False Email Claims Another Terror Attack on London Imminent

Still reeling from the 7/7 terror bombings in the underground last week, many Londoners awoke this morning to find the following forwarded message in their inboxes:

The Metropolitan Police will be strongly advising everyone that the they will be putting officers on tube stations 24/7 for the next week as they highly expect another attack within this time.

The police force have been in meetings all morning and will be publicly confirming this later on this evening. They will be advising the public to avoid the tube at all costs for the time being...

But the warning has not, in fact, been confirmed by the Metropolitan Police, who said in a statement to the BBC: "We are not aware of any specific threat at this time."  Read more...