Major Disruption As London Stations Close

Severe Weather Warnings As Cold Snap Strikes

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 27 Desember 2014 | 22.56

Severe weather alerts have been issued across Britain with the Met Office warning of dangerous conditions caused by snowfall, heavy rain and extreme cold.

The Met Office says there is a 90% chance of severe cold, ice and snow in some areas of England between today and the New Year.

Yellow weather alerts are in place in the East Midlands, the West Midlands, London and the South East of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland's South West, Wales and across several other regions.

The cold weather alert issued by the Met Office warns conditions could "increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services".

The wild weather has already caused travel disruption on the roads, railway and at UK airports.

Motorists were forced to abandon their vehicles after becoming stuck in snow in Sheffield.

Traffic was backed up on the Prince of Wales Road in the early hours of the morning with some motorists reporting four-hour tailbacks.

Stranded coach passengers spent the night at Our Lady and St Thomas Church in Sheffield after their vehicle got stuck on the A61 heading out of the city. They eventually continued their journey early on Saturday morning.

Liverpool's John Lennon Airport and Leeds Bradford International Airport in Yorkshire were forced to close their runways while snow was cleared.

Four flights into Liverpool from Malta, Berlin and Bucharest had to be diverted to Manchester Airport on Boxing Day. Both airports reopened on Saturday.

A pilot at Manchester Airport was also forced to call the police after he was stuck on the tarmac for three hours waiting to be "de-iced" as the snow fell.

The ferry port at Calais, in France, was closed for around two hours on Saturday after a ferry was forced to turn back due to strong winds.

And Newcastle United football fans were forced to spend the night on their coach after it got suck heading back from Manchester near Rochdale.

Around 52 fans spent the night on the coach on the M62, before arriving back in the North East 12 hours later than expected.

Christmas night was the coldest of the year so far, with -8.5C recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire.

Temperatures could also drop as low as -10C in some places at the start of next week.

Leek, near the Peak District in Staffordshire, has seen the worst of the snowfall with four inches falling, according to the Met Office.

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Gallery: Festive Feeling As Snow Falls Across The Midlands And Northwest England

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North Korea Accuses US Over Internet Blackouts

North Korea has blasted the US President following the release of The Interview, which features a fictional plot to kill its leader Kim Jong-Un.

In a statement, the reclusive nation's National Defence Commission (NDC) described the president as a "monkey inhabiting a tropical forest".

The statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, accused Mr Obama of encouraging the release of the film, and threatened the United States with "inescapable deadly blows".

It also blamed the US for shutting down its Internet earlier this week, something the United States has denied.

The Interview was first screened on Christmas Day after Mr Obama and a number of high-profile Hollywood figures slammed Sony Pictures for pulling the film.

Sony had cancelled the film's release following a cyber attack and threats of violence against cinemas that chose to screen it.

Mr Obama accused North Korea of being responsible, warning that the US would respond "in a place and time and manner that we choose".

Pyongyang denied any involvement in the attack.

It went on to suffer internet blackouts, triggering speculation the US had launched a retaliatory attack.

"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," the NDC statement said.

"If the US persists in American-style arrogant, high-handed and gangster-like arbitrary practices despite (North Korea's) repeated warnings, the US should bear in mind that its failed political affairs will face inescapable deadly blows."

The statement once again condemned The Interview, which stars Seth Rogen and James Franco, as "a movie for agitating terrorism".

Former British ambassador to North Korea John Everard told Sky News Pyongyang's latest statement was likely to have been well "calculated".

"This is the second statement that the North Koreans have released on this subject in a few days," he said.

"In their first statement on the 21st of December they took great care not to insult President Obama

"Clearly they have calculated there is nothing to be gained from trying to be nice to him."

The Interview took in a million dollars after its limited release on Christmas Day when it was screened in some 300 largely independent theatres.

It was also released online for rental or purchase.

It is not the first time North Korea has resorted to crude insults to slam foreign leaders.

Earlier this year it called US Secretary of State John Kerry a wolf with a "hideous" lantern jaw and described South Korean President Park Geun-hye as a prostitute.

In May, it published a dispatch saying Obama had the "shape of a monkey".

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Major Disruption As London Stations Close

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Thousands of passengers are enduring major disruption after London King's Cross closed due to overrunning engineering works.

Paddington was also shut for several hours on Saturday because of overrunning works.

Network Rail said services there were "slowly returning to normal" - but disruption is expected until at least 7pm.

The King's Cross closure means East Coast and Thameslink & Great Northern passengers must start or end their journey at Finsbury Park in north London.

However, at one stage passengers there complained of being "locked in" due to overcrowding.

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And here is why. Thousands were diverted from London King's Cross which was closed due to overrunning engineering works

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All trains to and from the station were cancelled

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The engineering works also forced the closure of Paddington station

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"Apparently we can't leave the station because too many people are trying to get in to get on the train we just got off! Mexican standoff!" wrote Dean Pugh.

Another passenger, @missakis, posted: "It's an absolute nightmare here. No information, except woman with mouse like voice. Nobody can hear her. Crowd is massive."

National Rail said it was forced to temporarily close the station "due to overcrowding" - prompting delays around the country.

Finsbury Park is now reopen - but significant queues remain.

The disruption comes as thousands of people are travelling following the Christmas break.

Passengers have been advised to defer their journeys until Sunday or Monday where possible.

A reduced service to and from King's Cross will go ahead as planned on Sunday, with trains leaving up to 20 minutes earlier than normal.

An East Coast spokesman said: "We apologise for the continued disruption to journeys today, after Network Rail engineering work north of London King's Cross station was not completed as planned.

"Our very strong advice to customers is to avoid travelling today.

"Finsbury Park station was temporarily closed for a short period on police advice and to allow time for the backlog of passengers to be cleared."

Network Rail said the engineering work is part of a £200m Christmas investment programme.

A spokesman said: "What has happened is really regrettable and unfortunate, but it is a small part of a massive amount of engineering investment taking place over Christmas."

The Department for Transport said it was "extremely disappointed" and had contacted Network Rail to demand an explanation.

East Coast Trains - which serves Peterborough, Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow and Aberdeen - said tickets for Saturday would be valid on Sunday and Monday, and that passengers affected for 30 minutes or more could apply for compensation.

First Great Western - which runs to and from cities such as Cardiff, Exeter and Oxford - said tickets for Saturday would be valid for Sunday, or passengers could ask for an abandoned journey refund.

Anthony Smith, chief executive of Passenger Focus, said: "It's deeply frustrating and annoying for passengers.

"Doing works at Christmas in this filthy weather, things can go wrong - I think passengers understand that. The acid test is how are the delays dealt with - are there plenty of staff out there, is the information good?

"We're hearing reports that there aren't many staff at Finsbury Park and information is patchy."

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Mourners Remember Boxing Day Tsunami Victims

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Survivors and families of victims have gathered across Asia for memorials to mark 10 years since the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.

Around 230,000 people died after a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's western coast triggered a series of huge waves in the Indian Ocean.

The rising waters caused devastation across the region, striking countries as far apart as Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Somalia.

The wave swept the whole of the Indian Ocean's shoreline, also hitting the coasts of India, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Maldives and Bangladesh.

Around six hours after the start of the disaster the coasts of east Africa - Somalia, Tanzania, Kenya - were struck by the wave.

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Gallery: Sri Lanka Marks 10th Anniversary of Indian Ocean Tsunami

Tsunami survivors offer flowers as they pray at a graveyard to commemorate the victims of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami on December 26, 2014 in Peraliya, Sri Lanka

A Sri Lankan local dancer stands in a graveyard in Peraliya commemorating victims

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Sri Lankan Buddhist monks attend the Alms Giving Ceremony for remembrance and prayer for the victims

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A young Buddhist monk prays for the victims at the Alms Ceremony

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Sri Lanka was one of the worst hit countries of the 9.1 magnitude quake with around 35,000 deaths

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The tsunami caused widespread destruction to many coastal communities.

Thousands of foreign holiday-makers were also killed.

The vast majority of Indonesia's 170,000 victims perished in Aceh province, among them tens of thousands of children.

Some 7,000 mourners gathered on Christmas Day in Banda Aceh for the first of several memorials.

Aceh governor Zaini Abdullah led the event at the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque.

He thanked Indonesians and the international community for their support in the aftermath of the tsunami, which he said had helped the area recover.

Teuku Ahmad Salman, who joined thousands at the service, said: "I cannot forget the smell of the air, the water at that time ... even after 10 years."

Indonesia's Vice President, Jusuf Kalla, led a prayer ceremony where he and other officials placed flowers at a mass grave where thousands of unknown victims were buried.

In a statement released to mark the anniversary, Prime Minister David Cameron praised the "real resilience" of those who have rebuilt their lives.

He said the UK Government had provided almost £300m to support the reconstruction of affected areas.

Some 151 British nationals killed in the tsunami.

"Today we think of all those for whom Boxing Day is no longer a happy festive celebration but the day they lost a loved one in the Indian Ocean tsunami," he said.

"At this poignant time, my prayers are with all those remembering people who were caught up in the disaster, including the 151 British nationals who lost their lives.

"In the face of tragedy and adversity, hundreds of thousands of people have demonstrated real resilience to rebuild their lives and millions more have shown extraordinary generosity to help those affected."

More than 100 survivors, along with bereaved relatives, held a memorial service on a beach in Khao Lak, Thailand.

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Indonesian rescue workers remove a body from the fence of the Grand Mosque in the city of Banda Aceh

Refugees cover their noses from the stench of bodies

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They walked into the waves and laid flowers in the sea, while diplomats placed wreaths on the sand.

Crowds also gathered and laid wreaths at the country's tsunami memorial park in Ban Nam Khem, a southern fishing village which was decimated.

More than 5,000 people were killed in Thailand, about half of them tourists.

In Indonesia, staff members at the German, Austrian and Swiss embassies held a minute's silence to remember the victims.

In Sri Lanka, the water swept a train from its tracks, killing almost 2,000 people.

The train, including five of the original carriages, decorated with Buddhist flags, symbolically recreated the journey, carrying survivors who mourned the dead and missing.

:: A special documentary, Tsunami: Ten Years After The Wave, can be seen on the Sky News Catch Up service.

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A Jordanian pilot has been captured by Islamic State militants after his plane was downed during coalition air raids in Syria, the Jordanian army says.

An army statement read on state television said: "Jordan holds the group and its supporters responsible for the safety of the pilot and his life."

Jordan did not say whether the plane had been shot down but said it had crashed during a Jordanian air force "military mission against the hideouts of the terrorist group".

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said IS supporters said the plane was brought down near Raqqa city, a stronghold of Islamic State fighters in northern Syria.

The militants claimed to have used a heat-seeking missile.

The IS in Raqqa published photographs on jihadist websites purporting to show its fighters holding the captured pilot and showed a military card identifying him.

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The plane was said to have been brought down near Raqqa city, a stronghold of Islamic State fighters in northern Syria

Several photographs were released, including one showing the pilot, wearing only a white shirt, being carried from water by four men

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High Street Sales To Reach Â£342bn In 2014

By Sean Dilley, Sky News Reporter

Britain's retail sector is celebrating a record-breaking year as official figures are projecting an all-time high for sales in 2014.

The forecast from the Office of National Statistics shows that sales for the year are expected to reach £342bn - a £48bn increase since 2010.

Pre-Christmas sales are up by 5.2% compared with last year.

The Government says the High Street is fighting back with successes not limited to online retailers and big hitters.

Estimates from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills indicate a record-breaking year for independent and small businesses with £72bn in turnover.

Britain's retail successes have been credited in part to national promotional days like Black Friday and Panic Saturday.

But small businesses have benefited too, with more than £500m being taken across the UK on 6 December, which was dubbed Small Business Saturday.

Sky News spoke with Aylesbury residents Helen and Hannah Meade, a mother and daughter who have been taking advantage of Christmas bargains.

They explained how a modern Christmas is about putting money aside, about spending cleverly and shopping around for the best deal.

"We make a budget for each child," Hannah Meade said.

"And we save for four months ahead of Christmas. This year it's not too bad because I've put money aside to do some shopping for next year in the January sales."

Commenting on the retail figures, Business Minister Matthew Hancock said: "The return of the high street is fantastic news and goes to show that we are on course for prosperity."

Labour however has warned against complacency based on projections.

In a statement, the party said: "Britain's retail sector leads the world in innovation, supports thousands of jobs and we want to see it go from strength to strength.

"But sadly under the Tory-led government, across the board growth has been patchy, unbalanced and unsustainable, benefiting only those at the top."

Christmas debt is certainly a real issue for many. The latest figures from the Bank of England show that unsecured consumer loans, excluding student loans currently stand at £167.9bn.

Of that, credit card debt accounts for £60.83bn in October alone.

Mike O'Connor, chief executive of the debt charity StepChange, told Sky News: "Draw up a budget. How much money have you got coming in, how much can you afford to spend.

"And if you have still got a problem after your budget, you are in debt, go and talk to the people you owe money to, go and talk to the banks, the energy companies because they should help you."

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Glasgow: Woman Saw Daughter And Parents Killed

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A woman saw her teenage daughter and parents "killed almost right in front of her" in the Glasgow bin lorry tragedy - moments after she reportedly left them to withdraw money from a cash machine.

Jacqueline McQuade saw the aftermath of the crash which killed six people, including 18-year-old daughter Erin McQuade and parents Jack and Lorraine Sweeney.

The victims of the runaway council truck - which veered on to the pavement and drove up to 300 yards out of control before crashing into the side of a city centre hotel - were remembered at a special church service today.

Primary school teacher Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow, and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, were also killed.

Another 10 people, including the driver, were injured.

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Gallery: Victims Of Glasgow Bin Lorry Crash

Jacqueline Morton, 51, who had left work early to collect her granddaughters

Stephenie Tait, 29, was a teacher at St Philomena's Primary school

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Gillian Ewing, 52, was also killed in the accident

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Jack Sweeney, 68, from Dumbarton, was killed along with his wife and granddaughter

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Erin McQuade, 18, with her grandmother Lorraine Sweeney, aged 69

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Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia held a mass at St Andrew's Cathedral for all those affected by the tragedy.

He told those gathered that he spent time with those who had lost their loved ones in crash.

"On the evening of the tragedy, I was privileged to be permitted to spend some time with one of the families who had been cruelly devastated by the incident," he said.

"I was able to witness and share the grief and sadness of a mother and of a father for their daughter, and of two daughters for their mother and father.

"The distressed woman to whom I was speaking had seen her daughter and her own parents killed almost right in front of her. Can you imagine the horror?

"I tried to console them and comfort them. We spoke and we cried and we were silent before the abyss of their loss and the random meaninglessness of what had happened.

"They openly spoke of their faith, but their faith was sorely tried, and I commended them silently to god that the Lord would find the way to bring them comfort."

A statement released on behalf of the family of Jacqueline Morton said: "Partner John, sons Adam, Scott and the family are deeply shocked and saddened about the tragic accident on Monday culminating in the loss of our Jacqueline.

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A service to remember the victims of the disaster will be held at Glasgow's St Andrew's Cathedral at 1pm

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"We would like to pass on our thoughts and prayers to other families affected by this tragedy.

"We would like to pass on our thanks to the people who got to Jacqueline first and also to the emergency services at this difficult time."

A £60,000 council fund for the relatives of those killed will be open to the public for donations.

Paying tribute to the victims at the scene of the disaster on Monday, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the tragedy had left the city "broken-hearted".

"This city will pull together to support those who have been affected, not just in the days ahead but in the weeks and months to come," she said.

The driver and five others remain in hospital, with one patient said to be in a critical condition.

It is not yet clear what caused the driver, who has not been named, to lose control of the vehicle.

Witnesses reported seeing him slumped at the wheel as the lorry collided with pedestrians on Queen Street, before crashing into the side of the Millennium Hotel at George Square.

Hundreds of floral tributes have been laid at the site of the disaster.

Personal tributes from friends and relatives of the victims are also pouring in.

Headteacher of the Glasgow primary school where Ms Tait was a teacher, Catherine Gallagher, described her as "an excellent young teacher, dedicated to the children."

Mr Sweeney, meanwhile, was a former president of Bramalea Celtic supporters club in Canada.

The club released a statement expressing "great shock and sadness" about his death and the death of his wife and granddaughter.

Miss McQuade was a first year student of English Literature at Glasgow University. She worked at Cameron House Hotel on the banks of Loch Lomond, which described her as "one of our brightest and dedicated members of housekeeping staff".

The lorry disaster was the second major tragedy to strike Glasgow in just over 12 months.

Last November a police helicopter crashed on to the roof of a crowded pub, killing 10 people.

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By Afua Hirsch, Social Affairs Editor

Two whistle-blowers who had information about MPs' involvement in a paedophile ring could have been murdered, according to a Labour MP who has handed a dossier of evidence to Scotland Yard.

Speaking to Sky News, John Mann claims he has evidence relating to the suspicious deaths of two men – a former Lambeth council official named Bulick Forsythe, and a caretaker whose name he did not disclose.

He said the police were already aware of the potential link between one of the deaths and the child sex abuse ring, which involved "highly influential" politicians during the 1970s and 1980s.

Although Mr Mann has now handed the information to the Metropolitan Police, he has been aware of it since the 1980s and 1990s, when he said the police declined to fully investigate.

"Bulick Forsythe had significant information in relation to child abuse. The second was a caretaker who said he had tapes relating to sex parties that were taking place," he added. "Mr Forsythe went to the police at the time and got nowhere. What I want to see is both those suspicious deaths reinvestigated."

His dossier includes 22 names of MPs he believes were involved in paedophile rings in north Wales, Lambeth, Dolphin Square in London, Rochdale, and one other location which he declined to name for legal reasons.

The MPs named include 14 Conservatives, five Labour politicians and three from other parties. Of them, 13 are former ministers.

Mr Mann told Sky News that he has given the police enough evidence on some of the suspects that he would expect the police to act "soon".

"I am confident there will be people arrested," said Mr Mann. "In some cases I'd be surprised if it didn't happen soon."

The prospect of arrests for child abuse by MPs is likely to intensify calls for an inquiry into the historical allegations.

Home Secretary Theresa May has been dogged by setbacks after two successive chairs were forced to resign over their links to establishment figures in positions of power at the time.

Mrs May said last week that the inquiry should have the powers of a statutory inquiry in order to compel witnesses to give evidence but members of the panel are reported to be "devastated" that the existing inquiry, which has started preliminary work, is to be disbanded.

Scotland Yard detectives were already investigating "credible" claims that the murders of three young boys - aged between seven and 16 - were linked to high-profile abusers, including MPs. One victim was allegedly run over by a car.

Last Thursday, a fresh appeal was launched for further victims of historical abuse at the Dolphin Square estate, in southwest London, to come forward.

Children were allegedly taken to sex parties at the plush property, which was popular with politicians.

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US Families Prepare For 'Modern Day Apocalypse'

By Dominic Waghorn, US Correspondent

From the outside America may seem to be a land of endless optimism and confidence. But could it be in danger of falling apart?

An increasing number of Americans seem to think so, and they're preparing for the end.

They call themselves preppers. Mainstream suburban Americans hoarding supplies and weapons while leading otherwise perfectly normal lives.

It's a national phenomenon and it's supporting a doom boom industry worth many millions.

Braxton Southwick is a typical father-of-six in Salt Lake City, who believes the nice suburban neighbourhood he lives in could soon be swept away by some kind of modern day apocalypse.

Like other preppers, he's afraid of some impending catastrophe but also what that will do to American society.

"I think that is what I'm scared of the most," he told Sky News, "Not the actual events. I've already prepared for that. It's the aftermath, when there are no police, there are no military to protect us, we're going to be protecting ourselves."

The trigger could be a terrorist attack, a monetary collapse, cataclysmic failure in power generation, or a natural disaster. Preppers fear what comes next and have no faith in either their government or human nature.

"Once people use up all their resources, they're going to come after the people that prepared and had more resources. So basically we have to take care of ourselves."

Braxton and his wife Kara have a basement that will see them through Armageddon, literally. Enough dried and canned food to last six months. Enough guns and ammunition to turn their family into a small army.

And they have trained each of their six children, including the youngest aged 15, how to defend themselves with guns to see off the mobs of marauding looters they predict could come after them after their world collapses.

At the other end of America, another family are preparing in exactly the same way. In Virginia, Jay and Holly Blevins hoard food and weapons and run a network of like-minded families.

"We're not talking about folks walking around wearing tin foil on their heads," Jay tells Sky News. "We're not talking about conspiracy theorists.

"I'm talking about professionals: doctors and lawyers and law enforcement and military. Normal, everyday people. They can't necessarily put their finger on it. But there's something about the uncertainty of our times. They know something isn't quite right."

Jay is a celebrity in the strange but increasingly mainstream world of preppers, writing prepper books and touring America, speaking at prepper expos where a bewildering range of survival supplies and techniques are on offer.

Why is it happening? Partly, no doubt, because it allows Americans to indulge in some of their favourite pastimes: consuming, camping and buying lots and lots of guns.

And partly because fear sells, drives up numbers for cable news, and increases sales for everything from dried food to assault rifles.

But it's also arguably a sign of a country coping with economic decline. The end of the American Dream has left people more uncertain about their future, and their country's.

Katy Bryson is in Jay's prepper network. Prepping, she says, puts Americans back in charge of their destiny.

"They're not in control of whether they lose their job or not but they are in control of whether they are prepared. So I feel like that's why the industry is just booming right now for preparedness," Katy added.

It is also a fundamentally American phenomenon. In a country built on the radical individualism of its founding fathers, people have an inbuilt mistrust in their government's ability to protect them.

Sociologist Barry Glastner wrote The Culture of Fear. He told Sky News: "Americans are fairly unique as world citizens in that we tend to believe that we control our own destiny as individuals to a much greater extent than we really do."

Ironically, he points out preppers may actually be reacting to their fears in the least effective way. Dangerous weather, terrorist attacks and economic collapses are all best dealt with by higher authorities, he said.

"Where there are real dangers, to take an individualistic approach is usually exactly the wrong thing to do. So the kinds of things that the preppers are preparing to protect themselves from are much better handled on a community-wide basis than they are in your own home."

:: Dominic Waghorn meets the preppers in The Doom Boom, this Tuesday at 9.30pm on Sky News.

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Bin Lorry Crashes Into Shoppers: Six Dead

A bin lorry has smashed into a crowd of Christmas shoppers in Glasgow city centre, killing six people.

The number of people injured is believed to be in double figures.

The crowd were believed to have been waiting to cross the road outside Queen Street station by the Millennium Hotel in the centre of the city.

As many as six ambulances are at the scene, along with the police and fire service.

People are thought to have been thrown up to 15 metres from the site of impact. Pictures showed people being treated along the street.

A woman who witnessed the entire event told Sky News: "The only way it stopped was actually hitting the building.

Sky correspondent James Matthews who is at the scene asked the witness to tell him about the people on the pavement who had been hit.

The woman said: "I can't do that."

She went on to say: "When something is coming up behind them like that, how can they run out of the way? There was noise and bangs and screams…

"There was a baby in a buggy. There were actually two little kids. It was just horrific."

Sky's James Matthews said: "There is no structural damage to the hotel. It is not a situation whereby people have died. This is bang in the middle of Glasgow's shopping area.

"It did collide with pedestrians before ramming into the structure and that has contributed to the casualty count."

A Police Scotland spokesman confirmed there is an "ongoing serious incident" in Glasgow's George Square close to Queen Street Station.

Lauren Gilmore, a shopper in George Square, said: "Just over a year ago, we had another tragedy in Glasgow – it was the helicopter crash. And now this has happened again just before Christmas."

Witness Connor Gillies a reporter with Radio Clyde told Sky News that the whole of Queen Street has been cordoned off and emergency services are arriving by the minute.

Describing the scene on Twitter, Brett Molloy tweeted: "Christ something major has kicked off at Queen St."

"Whole of George square is shut off, bodies on the road. Scary man. Horrible, horrible scenes. Even worse at this time of the year. City centre is an eerie, eerie place right now."

The Scottish Fire Service tweeted: "Firefighters are in attendance at a serious incident in Queen Street, Glasgow. Our crews are working alongside other emergency responders."

Janey Godley tweeted: "Utter horrific carnage people on ground getting triage street poles smashed into pavement emergency services all over it.

"Local shop keeper says bin lorry and taxi involved & lorry mounted pavement #georgessquare

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The rubbish lorry crashed through shoppers in Glasgow before hitting the Millennium Hotel in St George Square. Pic: Radio Clyde

The rear of the lorry protrudes from the front of the hotel

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