to remain alert and assist the police and emergency services as much as they can.”
Sadiq Khan: An attempt by evil and cowardly… to disrupt our way of life
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has issued a statement in which he said: “This was an attempt by evil and cowardly individuals to kill and disrupt our way of life.”
Mr Khan told LBC: “There is a manhunt under way as we speak.”
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Residents evacuated as police check for any other potential devices
Residents surrounding the Tube station have been evacuated from homes as police check for any other potential devices, reports Nicola Harley.
“There are searching homes, workmen told me they are checking for any other devices,” a witness said. “We don’t know when they will let us return.”
Witness Luke Warmsley was in the carriage where the device exploded.
“It was like a large match had gone off at the end of the carriage,” he told LBC radio.
“There was a plume of smoke that went off. I looked down the carriage and just saw more and more people running towards me.”
Another witness said she saw people with burns and medics were placing plastic over their injuries.
Council leader ‘outraged’ by explosion
Stephen Cowan, the leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, the area in which the attack took place, said he was “outraged” by the explosion. He said:
“Around 8.20 this morning a package exploded in the final carriage of a District Line train at Parsons Green station, it is being treated as a terrorist incident.
“What is extremely impressive was that the emergency services were on to the situation immediately, there is a completely co-ordinated effort and there is no reason to be overly concerned.
“I would stress that people should be reassured because this is being dealt with very effectively by everyone in the emergency services.
“I can’t tell you how angry I am, I am absolutely outraged that someone could do this – attacking innocent lives, putting those people at risk and causing fear and harm is not a way to express yourself.
“This kind of terrorism needs to be stamped out, but people need to recognise that in London we have one of the most amazing cities anywhere, they are not going to damage us, they are not going to beat us.”
Total number of those injured in Parsons Green rises to 22
In addition to the 18 victims taken to hospital by ambulance, four others took themselves to hospital, the NHS said. Here is where they are being treated:
Imperial – three patients
Chelsea and Westminster – eight
Guy’s and St Thomas’ – eight
Central London Community Healthcare Urgent Care Centre in Parsons Green – three
Jeremy Corbyn thanks emergency services for response
Writing on Twitter, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has thanked the emergency services for their response to the terror attack:
Donald Trump denounces attack by ‘loser terrorist’
US President Donald Trump has denounced the attack by a “loser terrorist”, suggesting that such attackers “were in the sights of Scotland Yard”:
Police: Blast caused by ‘detonation of improvised explosive device’
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said the Parsons Green explosion was caused by the “detonation of an improvised explosive device”.
Mr Rowley said it was understood that “most” of the 18 injured were suffering from “flash burns”.
He added that:
Hundreds of detectives are involved in the investigation – including scouring CCTV footage and speaking to witnesses
MI5 is supporting the police investigation
Londoners can expect to see an enhanced police presence on the capital’s transport network this weekend
‘Remain vigilant’: Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley warns the public
Commuters tell of ‘mass pile-up’ trying to flee Tube train
One witness told The Telegraph’s Laura Hughes: “It was extraordinary – just panic as everyone legged it off the train.
“I got stuck in a mass pile-up as everyone tried to get down the stairs. People were falling on top of each other trying to get out.”
A passenger on the train ahead, who gave his name only as Mike, told the Telegraph: “We were taken off the train at Fulham Broadway. The driver reported a mayday call had been received from Parsons Green.”