Saturday will also see large numbers of football fans in town for the soccer match between Nottingham Forest and nearby Leicester City, an economically depressed conurbation which has a one of the UK's biggest Muslim populations.
The city center is expected to be packed with families doing their pre-Christmas shopping and attending the annual German street market. It remains to be seen if the British authorities are aware of the dangers identified by US intelligence services and whether the mainstream media is willing and able to report on what's really happening on the streets of Britain.
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