DUBAI: The UK has seen a recent upturn in the number of people applying for self-defense classes, after the country was hit by three terror attacks, British daily The Times has reported.
Apparently there has been an increase in interest in classes, from people wanting to learn how to protect themselves in an attack. 
One self-defense school told the newspaper it had seen inquiries increase by 10 times following the London Bridge attack a week ago.
And another instructor said they had seen waiting lists “backing up”as they looked for staff to teach classes. 
Reece Coker, UK chief instructor at Combat Academy, which has seen a 70 percent application increase since the London attacks in March, said many people felt there was nothing they could do.

“But with the style of attack that we saw at London Bridge, killers roaming the streets with knives, there is a sense, rightly, that there is,” Coker explained.
However the advice given by the British government advises against people trying to be heroes, and instead to “run, hide, tell.”

The London Bridge attack saw bar doormen and restaurant staff credited with saving lives after they threw objects at the attackers as they ran through the streets slashing people with kitchen knives.