July 2005 London bomb blasts: UPDATES AND NEWS ONLY - NO DISCUSSION

[dogmatique]

It's really weird outside on Regent Street - no buses, hardly any cars, just bunches of confused looking tourists.

Going to be walking home in a while, and was going to avoid Whitehall like the plague - then I thought that it's probably one of the best protected places to be in London right now...

 

[Lisarocket]

Hope all the people who assumed three immediately, on reading an unsubstantiated, unconfiirmed rumour here that it was three, now feel slightly ashamed.

It's bad enough what we know to have happened, without egging the pudding even further.

The BBC said it was three...you'd think they would be a reliable source

 

[innit]

Phone networks seem to be recovering.... have got a call through to a landline atm.

 

[IntoStella]

So who's been staring blankly at their 'work' all morning?

<Raises hand> Three page feature on the relative merits of various top-dressing machines. Not really gripping at the best of times.

Apparently the whole of LT is shut down.

Oh christ, it's a long walk from Hammersmith to Brixton.

 

[Zaskar]

Oh this is just terrible. My thoughts are for those killed, injured and afraid.

 

[madzone]

Hope all the people who assumed three immediately, on reading an unsubstantiated, unconfiirmed rumour here that it was three, now feel slightly ashamed.

It's bad enough what we know to have happened, without egging the pudding even further.

No - because this is an updates thread and people are posting up information as it comes in from various sources such as BBC etc. No-one is scaremongering, people are just passing on information as it becomes public.
So, please shut the fuck up now wiliam. This isn't the time or place to be getting on your high horse.

 

[harpo]

Everyone who can't get through on the phone, please try not to worry. Statistically, they're very unlikely to be harmed.

 

[pcanning]

am sitting in work in cambridge and finding it very hard to cope with colleagues just getting on with work as if nothing's happened! everybody has their own way to cope I suppose ...

 

[Cid]

Pretty horrible pictures of casualties on beeb

Apparently bringing out people who were closer to blast now

 

[jugularvein]

Everyone who can't get through on the phone, please try not to worry. Statistically, they're very unlikely to be harmed.

thank you. please let this pass, and when the smoke clears....it wasn't as bad as we all thought

 

[pengaleng]

jesus! the bbc just showed some dude covered in soot on a stretcher coming out the back of an ambulance they were tryin to start his heart

 

[stroober]

The Met Police commisioner has said that it has the hallmarks of a major terrorist attack

 

[Dubversion]

ITV says 20 dead

 

[Dante]

Tony Blair to make a statement at 12.00
on R4, Five Live, and on Beeb1 etc.

 

[nightqueen]

The BBC said it was three...you'd think they would be a reliable source

It was three- only one has been confimed as a bomb blast.

 

[clandestino]

Pretty horrible pictures of casualties on beeb

Apparently bringing out people who were closer to blast now

just watched them. makes you feel sick...

 

[Wookey]

Anyone know if the BBC site is down??

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Up and down regularly I think.

 

[Balbi]

The IOC must be shitting bricks right now.

 

[stroober]

 

[J77]

Anyone know if the BBC site is down??

It's not.

National Express suspended in and out of London - bbc ticker.

 

[xes]

also sitting here at work pressing refresh on the boards.

It seems so surreal,and I'm not even in london.

hope this all ends soon.

 

[Wookey]

Cheers Buddy.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

The IOC must be shitting bricks right now.

IOC?

 

[girasol]

The Met Police commisioner has said that it has the hallmarks of a major terrorist attack

No shit!

Can't quite bring myself to look at the pictures...

 

[stroober]

Anyone know if the BBC site is down??

all good 30 secs ago

 

[Major Tom]

No shit!

 

[Balbi]

IOC?

International Olympic Committee, I know it's an aside.

 

[pcanning]

american news sites not doing much yet, still not the lead on many. cannot get anything but text on uk sites, BBC just now getting it together. urban 75 really proving itself this morning.

 

[Mr Retro]

Emergency Services and all those involved in the emergency seem to be doing a great job.

Well done to those