This is all happening on Diamond Geezer's doorstep and he points out that if only the Big Brother house was still filmed in Bromley-by-Bow the whole telly monstrosity would be shut down by now.

Check Transport for London for travel updates. It's not expected the lines will reopen until at least late afternoon.

Birds eye view of Bromley-by-Bow courtesy of elbisreverri's Flickrstream under the Creative Commons Attribution license.