News & Facts about London bombings

[liam88]

I'm alright! Got back from London yesterday and frantically been trying to make sure my uncle in Russel Sqaure is alright (he is!). Was up at my St. John Ambulance division tonight-the adults got called out to cover Guildford while the Surrey Ambulances went to London. As a cadet I wasn't required. Thank you so much for the concern it means so much.
To the scum who bombed London today you will never win! You are filth and cowards and you will NEVER beat us!

[dahamsta]

Liam's profile (http://foot.ie/member.php?u=1479) reckons he was online just a few minutes ago.

EDIT: Heh, beat me to it.

[Babysis]

I had to walk from oxford circus home. i dont care. I cant comprehend what has happened to people i see everyday on the tube. im upset, angry and shocked. I was very lucky. My tube pulled in at the time of the bomb at kings cross going off. my driver saw a flash as we puled in and sent staff on the evacuated station to check on it - didnt think anything much of it at the time. I know im lucky, and i know im grateful, but i cant stop thinking of those poor people. i personaly dont want to read posts about people being thrown from their seats on the bus or how much blood there was. i know everyone deals with things differently, but if im honest i was reduced to tears in my office earlier reading some of them. Its all pretty raw for anyone in London, and its each to their own, im not kickong off. I think im just goign to leave everyone to it, and go to bed soon, as I have to be on the victoria line or central london buses tomrrow. im upset, and ive had enough, sorry.

[liam88]

I cannot belive this. I just can't.....

Babysis, LEmudo so glad to hear you are ok-Peader I am praying for you mate. I can't believe it I was on those trains the day before yesterday. I watched it unfold in the college canteen-the same tv we cheered when London got the olympics yesterday. I jsut cannot believe this is haoppening. Thank you so much guys for all the concern-you all rock

This is a terrible day :(

[liam88]

Is Lopez ok? He drives the tubes

[sylvo]

Is Lopez ok? He drives the tubes


He's grand Liam, he's in the depot's office this week so was in the thick of sorting things out, got a text from him a couple of hours after it happened.

[liam88]

PP, Reitoir so glad your ok

[Babysis]

Is Lopez ok? He drives the tubes

everyone is accounted for. He and his wife are ok.

[liam88]

everyone is accounted for. He and his wife are ok.
:) great news-sorry am a bit behind.

[Colm]

I think it's a lot more scary when you hear about something like this happening in London than it is when you hear about it in New York or Madrid or whereever. I mean, we have all been in London so many times and know people living there. Any of us could have been caught up in it really.

I hope the get the scum that were responsible for this. Cowardly sumbags.
It's sickening really.

Glad to hear you're ok Peadar.

[liam88]

I'll remember today for the rest of my life. Sitting int he libary chatting to this girl-biggest worry was that some teachers earlier said my GCSE's might not be good enough for Oxford....how insignificant it seems now. My friend came in and said "we're under terrorist attack" I asked him what he meant and he said "London's just been bombed". Ran to the canteen where the tv is.......exactly where everyone was cheering yesterday when the Olympic result was announced....now it was just silent. I stood there watching in horror and realised that Russel sqaure is where my uncle lives I said "what have those people on the bus ever done to anyone"...the boy next to me goes "what have the people in Iraq ever done to anyone? Look at it fromt heir point of view"....I could have punched him but instead jsut said "They didn't invade Iraq they might be anti-war, they might not even be Enlgish-they were just going to work to get money for their families"...he said "yeah" and shut up.
Ran into English and a few of us set up the tv in there.....still 2 dead...still trying to get in touch with people. One lad trying to find out if his dad was ok, one girl crying in another class ebcasue her mum was there-all the phones down.
Anger, fear, sorrow, hate.....after yesterday I can't believe the difference. Just been watching the TV stunned-it hasn't sunk in-2 days ago that was me, my brother and my grandparents in London.....I'm preying the death toll won't rise again. I wasn't even there and I'm nearly crying. I can't believe this has happend.

[pete]

I'm ok. Was on the train in Aldgate that exploded.
Can't really talk about it now.

Wasn't online today much. Only seen this now. Hope you doing ok fella.
Really personalises the tragedy.

:(

[Troy.McClure]

i know everyone deals with things differently, but if im honest i was reduced to tears in my office earlier reading some of them. Its all pretty raw for anyone in London, and its each to their own, im not kickong off. I think im just goign to leave everyone to it, and go to bed soon, as I have to be on the victoria line or central london buses tomrrow. im upset, and ive had enough, sorry.

You've got my sympathy, support and admiration. I dont know how anyone could even think of 'getting on with things' tomorrow, let alone this week or even month.

All the best everyone.

[Plastic Paddy]

You've got my sympathy, support and admiration. I dont know how anyone could even think of 'getting on with things' tomorrow, let alone this week or even month.

Nil carborundum illegitimi est. It's the only way.

:ball: PP

[liam88]

Guys I'm off to bed. England is going to be a very different place tommorow morning. Disgraceful actions today. Humankind has sunk to the very lowest but the people of London has shown it at it's very highest. Solidarity.

[Plastic Paddy]

England is going to be a very different place tommorow morning.

No Liam, it won't be. And that's the beauty of it. Like Ken Livingstone has it, we'll carry on using all forms of public transport (albeit more wary than before). Londoners are made of harder stuff. These *******s won't deflect us from leading our lives normally.

:ball: PP

[thecorner]

good to see the foot.ie contingent are all safe and sound but spare a thought for all those affected

[lopez]

Been one f*cking w*nk of a day. Had to sort out drivers, etc. One of our blokes was taken to hospital for shock after witnessing the explosion at Aldgate. I'm also annoyed that it took almost half hour for it to be confirmed that on the same line it wasn't a power surge but a bomb and that a train was allowed to leave Edgeware Road (from the bloke in the bed on TV) with people on it just to prove it. And I only heard about it all from a station manager ringing to ask what was wrong with the railway, because he'd heard that there had been an explosion. That, to echo the words of Jocelyn Brown, was when the sh*te hit the fan.

Had a bit of a scare from Conchita. Told her after hearing the initial news (power surge again) to get a bus from Waterloo to Euston. Then heard that a bus had been turned into a convertable on the route she was to take. Thankfully she's OK.

Peader: Hope you are OK mate? Take it was the Edgeware Road train you were on.

[liam88]

No Liam, it won't be. And that's the beauty of it. Like Ken Livingstone has it, we'll carry on using all forms of public transport (albeit more wary than before). Londoners are made of harder stuff. These *******s won't deflect us from leading our lives normally.

:ball: PP
I meant it in that way-tommorow there will be a new unity in England! And I for one am proud to be part of it.
Echoing setiments I am so glad all foot.ie folk are physically unhurt. RIP all who died (38 tonight) and all injured and maimed. God pelase bless them and their loved ones.

[Troy.McClure]

Been one f*cking w*nk of a day.

Well thats one way of looking at it :D

glad to hear that everyone is in one piece.

[hamish]

Good to know that all Footie members in London have all reported in and are unhurt.

I hope you all get some rest tonight - will be very hard, I know.

[paul_oshea]

the sound of silence.the errie sound of silence.

walked from southwark up to london bridge onto wood green about 10 miles, it was unreal, hoardes and hoardes of people just walking saying nothing just walking. i wanted to almost film it to give an idea. was something i have never seen and will probably and hopefully never see again. met bridgets friend who is a policewoman on teh way home she got surrounded by people, peadar her b/f laurence a policeman was on teh same tube as you just by chance ( off duty ), he was carrying people off, was unable to describe also.

i dont know, i get on with these things and dont like to make too much of it, however i havent been affected like the 3 or 4 that i know, so i cant say. all i would like to say though is chin up. keep going. :)

[Metrostars]

Yeah Paul, I experienced sometime similar over here after 9/11. For me it was the absence of planes. I work not far from a small airport so I am always used to planes taking off and landing, there always seems to be something in the sky. But for the few days after 9/11 when everything was grounded it was very quiet.

This is an awful terrible tragedy. Not much else to say except I'm thinking and praying for those people who had to experience it today. As PP said, you just have to get on with it and the city and country will bond closer together. After 9/11, everyone here was suddenly nice to each other, even petty crime went down for a while. Sadly it has worn off, much of that due to the shenanigans of W & co.

[sligoman]

good to see the foot.ie contingent are all safe and sound

No they're not, anyone seen LondonRover (http://foot.ie/member.php?u=3723) online?

[hamish]

Yeah Paul, I experienced sometime similar over here after 9/11. For me it was the absence of planes. I work not far from a small airport so I am always used to planes taking off and landing, there always seems to be something in the sky. But for the few days after 9/11 when everything was grounded it was very quiet.

This is an awful terrible tragedy. Not much else to say except I'm thinking and praying for those people who had to experience it today. As PP said, you just have to get on with it and the city and country will bond closer together. After 9/11, everyone here was suddenly nice to each other, even petty crime went down for a while. Sadly it has worn off, much of that due to the shenanigans of W & co.

George Galloway has already blasted Blair in House of Patliament but this is probably for a different thread. My next door neighbour's son works in NY and made similar comments to yours, Metrostars, the eerie quite in the aftermath.

[Green Tribe]

I am so saddened to hear what happened today and I immediately thought of you all in London, hoping that you were all safe. Unfortunately i could not get on foot.ie at work, but throughout this evening i have seen that all are accountable on foot.ie. Peadar, I cannot imagine what you have witnessed, my thoughts and prayers are with you and all the foot.ie gang in London and of course all those injured and murdered today. RIP :( :(

My relatives in London are safe, it took until 1230 to get through by phone.

Take care all! :)

[Babysis]

CAme in to work today by tube. didnt really want, but its got to be done. Got a call on my way to the tube to say that Euston had been closed due to a security alert. there are going to be alot of them now. Our tube stopped at Euston and Kings cross for 30seconds, really awful sitting at King Cross knowing what happened the same time the day before. At euston we saw the police searching the platform, whcih is reassuring i guess. Nothing will change really, gotta get on with it.

[Pauro 76]

Peadar im glad your ok mate. God only knows what your mind must be going through right now. It's just such a shock to the system, it affects us all, all we can hope is that we can get back to our normal lives again although it will be difficult. people looking out for each other like this has restored my faith in humanity. I was well out of the city when it all happened but to everyone asking out for me by pm and on the site, thank you. and to everyone on this site, keep going.

[Babysis]

They have just had a press conference: got this from sky news (http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1188412,00.html)

Here is the latest:

Ian Blair: More than 50 fatalities.

Still bodies on tube train between Russell Square and King's Cross.

Twenty-two people in a critical condition in hospital. Three hundred and fifty people treated in hospital, 100 detained. One person died in hospital. Seven hundred casualties in all.

[Troy.McClure]

Just hoping that ye guys are doing ok today, it must have been a long night last night.

[Babysis]

Just hoping that ye guys are doing ok today, it must have been a long night last night.

I dont know about Peadar, but i think "paul o shea" walked home like we did. We were the lucky ones, walked as far as camden and then a friend came and got me and my colleagues. Sepnt the eveing like loads of other people staring at the TV. And like most people it was a case of getting on the tube this morning and getting on with it. the tube was silent, and very empty. everyone was pretty nervey, especially when euston got evacuated. Its going to happen a lot now becasue everyone is more aware. Im just looking forward to going home this evening.

[Babysis]

Good luck to you Louise. Keep the chin up and keep going.
Don't let the bas tards win.

Christ im the lucky one. I didnt see anything, i didnt get caught up in things really.
We watched and waited. We had to walk home, but who cares. At least i could get home. There is a horrible feeling in the city today, its a feeling of having to get on with it, like you said, we cant let them win. our tube driver stopped at kings cross this morning. its just an empty platform, but every single person on the tube, which admittedly was quieter than normal, bowed their head. No more that we can do right.

Its probably naiveity, or maybe its the fact im only 22, but i like most people with me yesterday were scared. scared for others and scared for what might happen next.

The next time i see the lights flicker in a tube station, or hear a station being closed i will think twice.
I personally will never forget July 7th 2005, or any of those poor people.

[paul_oshea]

i think like tuff paddy says you just have to get on with it. i know its difficult for some but thats what you got to do. just woke up now, we were told not to come in, cant beleive you are in work louise. anyhow just looking at the news 6 still missing, but one guys phone was on til 3 yesterday, but no news from him, some people may be in such shock that they could be walking round london aimlessly, this happened in new york as well, when someone was located in a mental hospital 3 months later. bridget saw some guy at around caledonian road, just walking and saying i saw a bomb blown up in euston, but not saying it to anyone, just out loud, hope he got home ok also. :)

dont worry about getting the tube tonight, nothing is going to happen, you will be fine.

[Babysis]

We were told today is another working day. Not very productive, and my boss is fine about me checking the sky news website constantly. Im not scared of being on the tube as such, i think everyone os just a bit nervey.

you just have to get on with it

[paul_oshea]

just heard on the bbc news there, a woman said the bus was pretty much empty that exploded, which says a lot, thank god for that, if it had been full that would have been a hell of a lot worse.

[dahamsta]

If that's the case why is it taking so long for them to confirm the number of deaths at that location?

adam

[paul_oshea]

good point. but lets just hope that they never do i.e. there is no more. have they not capped it at 50?

[Babysis]

If that's the case why is it taking so long for them to confirm the number of deaths at that location?

adam

exactly. I can only assume its a long slow process due to identifying people as well as the forensic side of things. I dont think its need to be spelled out why identification could be taking so long.

[dahamsta]

Fair point, although there's a difference between identifying people and counting them. No Paul, I don't think they have capped it at 50. The last official comment I've seen says it's more likely to be 50 than the current official 37, but it won't be more than 100.

adam

[Lionel Ritchie]

As it's now looking less and less likely to have been the work of suicide bombers -these assh0les are on the loose.

according to met commissioner Ian Blair there's nothing to suggest the bombs were the work of suicide bombers.

Seemingly the ones on the trains were on the floor and they're pretty certain the one on the bus was on a seat in a "metal box". That would dovetail with a report that the bus was less than full as I'm guessing a suicide bomber would try and take as many with him a s possible.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1188412,00.html

[pineapple stu]

From Aertel -

POSSIBLE IRISH VICTIM IN UK BOMBS
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Concern is growing that there may have been at least one Irish victim in yesterday's attacks in London.

Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern told RTÉ News he and his department have 'serious concerns' about the fate of an Irish passport holder who has been living in the UK for some time.

Speaking in Dundalk, the minister said that they have been unable to find the person whom, it is believed, may have lived elsewhere before moving to the UK.



Fairly relevant to the thread as a whole, I think. From what I can see, most foot.ie-ers are (relatively) OK?

[paul_oshea]

yes appears, so that sounds rather strange though?? not that it matters but does that mean he is a vegabond or something like that? how come they cant identify where he has been before? strange :confused:

[Babysis]

The press conference has said the following, again taken fromsky news (http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1188495,00.html)

::
Thirteen people confirmed dead on bus at Tavistock Square.

:: All bodies have been removed from the bus.

:: Sir Ian said it was clear from the timing of the explosions that they could not have been carried out by one person.

:: Tube system back to a "substantial service".

:: On Monday at City Hall, a book of condolence will be opened.

:: A bombings relief fund will be opened on Monday in conjunction with the Red Cross.

:: Sir Ian said it will be "business as ususal" after the weekend.

:: Twenty-three forces are involved in running the emergency calls bureau.

:: Two police officers were in Tavistock Square when bus bomb exploded who worked with colleague injured in the blast to help victims.

:: Mr Livingstone said all emergency plans for a terrorist attack "worked like clockwork".

:: Appeals renewed for anyone with information on the attacks to call anti-terrorist hotline on 0800 789 321.

[liam88]

No they're not, anyone seen LondonRover (http://foot.ie/member.php?u=3723) online?

:( :( not yet-getting worried,preying he is ok.
Am doing ok today-was in Jurys Inn across from Kings Cross 2 nights before with a load of mates on SJA event-in a way it's a shame we couldn't help at all. Hope you are doing ok Peader and all other Londoners-am heading up on Sunday for VE day parade-show the *******s we won't be moved.

[liam88]

I know i'm a few miles outside London but from updates from both the news and friends it is obvious that the Police, Fire and Ambulance services were amazing. Ken Livingston could not have been more right about the clockwork running of the plans. I also want to say well done to St. John Ambulance and the Red Cross-while the NHS ambulances from the surrounding counties headed to London these two took 999 calls from the counties-In Surrey 10 NHS Ambulances left to London and were replaced almost immediatly by 6 St. John and 2 Red Cross Ambulances. By all accounts the blood service did a smashing job getting blood to the attack sights. The Salvation Army also set up vans with food, water, people to talk to-these are the kind of organisations that often get forgotten but did an amazing job yesterday. The hotels were also incredible from what I hear-providing blankets, water etc.
My brother was in Hatfield 4 years ago and I've seen how amazing all these people are and what a great job the do and did again on Saturday. Anyone involved/with relatives involved should be really proud.

[thecorner]

london rover: Last Activity: Yesterday 10:56 PM

[liam88]

london rover: Last Activity: Yesterday 10:56 PM
Good stuff-hoping/preying it was not an automatic login.
Jon'O thanks for the concer mate glad you are ok :)

[Babysis]

I give blood regularly anyway, but when someohting like this happens on your doorstep, it makes you realise how important it is that as many people as possible give blood. The emergency services derve a huge amount of praise. Many nurses were caught in the blasts, but still went on to help others.

[Babysis]

Just to follow on from what was said earlier about Irish victims - This is from Breeakingnews.ie


One Irish person in hospital following London blasts
08/07/2005 - 16:12:41

The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that one Irish person is among those being treated in hospital after the London bombings yesterday.

The man's family is now with him at the hospital in London.

Victims from countries everywhere were caught up in the atrocities.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair gave another update on injuries this afternoon.

He said there were people being treated in hospital from Sierra Leone, Australia, Portugal, Poland and China.



Apologies if thishas already been mentioned :o

[sylvo]

Wasn't affected myself personally yesterday in all the mayhem my brother had all the travel nightmares though and had too call it a day on getting to work yesterday morning, but today I have been caught in the spill over that has been everybody taking to the roads and motorways and the motorways were just gridlock.

Was in Collage for four hours this morning, and the transport was fine, got a train from Edmonton in North London to Liverpool Street bang on 07.10 like it should be Which on a normal day and not being funny never happens, and then a central line train to Leytonstone in East London and everything went great and was into collage in less than an hour, trains were empty and Liverpool Street had Police everywhere, but the transport seems to be nearly back to normal.

When I went into work in the afternoon different story, there's been reports all day about the transport but people have just been taking to the roads, the motorways have been like something out of the movie Independence day with traffc just siting for hours, meself included.