Former Chelsea midfielder, John Mikel Obi, has revealed he will be on the World IX team set to take on England in Soccer Aid for UNICEF’s charity match.
This will see the former Nigeria international make a return to Stamford Bridge.
Mikel Obi has been confirmed as part of the lineup for the coming Soccer Aid clash.
The 37-year-old played for the Blues from 2006 till 2017, going on to win the Premier League and Champions League titles.
Since he hung up his boots, he has dabbled into several off-pitch activities, including hosting a podcast and making guest appearances at award shows.
At an event that kept participants waiting for about an hour 45 minutes, the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan, were yesterday hosted at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja as part of a bid to promote Invictus Games, a sport event for military personnel wounded in action.
Lasting for about 30 minutes, Harry and Meghan, who arrived at the Defence Headquarters quietly in four SUVs, reviewed a military quarter guard mounted in their honour before a close out session at the headquarters.
Received amid pomp and pageantry with cultural troupes and wives of military officers, who were dressed in printed ankara, Harry and wife had a conversation with a former participant at the Invictus Games, Peacemaker Azuegbulam, before being ushered into the Chief of Defence Staff’s office by wives of the service chiefs, where he spent about 30 minutes holding a private meeting.
After the meeting, the Duke and Duchess took their time to have a handshake with dozens of wives of military officers who were in a single file after which they left.
It was gathered that they were setting out for Laduna, where he would be visiting wounded soldiers. The couple, who arrived the Defence Headquarters at around 1.45pm, had visited school children at the Lights Academy in Abuja.
Meghan told the students they were “honoured to be visiting Nigeria.” The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) had announced last Thursday that Prince Harry would be arriving Abuja yesterday to visit wounded soldiers.
Prince Harry is respected among world militaries for launching the Invictus Games in 2014, a sport event for military personnel wounded in action.
The game first took place in London in 2014. The word Invictus is Latin for unconquered, chosen as an embodiment of the fighting spirit of the wounded, injured and sick service personnel and what they can achieve, post-injury.
The sport has helped to inspire recovery, support rehabilitation and generate a wider understanding and respect for those who serve their country in the military.
The labour leaders should return to the glorious traditions of Comrades Wahab Goodluck, Hassan Sunmonu and Ali Chiroma, in which productive political education was regularly conducted, and union activities were funded mostly through workers’ union dues, not “donor” funds. When strategic alliances were built with other working peoples and students. When critical leaflets, pamphlets and posters on workers’ rights, democracy and development, were produced and nationally distributed.
Nigerian workers marked the 2024 International Workers’ Day with lectures, speeches, songs, marches and fanfare. It was a Day richly earned. Missing, however, in the Workers’ Day celebration was the neglect of the history of workers in the making, democratisation and development of Nigeria.
Such remembrance is important because, “while the living close the eyes of the dead, the dead open the eyes of the living.” This is why I am telling the story of the 1945 General Strike and the challenges of today.
The Strike began on 22 June. The first of its kind, it was led by Labour Leader No. 1, Michael Athokhamien Omnibus Imoudu. Its principal cause was the refusal of the colonial government to increase the wages of African workers in accordance with the Cost Of Living Allowance (COLA). The soil for the strike was fertilised by the government, which increased the salary package of the European staff, while refusing to do same for African workers, predicating this on the grounds of inflation. The unions issued an ultimatum for the strike, mobilised workers and sought public support. The civil society and nationalist politicians also ventilated the workers’ grievances, criticised colonial racism and encouraged the workers to strike. The bell for the strike was struck when Imoudu declared: “Negotiation has failed. We are going on strike.” The workers’ complied with the strike order.
This first General Strike in Nigeria, involved about 200,000 workers, and lasted for 44 days in Lagos, at least 53 days in the Northern and Southern Provinces, and 74 days in the “British” Cameroons province. The workers’ determination and sacrifices were responsible for the long duration of the strike. They refused to succumb to threats, blackmail, intimidation and harassment from the colonial establishments and traditional rulers. They chased, stoned and beat strike breakers amongst their ranks. They countered government’s anti-strike measures. This included derailing trains meant to break the strike. They swore on oath not to betray each other and not to resume work unless the strike was called off. The public helped to sustain the strike. Landlords suspended the demands for rent. Market women and men sold essential commodities to workers at normal prices. Students and youths organised drama to educate the public on the causes, necessity and significance of the strike. The nationalist politicians publicised the strike in their media, while the Africans in the Atlantic and the socialist and communist movements internationalised the strike.
The strike taught that unity and struggle are the hallmarks of labour unionism and that government will not, willingly, grant concession to workers. It equally showed that workers and the other working people see themselves as organically related and dialectically connected.
The conditions and forces that triggered the 1945 General Strike are still prevalent. If anything, they might have grown horns. British colonialism was “terminated” almost 64 years ago. But it has been replaced by more insidious, divisive, dangerous and destructive forces like the International Monetary fund (IMF), World Bank (WB), World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the European Union (EU).
So, a general strike is not something to be toyed with, or to be declared and suspended at the whims and caprices of leaders. Rather, it displays workers’ power, asserts the authority of unions, and is a weapon that defends, promotes and secures workers’ concessions from government and employers.
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The conditions and forces that triggered the 1945 General Strike are still prevalent. If anything, they might have grown horns. British colonialism was “terminated” almost 64 years ago. But it has been replaced by more insidious, divisive, dangerous and destructive forces like the International Monetary fund (IMF), World Bank (WB), World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the European Union (EU). Like “the pagan god (which) would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of its slain victims”, they have recruited their servants and worshippers amongst some Nigerian politicians, scholars, professionals, business people, bureaucrats and even labour leaders.
Together, they have successfully rolled back the state in the practice of development, through means like privatisation, de-industrialisation, retrenchment, naira devaluation, wage and salary freeze, non-payment of salaries and, increases in taxes, tariffs and levies. Other measures include the withdrawal of subsidies on basic needs such as education, health, electricity, petroleum products, and fertilisers. They have equally subverted and destroyed public educational, health and judicial institutions. Also, they have glorified the looting of our commonwealth and destruction of our environment. The results have been the generalised crises in which the working people are increasingly terrorised by hunger, misery, poverty, diseases, illiteracy, criminalities, lawlessness, insecurity, and hopelessness. It has never been so horrible for the working people, especially since 2015. Neoliberalism, therefore, is not only government-organised, legalised and protected robbery, it is also antithetical to democracy, development and humanity.
Edo people say, “Wherever the White man (imperialists) steps his feet, disasters and destructions follow.” Which was why Frantz Fanon admonished Africans to, “Leave Europe where they are, never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in every corner of the globe.”
Nigerian rulers must discard neoliberalism, rebuild the fractured state, secure society and return to state-driven peoples’ development. However, should government persist in following the European path with all its degeneracy, then they should, as Fanon rightly and sincerely advised, “leave the destiny of our countries to Europeans (as) they will know how to do it better than the most gifted among us.”
These unionists have accepted neoliberalism, relegated workers to singing “solidarity for ever” songs and, therefore, abandoned labour’s traditions of struggle and culture of resistance. By their noiseless noises, march-less marches, and strike-less strikes, they have become the major force paralysing, patronising, pacifying and demobilising workers.
But the Labour Movement has, since 1988, tolerated and encouraged this crises. Many of its leaders have stultified the union’s democratic heritage, discarded workers’ critical allies, aligned with oppressive governments, the exploitative arms of the private sector and politicians.
These unionists have accepted neoliberalism, relegated workers to singing “solidarity for ever” songs and, therefore, abandoned labour’s traditions of struggle and culture of resistance. By their noiseless noises, march-less marches, and strike-less strikes, they have become the major force paralysing, patronising, pacifying and demobilising workers. They go into endless negotiations with government frowning, and come out smiling, with promises of salary awards and increases that hardly materialise. Or, when they materialise, these do not march the galloping inflation.
The labour leaders should return to the glorious traditions of Comrades Wahab Goodluck, Hassan Sunmonu and Ali Chiroma, in which productive political education was regularly conducted, and union activities were funded mostly through workers’ union dues, not “donor” funds. When strategic alliances were built with other working peoples and students. When critical leaflets, pamphlets and posters on workers’ rights, democracy and development, were produced and nationally distributed. They should return to holding monthly workers mass meetings, and with the decisions reached, used to formulate labour programmes.
They should put into concrete practice workers’ slogans, “An injury to one is an injury to all” and “Everything for the struggle, victory for all.” They should reflect and act on the Fulfulde song, “Commoners exist where there is king, but a kingdom cannot exist where there are no commoners;/Grass exists where there is nothing that eats grass, but what eats grass cannot exist where no grass is;/Water exist where there is nothing that drinks water, but what drinks water cannot exist where no water is.” They should, therefore, put workers, not government, employers or politicians, first.
Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf worked as deputy director, Cabinet Affairs Office, The Presidency, and retired as General Manager (Admininstration), Nigerian Meteorological Agency, (NiMet). Email: aaramatuyusuf@yahoo.com
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A distressing incident occurred at the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara, where gunmen abducted several students during an evening attack. The university, located in the Adavi local government area of Kogi State, was stormed by the assailants around 8:23 pm on Thursday, May 9th, just as students were deeply engaged in their first-semester examination preparations.
Details on the exact number of students kidnapped remain unclear, as university authorities and security forces continue to assess the situation and coordinate responses. The attack has sparked significant concern among the student body and the wider community, highlighting ongoing security challenges within educational institutions in the region.
Local law enforcement and security agencies have been mobilized to track down the perpetrators and secure the release of the hostages. Efforts are underway to enhance security measures at the university and other vulnerable targets to prevent future occurrences of such violent incidents.
This abduction underscores the urgent need for improved security protocols and swift action from both the government and educational authorities to ensure the safety and security of all students pursuing their education under such threatening conditions.
Nigeria’s naira has experienced a significant downturn, making it the world’s worst-performing currency over the past month. This decline has heightened pressure on the Central Bank of Nigeria to consider further interest rate hikes.
As of the latest reports, the naira has fallen to a record low of 1,466.31 to the US dollar, marking its weakest position since March 20. This sharp depreciation is largely attributed to a severe shortage of US dollars in the local market. On Thursday, the availability of the US currency plummeted to just $84 million, half of what it was the previous day, exacerbating the currency’s instability.
This trend poses a challenge for Nigeria’s economic management, as the central bank might need to implement more aggressive monetary policies to stabilize the currency and curb inflationary pressures.
The reintroduction of gasoline subsidies in Nigeria, just months after their removal, is poised to consume nearly half of the country’s projected oil revenue for the year, according to a report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This move reflects the economic challenges facing Africa’s largest oil producer.
The IMF’s recent report indicates that the reinstated subsidy could deplete approximately 8.43 trillion naira ($5.9 billion) out of an expected 17.7 trillion naira in oil revenue. These figures closely align with projections from Bank of America, which estimated the subsidy costs could reach between $7 billion and $10 billion for the year, depending on the volume of gasoline imports, which are anticipated to be between 18 and 25 billion liters.
The decision to resume the fuel subsidy followed initial reforms in June 2023, which were not accompanied by sufficient compensatory measures for the economically vulnerable populations, leading to its temporary halt amid concerns over corruption, as noted by the IMF.
The subsidy was initially removed by President Bola Tinubu at the start of his term in mid-2023 as part of efforts to stabilize the nation’s fiscal environment, with debt-service costs soaring to 96% of government revenues. Following the subsidy’s removal and the subsequent devaluation of the naira, which aimed at establishing a free-floating currency regime, fuel prices in Nigeria more than tripled. This price surge exacerbated inflation rates and sparked widespread protests across the nation.
In response to the economic strain on citizens, the Nigerian government reintroduced a cap on fuel pump prices towards the end of 2023, effectively bringing back subsidies, albeit indirectly. The naira has since depreciated by nearly 70% against the dollar since June of last year.
Despite Nigeria’s status as Africa’s top oil producer, the country heavily relies on imported gasoline due to inadequate domestic refining capacity. However, there is potential relief on the horizon with the anticipated operations of a 650,000 barrel-per-day refinery near Lagos, owned by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s wealthiest person, and another significant refinery in Port Harcourt managed by the state-owned Nigeria National Petroleum Co.
The IMF projects that the fuel subsidy will be phased out entirely within two years as the Nigerian government aims to enhance its cash transfer programs targeted at the nation’s poorest. Approximately 40% of Nigeria’s population lives in extreme poverty.
Olu Verheijen, a senior energy aide to President Tinubu, underscored the government’s stance in March, stating, “All governments have the prerogative to maintain price stability and prevent social unrest. If prices are moving, they reserve the right to intervene.” This statement highlights the ongoing balancing act faced by the Nigerian government in managing economic policy amid fluctuating market conditions.
Denel Bentley and Danny Dignum will go into battle at York Hall on May 11 with the WBO International middleweight title on the line.
The Battersea Boy will take on the Basildon Boy in what is near certain to be a thrilling scrap in Bethnal Green, with the winner propelled right back in the rankings.
The two-time British champion Bentley (18-3-1, 15 KOs), 29, was on the wrong end of a majority decision up in Manchester in November of last year when he defended his Lonsdale belt against Nathan Heaney, having a year earlier extended the WBO world champion Janibek Alimkhanuly to a tough 12 rounds in Las Vegas.
Former WBO European champion Dignum, 32, has been contending with inactivity in recent times, with his last fights coming in March and April of 2023 with victories over Dustin Amman and Lukasz Maciec respectively.
Previously, Dignum (16-1-1, 9 KOs), was also defeated by Alimkhanuly in a challenge for the WBO Interim world title in May 2022.
Bentley vs Dignum Undercard
Also confirmed for the card on May 11 is the return of the Piranha, Ryan Garner (14-0, 8 KOs), in a defence of his WBC International super featherweight title against former British champion Liam Dillon (13-1-1, 3 KOs), in what will be the toughest examination to date for the Southampton 25-year-old.
British and Commonwealth featherweight champion Nathaniel Collins (14-0, 7 KOs) is back in title action with a challenge for the EBU Silver Championship against the champion Francesco Grandelli (18-2-2, 4 KOs) from Italy.
Oronzo Birardi vs Milans Volkovs – 8 rounds cruiserweight
Royston Barney-Smith vs Jonatas Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira – 8 rounds super featherweight
Archie Sharp vs TBA – 8 rounds super featherweight
Ben Fail vs Ioan Alexandru Lutic – 6 rounds super welterweight
Khalid Ali vs John Henry Mosquera – 6 rounds welterweight
Tommy Fletcher vs Viktar Chvarkou – 6 rounds heavyweight
Bentley vs Dignum TV Channel
All the action will be available to watch on TNT Sports 2 and Discovery +.
Bentley vs Dignum Start Time, Ring Walks
The televised card starts at 7 pm BST (2 pm ET) on Saturday, May 11.
Main Event Ring Walks are expected for approximately 10:00 pm BST (5:00 pm ET)
Jessica McCaskill will defend her world title against Lauren Price next
Olympic Gold medallist gets major homecoming in Wales on May 11
Heavyweight Hughie Fury returns on McCaskill vs Price Undercard
Jessica McCaskill fights a few weeks later than originally planned.
McCaskill was scheduled to defend her WBA, WBC and IBO welterweight titles against Ivana Habazin on April 20 in Croatia after Piranha Promotions, on behalf of Habazin, won the purse bids for $82,500.
However, it was confirmed in March that the fight will no longer go ahead and the American will instead put her 147-pound championship on the line against Britain’s undefeated Lauren Price.
Price will get home advantage for her first world title shot as McCaskill travels to Cardiff, Wales to defend her title on May 11.
Price has had six professional bouts since entering the pro game in June 2022 after winning Olympic Gold in Tokyo. The Welsh woman has already beaten a former European champion, Kirstie Bavington, and former middleweight title challenger, Lolita Muzeya.
The 29-year-old southpaw shares a promoter, Ben Shalom’s BOXXER, with another titleist in Natasha Jonas leaving the possibility of a unification fight open for Price and possibly McCaskill should she end the unbeaten record of the British women on May 11 live on Sky Sports (UK) and Peacock (US).
McCaskill vs Price Undercard
Former World Title challenger Hughie Fury faces Germany’s Patrick Korte in a heavyweight clash.
Fury (27-3, 15 KOs) is looking to get his career back on track following an extended period out the ring. The 29-year-old returned to action last month, scoring a points win over Kostiantyn Dovbyshchenko.
Germany’s ‘Big Patrick’ Korte (21-3-1, 18 KOs) has been stopped in all three defeats inside three rounds against Felix Langberg, Demsey McKean, and Andrei Mazanik. Fury will be looking to do the same on Saturday.
Undefeated light heavyweight Lewis Edmondson faces Joel McIntyre.
Edmondson (8-0, 3 KOs) claimed a points win over Dmytro Fedas last time out at the Bournemouth International Centre in December and will look to extend his unbeaten run as he targets a fight with fast-rising star Ben Whittaker.
McIntrye (20-8, 5 KOs) is coming off four consecutive defeats but should prove durable opposition for Edmondson.
Mark Jeffers will meet Darren Johnstone in a ten-round super middleweight bout.
Jeffers (17-0, 4 KOs) stepped in at short notice to defeat current British and Commonwealth Champion Zak Chelli in July 2023.
Johnstone (8-0, 2 KOs) won the Scottish Area title last time out after Ben McGivern retired due to acut above his eye.
Rhys Edwards (15-0, 4 KOs) takes on the former British champion and WBA #1 contender Thomas Patrick Ward (34-1-1, 5 KOs) for the WBA Intercontinental Title.
McCaskill vs Price Start Time, TV Channel, Ring Walks
When: Saturday, May 11
Where: Utilita Arena Cardiff, Wales
How To Watch: Sky Sports (UK), Peacock (US)
When Does The Main Card Start: 7 pm BST (2 pm ET, 11 am PT)
What Time Are The Ring Walks?: 10:00 pm BST (5 pm ET, 2 pm PT)
Are Xbox and PlayStation as bad as each other? (Microsoft/Sony/Metro.co.uk)
A reader predicts an extinction level event for the video games industry and blames both Sony and Microsoft for letting it happen.
Well, what a week it’s been, eh? We had the first tentative announcement of the Nintendo Switch 2 and then we had Xbox provide a free clown show for the entire world to see, that generously went on for days. I think at this point we take off the kid gloves and just admit that not only are Xbox laughably incompetent but that they’re an absolute parasitic blight upon gaming, that are now in real danger of destroying the entire console industry. That’s not hyperbole, that’s just plain fact.
I feel I can avoid any accusations of console bias by saying that PlayStation are almost as bad: slightly more competent but, by their inaction, just as guilty for dragging gaming into the dirt and abandoning everything they’ve been building on for the last 30 years, the second things became difficult. Although the real reason they’re less distractive is simply that they haven’t got the money to make as much of a mess of things as Xbox has.
When trying to work out what Xbox is trying to achieve, I’m reminded of the quote from Game of Thrones, where Varys talks about Littlefinger by saying, ‘He would see this country burn if he could be king of the ashes.’ In the Song of Xbox and PlayStation, Phil Spencer takes the role of Littlefinger. Except Phil Spencer, like the rest of his executive cronies, is an idiot.
I’ll say this, I do think Phil Spencer probably does like games. He likes money more, and as an exec would probably sell his own grandmother to climb another rung up the corporate ladder, but back when he first started as the big boss, he probably did think he could do better for Xbox and help gaming overall. The last decade of failure though shows that no, he can’t.
As GC already pointed out, the problem with Xbox is that they’re always looking for an excuse not to just buckle down and make games. They always think they’ve found a shortcut, that can let them catch up with PlayStation, whether it’s buying up companies Sony can’t afford or TV integration or backwards compatibility or streaming or Game Pass. Anything to avoid just putting your head down and making some great games.
PlayStation has the same tendencies, often by about the halfway point of a generation when they’ve secured their ‘win’, but I thought after the success of the PlayStation 4 they’d learn the secret to being a successful console manufacturer. It’s not a very complicated secret, it’s… make good games. Games so good people want to buy your console to play them.
Nintendo is doing better than ever at the moment (Nintendo)
I mean, it really isn’t any more than that. Just ask Nintendo. They’ve been in this business longer than either Sony or Microsoft and they’ve taken their knocks. And how do they engineer their comeback, despite having far less money to hand? They shut up and make some great games, and customers quickly return.
But Microsoft has never had the patience for that (and absolutely never stop talking) and now that they’ve wasted $75+ billion on buying up developers they’re out of time. Microsoft has the money for that sort of acquisition, but when you’re dealing with that much money they want it back with more on top. It’s like borrowing from your parents, they might forget a few small loans but when you start talking about real chunks of cash, they want that money back… with interest.
Except what is Xbox going to do? It’s still got no exclusives on the horizon that are going to make people buy their consoles (I’m going to take an educated guess that Hellblade 2 and Indiana Jones are not going to turn the tide) and the big companies it chose to buy don’t make games more than every five years, at most. What even is Blizzard working on now and how long is it going to be till The Elder Scrolls 6, let alone Fallout 5?
They own Activision now, so they’ve got that Call Of Duty money coming in, but it has to stay multiformat or that’ll stop too. And will they dare make it day one on Game Pass? I have my doubts. Xbox has got nothing they can do but shut down studios (the less wages they’re paying the more profitable they seem – at least for a bit, until they run out of games to sell) and basically just run their business like Activision Blizzard was before they bought them.
And yet, in writing all this out I’m not sure which is worse, Xbox or PlayStation. Xbox is the more reckless and clueless, but PlayStation is in essentially the same position and has given up what Xbox has always been so desperate to achieve. PlayStation stopped making games, just like that, and are now, presumably, working on live service titles and almost nothing else.
This is how the death of video games happens, with publishers concentrating on the one or two live service games they have, until they eventually wither and die and there is nothing left but Candy Crush and gacha games. It’s not even just Xbox and PlayStation. 2K had a round of layoffs recently, so they’re basically just GTA and Red Dead and their microtransaction-filled sports games.
EA and Ubisoft, and all the rest, will surely follow and then all gaming will be is indie games, Nintendo, and maybe a few other Japanese developers. Oh… well maybe the great extinction won’t be so bad after all. Especially since the victims brought it on themselves.
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A COPS were last night forced to gun down a crossbow-wielding man after an officer was shot in the leg.
Police scrambled to a home in the quiet Buckinghamshire village of Downley at 6pm yesterday after a man in his sixties was stabbed.
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Cops at the scene in Buckinghamshire last nightCredit: LNP
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An officer (not pictured) was shot in the leg with a crossbowCredit: LNP
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Cops combing the scene for evidenceCredit: LNP
A policeman responding to the stabbing was shot in the leg with a crossbow.
He was taken to hospital along with the stabbing victim, and has since been discharged.
The stabbing victim suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries, cops said.
A 54-year-old man was shot by an armed officer during the incident, suffering “potentially life-changing” injuries.
He has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and taken to hospital under police supervision.
Thames Valley Police has automatically referred itself to the IOPC watchdog over the incident.
Assistant Chief Constable Tim Metcalfe said: “We are currently dealing with a serious assault and weapons incident in High Wycombe.
“A man in his sixties suffered a stab wound at an address in School Lane, Downley, at around 6pm yesterday.
“Police officers attended and one was shot in the leg with a crossbow.
“He was taken to hospital but has since been discharged. Our thoughts are with the injured officer.
“We are doing everything to support him and his colleagues, as well as all others affected by the incident within the force.
“The assault victim has also been taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries. Our thoughts are with him as well.
“A 54-year-old man from High Wycombe has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
“He has also been taken to hospital under police supervision with potentially life-changing injuries having been shot by an armed police officer during the incident.
“We are not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident at this time.
“There is a large police presence in the area as a result but there is no ongoing threat to the wider public.
“Anyone with concerns should speak to a uniformed police officer.
“A large police cordon is in place so please avoid the area as best you can.
“I’d ask the public to avoid speculating about the incident and sharing footage on social media; instead send it to us via our website.
“We have also made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.”
