Police in major anti-terror exercise

Police forces in Scotland and England are to take part in a major counter terrorism exercise to test the response of emergency services to a crossborder incident.

The three-day “live-play scenario”, which will involve locations around Edinburgh, the Lothians and Northumbria from today, is not in response to any specific threat but is the result of over a year of planning.

Officers will inform people in local residential and business areas close to the exercise so as not to raise alarm.