About 150 shoppers and staff have been evacuated from a shopping centre in the West Midlands.
People were forced to leave The Potteries Centre in Hanley at around 4pm today due to a police incident.
“The Potteries Centre is on lockdown,” a witness told StokeonTrentLive. “People are saying something has happened in one of the shops in Hanley. It’s bad, loads of people are crying.”
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