Metal detectors at train stations would ‘make life impossible’, says UK transport secretary
by Peter Walker Senior political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#716JE)
Heidi Alexander says security review after Cambridgeshire train stabbings will consider all other options
Metal-detector scanners at train stations would make life impossible" for passengers, the transport secretary has said, adding that a review into security after a mass stabbing on a high-speed train would examine all other options.
A member of train staff who intervened to protect passengers as the service approached Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire remained critically ill in hospital but his condition was now stable, Heidi Alexander said.
Continue reading...