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'Darling, are you carrying a knife?'

By Andy Davies

Updated on 27 May 2008

Parents have a duty to ask their teenagers if they are carrying a knife the Metropolitan Police commissioner warns.

Urging families to help tackle the crisis in youth violence, Sir Ian Blair said a stop and search blitz across London had resulted in 200 extra arrests, with more than a hundred weapons seized.

But hours later a 27-year-old man was stabbed during a robbery in Sidcup, the Kent town where teenager Rob Knox was stabbed to death this weekend.

And there've been a series of other stabbings across the country in the last 24 hours.

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