Since Chancery Lane tube station has been closed (because of last weekends derailment) I’ve been walking to work from Bank station. This takes me past the Old Bailey (the UK’s central criminal court). Normally I’m walking past this building at about 8:30am which is long before anything starts happening there (judges like their beauty sleep).
This morning, because of a nightmare journey on the tube I was walking over an hour later. As I got within a couple of blocks of the court I started to notice large numbers of police standing on every corner. As I got closer to them I noticed that they were all carrying big guns.
That might not sound very surprising to some people, but in the UK our police don’t carry guns unless there’s a specific reason for it, so it’s still a bit shocking when you see it. There were a lot of police and a lot of guns.
I guess there was some big terrorism case going on in the courts. I’ll have to check the news and see what’s going on.