Bravehearts - Remembering George

In a scene that could have come from George Orwell’s classic book 1984, hundreds of police officers flooded the streets of Oxford on 22nd July. Side Streets were lined with police vans, packed with police officers. Dozens of officers on bikes patrolled the streets, whilst dozens more stood on every street corner. Wherever you looked, yellow tunic officers were in abundance. A dozen police horses were forced to march through the searing heat of Oxford City centre as Thames Valley Police prowled the streets of this once picturesque city.

What were the police there for? Had they been informed that Al Qaeda were expecting to cause carnage amongst the tourists and shoppers that had turned out in their thousands on this oppressively humid summer's day? Or had they had some intelligence information that had alerted them to a possible terror at