At two of the country’s largest Christmas markets, in Birmingham and Manchester, the new security was easy to spot. “We've spent a long time planning the policing operation around the Birmingham Christmas market,” Superintendent Andy Parsons, in charge of city center policing in Birmingham, told Sky News. Meanwhile, the terrorist threat in the U.K. hasn't abated. On the one year anniversary of the Berlin attack, in which Anis Amri hijacked a vehicle and drove it into Berlin’s main Christmas market, the market in Germany is closed for the day. The official terrorist threat level for Britain is "severe," indicating an attack is considered highly likely.

Source: Fox News December 19, 2017 15:32 UTC