Tube stations evacuated.

Warren Street, Oval & Shepherd's Bush tube stations have been evacuated. (Sky News)

Eyewitness reports speak of smoke in a train before they were told to leave the train.

Tube system on “Code Amber” alert

The BBC site now has an initial report on the incidents:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4703777.stm


BBC News 24 is reporting that the tube system is being put on Code Amber, which means it will be shut down. The whole of the Northern Line, the Victoria Line and the Hammersmith and City Line have already been suspended. [UPDATE: it now seems the “Code Amber” is limited to those lines.]

“Code Amber” is the highest alert level, and means that an attack has taken place.

There also appears to have been an incident on a bus.

Also see Sky:

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1189833,00.html


Latest on the TV: the police are not treating this as a major incident as yet.

“Stay where you are”

Sir Ian Blair, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, has asked Londoners to stay where they are, not to try to get anywhere, to take pressure off the transport system at the moment. (News 24)