45 people confirmed dead now according to Sky
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45 people confirmed dead now according to Sky
Good to see you're ok Steve.
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From RTE
Police in London have said at least 33 people were killed in a series of explosions in the city this morning.
Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick said there were likely to be more casualties.
Seven people died in the first blast in a tunnel 100yds from Liverpool Street Station,
21 died in a blast at King's Cross/Russell Square and
five died at Edgware Road station in an explosion involving three trains.
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Does that still have to include the bus? :confused: :(
Map here
they have changed that number to state at least 33 nowQuote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
I was wondering that too.. he posted this morning but haven't heard anything since, hope he's ok :(Quote:
Originally Posted by DCFCSTEVE
Apologies for the rumour dahamsta. the news sites seem to be pretty rubbish and all the news I'm gettin are through various forums which obviously are just normal people rather than officials. What sites are the best for keeping up to date? I'm keepin an eye on sky, bbc and breaking news but it's pretty thin news.
The mainstream website updates are atrocious, I guess I'm lucky having the tv right next to me. A breaking news service like BreakingNews.ie is probably your best bet, for the simple reason that they have access to the wires, and of course they're sitting next to a tv just like me!
EDIT: Sky News did the usual this morning, causing more confusion than anything with their reports. The web team's reports were an absolute disgrace.
Also, anyone know if video of Livingstone's speech is available anywhere?
adam
http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/mayor...ent_070705.jspQuote:
Originally Posted by dahamsta
But here's the main bit of interest:
I want to say one thing specifically to the world today. This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at Presidents or Prime Ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old. It was an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for class, for religion, or whatever.
That isn't an ideology, it isn't even a perverted faith - it is just an indiscriminate attempt at mass murder and we know what the objective is. They seek to divide Londoners. They seek to turn Londoners against each other. I said yesterday to the International Olympic Committee, that the city of London is the greatest in the world, because everybody lives side by side in harmony. Londoners will not be divided by this cowardly attack. They will stand together in solidarity alongside those who have been injured and those who have been bereaved and that is why I'm proud to be the mayor of that city.
Finally, I wish to speak directly to those who came to London today to take life.
I know that you personally do not fear giving up your own life in order to take others - that is why you are so dangerous. But I know you fear that you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society and I can show you why you will fail.
In the days that follow look at our airports, look at our sea ports and look at our railway stations and, even after your cowardly attack, you will see that people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world will arrive in London to become Londoners and to fulfil their dreams and achieve their potential.
They choose to come to London, as so many have come before because they come to be free, they come to live the life they choose, they come to be able to be themselves. They flee you because you tell them how they should live. They don't want that and nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail.
i'm not a fan of ken, but that is an excellent speech
Adam - I'm not sure about technicalities but my PM quota is used up - is there any way this could be freed up, if you know what I mean. If it costs I'll pay for it.
Reason I'm saying this on thread rather than PMing you is that I'm sure that lots of others on Footie will want to PM friends in London to support and comfort them. I'll try an use email connections if available for each member.
Sincere Apologies if the above doesn't make much sense - I was in hospital all morning and am just getting up to date with the news and horror of it all.
To all my pals in London - my thoughts are with you and I hope none of your family/neighbours/friends are hurt.
I'm not very religious but I'll get a Mass said for you all - it's all I can think of right now.
RIP to those we've lost.
Thinking of you all
SiraHamish, go in and delete all your messages!!!
thanks for the PM, my sister rang at lunch time, she's fine as is the brother in law, thankfully! She pregnant too, so it would have been a real disaster!!!
What Drumcondra Red said sirhamish, just delete some of your older messages.
adam
I'll never forget what I saw, heard, tasted, smelled of felt.Quote:
Originally Posted by dahamsta
I can't talk about this.
Thanks Drumcondra Red and thanks also Dahamsta - have done - sorry to be such a nuisance.Quote:
Originally Posted by dahamsta
Glad to hear your sister and brother in law are ok. D Red.
My relations over there are ok too - two are in police and obviously not contactable for obvious reasons but family said they're ok.
May God forgive those responsible.
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Originally Posted by Peadar
Peadar - we're all with you right now.
God help you.
[QUOTE=Peadar
I can't talk about this.[/QUOTE]
You don't have to mate. We are all glad you are alive. PM any of us if you feel the need.
Strangeirish
Ya, all the best Peadar, hope you feel better soon :o
You want to hear something funny!?
After having something so terrifying presented to me on my lap, all I have to worry about is what hotel I can get into tonight. What I saw, what I heard, what I see when I close my eyes, what I taste when I clear my throat, it's something that someone else has been forced to realise. I've not even accepted that I was 2 carriages from the bomb.
The sounds, sights, smells, feeling, these will never leave me.
I can't even close my eyes!
I can still hear the cries of pain and calls for help.
The people that I couldn't help.
I'll never forget the way the incredible people of London cared for me. This will never leave me.
I'm sorry to hear Peadar. There's nothing I can say that could remotely comfort you but you have my sympathies. :(
Sounds horrific. At least you were two carraiges away! Could have been a lot worse
It's not forgiven them I hope he'd do:mad: :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by sirhamish
Just back from my marathon hike through the West End, into the City and out again as there were no buses past Notting Hill. I walked in more-or-less a straight line from Uxbridge Road to Holborn and then up Clerkenwell Road to Farringdon. Never seen anything like the crowds I met consistently from about Notting Hill on (i.e. about five miles). Chock solid. And all walking the other way to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
I took a touch of nerves when I got to Marble Arch and the start of Oxford Street, preferring to cut down Wigmore Street for the best part of a mile, as it runs parallel but is far less crowded. Back onto Tottenham Court Road, which had no traffic but again hundreds of people walking in deathly silence. My route was to have taken me up by Tavistock Square, but I wanted to stay well clear and so walked up Clerkenwell Road to Turnmills club and thence to the agency to pick up my passport with Russian visa. Phew.
People were calm, walking along with what seemed a real sense of purpose. It was hard not to detect a sense of collective wilful amnesia; as if, by a joint effort at distraction, we could all erase the events of today. When it all starts to sink in; when we who live, work and visit London, face our first bus and Tube journeys, whenever they are, we'll no doubt all stop, think and shudder at the thought that it could have been any one of us.
I decided to take the scenic walk home via the back of St Pancras and Camden along the Regents Canal and Grand Union Canal - the though of being amidst too many people was scaring me - too long brooding on it, I guess. It was incident- and paranoia-free, thank God, so I'll leave the commentary there.
:ball: PP
- Edit - Peadar, I've just read your post. Thank God you're safe. Good luck and God bless. - :ball: PP
Thoughts go out to all those who've lost loved ones etc, and all those with horrific injuries, a sad day.
I was lucky, got off the tube at Moorgate moments before the first of the bombs went off.
has anyone heard from or spoken to liam88?
He is from Guilford, where abouts is that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon'o
Sent him a PM a good while ago but no post from him yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon'o
Glad you're unhurt Elmundo.
Surrey - in the South West of London - well away from any of the bombings.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poor Student
If he didn't go into the City today he would be fine
I thought that he had answered in this thread, but looking again, he hasnt! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon'o
He hasnt posted since yesterday & you'd kind of expect him to have posted something up!
Saying that though, isnt he involved with some ambulance group? They are probably up the walls at the moment. Hopefully he's on the right side of the trolly :o
St John Ambulance. They will definitely be called out to major incidents like this. We were put on standby for callout when the flooding hit Dublin a couple of years back, so they'd certainly be involved over there. That said, Liam's only 16 or 17 (assuming 88 is his date of birth), so would either be in cadets or a low-ranking adult, so would at least avoid the worst of the work...Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy.McClure
Yeah, I recall him mentioning something about that on some post a while back - I'm sure he's being of fantastic service, knowing how good natured a bloke he is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy.McClure
I've left a message on my MSN to get him to page me when (and if) he logs onQuote:
Originally Posted by sirhamish
What about London Rover? Anyone seen him on or heard from him yet?
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!
Liam's profile reckons he was online just a few minutes ago.
EDIT: Heh, beat me to it.
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.
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 :(
Is Lopez ok? He drives the tubes
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Originally Posted by liam88
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.
PP, Reitoir so glad your ok
everyone is accounted for. He and his wife are ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by liam88
:) great news-sorry am a bit behind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Babysis
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.