At least two people were killed, and several more injured, in a knife attack in Romans-sur-Isere, in south-eastern France.

A man has been shot dead by police in Westminster after brandishing two knives at officers in a non-terror related incident.

London police have arrested a man on Thursday after a stabbing at a mosque near Regents Park which injured one person.

French police officers shoot dead a man who threatens them with a knife in Paris.

A man employed at police headquarters in Paris has been shot dead after killing four people with a knife.

In the recent cases of knife crimes, two women were stabbed in Greenwich within minutes of each other and a teenage girl was threatened by a man with a knife near the Cutty Sark on Tuesday afternoon.

The rise in knife possession by women and girls is directly linked to gang culture and the peer pressure employed by gangs to trap girls into crime.