‘This city will not forget’: Nottingham comes together to mark a ‘darkest day’

Thousands of people attended the vigil and observed a minute’s silence. Photograph: Tim Goode/PA

When the residents of Nottingham woke up on Tuesday morning to find police cordons scattered across the city, no one could have anticipated what had happened in the early hours.

Then the horror gradually emerged – three people had been stabbed to death in the street and three others injured when a van mounted the pavement and mowed them down.