Huge cordon in Sheffield city centre

Reporter Alastair Ulke is at the scene of a large police cordon in Sheffield city centre this morning

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00:00Good morning Sheffield, it's Alistair from the Sheffield Star and I'm speaking to you

00:03from the top of Broad Street off of the Ring Road where I can only say what is

00:07probably the biggest police scene I've personally ever seen is currently

00:10underway. This is a police scene that was put in place at around 7 p.m. last

00:13night and here we are around 12 hours later and it's still absolutely teeming

00:17with police officers. I've seen all sorts of emergency services on this trip

00:21around the Ring Road I've taken today. The headlines I can say is that the

00:26area was closed off yesterday by police over reports of a man with weapons and

00:30we have no more information than that at this point but huge sections of the area

00:34are currently shut off. I can think of the tram network is closed, the bridges

00:38that go over the Ring Road, the main roundabout is shut off, Broad Street is

00:43closed, every road leading to Broad Street is closed and I'm told there is

00:46currently an evacuation centre at Ponds Forge Sports Centre for

00:52residents in the flat box behind me as far as I know. This is an extensive

00:56police scene that we're trying to get more information about and in the

00:59meantime it's going to cause huge amounts of disruption for Sheffield and

01:03people trying to make their way to work or even just get about on their day this

01:06morning. We'll bring you more information about this as it goes but huge sections

01:10of the city are currently closed off over a relatively unknown cause at this

01:14time. We'll bring you more information as it happens.