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Plans to protect public places, railway stations and other key buildings from terrorist attacks are due to be launched by the prime minister.Plans to protect public places, railway stations and other key buildings from terrorist attacks are due to be launched by the prime minister.
The security minister, Lord West, was asked to draw up the proposals after the summer's attempted bombings in London and at Glasgow Airport.The security minister, Lord West, was asked to draw up the proposals after the summer's attempted bombings in London and at Glasgow Airport.
He is understood to believe that more needs to be done at the design stage. Gordon Brown warned that attacks could hit "anywhere and from any place".
Mr Brown is also due to unveil a report on a planned border force combining immigration, customs and visa staff. He is also due to unveil a report on a planned border force combining immigration, customs and visa staff.
Shattered glass
Lord West had been asked to look at ways of strengthening security on the transport network, in public areas such as sports stadiums and shopping centres and at utility sites.
He has called for architects to include anti-terror features in new buildings and projects, it is believed.
BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said that that the minister has recommended that access roads leading to stations and crowded areas should be constructed so that drivers cannot build up speed.
Lord West is also understood to have said that windows need to be more carefully positioned - to minimise the risk of injury from glass shattered by an explosion.
But he has added that features such as barriers need to be as unobtrusive as they can be, and that efforts should be made to minimise disruption to people's day-to-day lives as much as possible.
Local communitiesLocal communities
Lord West had been asked to look at ways of strengthening security on the transport network, in public areas and utility sites.
BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said that the minister has concluded that access roads leading to stations and crowded areas should be constructed so that drivers cannot build up speed.
Lord West is also understood to have recommended that windows need to be more carefully positioned - to minimise the risk of injury from glass shattered by an explosion.
The unified border force was first announced by Mr Brown in July.The unified border force was first announced by Mr Brown in July.
As part of a range of security announcements, the prime minister is expected to update MPs on measures to counter radicalisation and extremism in local communities. A study led by the cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, considered whether it should include police officers as well as those from the Border and Immigration Agency, Customs and the overseas UK Visa operations.
As part of a range of security announcements, the prime minister is also expected to update MPs on measures to counter radicalisation and extremism in local communities.
Writing in the Sun newspaper, he said: "Terrorism can hit us anywhere from any place.
"But just as the terrorists use every method and the very freedoms we enjoy to kill or maim people, so we musty also adopt new tools to beat the terrorists, secure our borders and create a safe global society."