A spokesman for London Fire Brigade said it is responding alongside the Metropolitan Police to reports of a person scaling the Palace of Westminster.

A Met Police spokesperson said: "At 7.24am on Saturday March 8 officers were alerted to a man climbing up the Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of Parliament." Man climbs Big Ben with a Palestinian flag.

A man, allegedly intoxicated, climbed an 80-foot mobile tower in the Barkhedi area of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, and was later ...