Olympic games drill to test London’s emergency services

A large-scale exercise to test how the emergency services will need to react if a major incident strikes during the London 2012 Games will be staged tomorrow.

Lessons learned from the July 7 bombings will feed in to the two-day live exercise — dubbed Forward Defensive — in central London.

The disused Aldwych underground station, near London’s Royal Courts of Justice, will be the scene of a mock incident on the tube network. Passersby will be able to spot people being evacuated as part of the mid-morning test.