
Swindon and Brighton stations evacuated.
Probably every police force on uber-alert, and any suspicious packages being treated as deadly.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:15, archived)

from on one of the tubes
moblog.co.uk/view.php?id=77571
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:19, archived)

If that was a bus, that's really not good.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:12, archived)

are completely borked for me - I knew I'd get the information I needed from here...
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:12, archived)

that everything is under control
he confirms 6 explosions but it is still confused.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:13, archived)

try the BBC News server farm in New York: www.b3ta.com/talk/622997
Although the www.bbc.co.uk servers are borked in both the UK and New York, the News servers are still working.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:15, archived)

"the timing raises the suspicion of terrorist activity"
Well no shit. Good analysis there.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)

has finally started carrying Sky News.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:06, archived)

(don't know if it's domestic or BBC World) which is better to watch?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:12, archived)

but none exactly springs to mind.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:08, archived)

Chances are that it isn't, but I'd rather the news people reported news, rather than random speculation.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:11, archived)

where four bombs were accidentally left on public transport ?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:13, archived)

we've all done it.
MM, take your head out of your arse and smell the C4!
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:14, archived)

but I couldn't say for a fact.
Besides, I love Radio 4, and will defend it to the ends of the earth, even if I am wrong.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:15, archived)

at this point there is no way it could be anything else. I think they should be at least using the words "would seem to be" by this point.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:14, archived)

What the fuck else causes four bombs in one morning ?
PMT ?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:09, archived)

how often do busses and trains spontaneously and simultaneously explode? It's obviously terrorists - jumping to conclusions would be saying 'It must be al-Queda'.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:11, archived)

Don't forget that most of it seems to be around the City. Far too much of a coincidence. To back up Mr Tea's statement, don't forget Oklahoma City, first reports were that it was Islamic militants...
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:12, archived)

it could be organised crime. Haven't you seen Die Hard 3?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:14, archived)

It'll probably be banned, now, as it's far too instructional...
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:19, archived)

what's the latest? are there any fatalities? I'm getting 'bodies everywhere' on some reports and 'a few injuries' from the Beeb.
Sorry, I don't think you are my potentialterroristattackdescribingbitches ;D
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)

www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,2763,1523084,00.html?gusrc=rss
"Laura Matthews, a press officer at Universities UK, with offices in Tavistock Square, said there were bodies lying around the bus explosion, some without arms or legs. "Get people down here quickly," she sobbed. She thought a bomb had gone off and was trying to evacuate her office."
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:09, archived)

Simon Corvett, 26, from Oxford, was on the eastbound train leaving Edgware Road tube station when the explosion happened.
"All of sudden there was this huge bang. It was absolutely deafening and all the windows shattered. The glass did not actually fall out of the windows, it just cracked. The train came to a grinding halt and everyone fell off their seats," he said.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:12, archived)

...thought was working today.
Have made a mistake and am not.
Now trying to keep phone in signal in event of a major incident callout.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:02, archived)

but you will be too far away to do any good until tonight
got o bed and have a snooze
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)

....it will be a few hours whilst the London hospitals do all their triagey stuff in A & E before us regional burns types get a call.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:11, archived)

/feeling decidedly twitchy as I can do fuck all without the magic registration confirmation from the GMC
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:27, archived)

offficial governm,ent statement
showing sniffer dogs in russel square on TV right now
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)

Up to 90 casualties on one of the tubes. I hope that means they are not using the military slang for fatalities, and they actually mean injuries.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)

and not to be heeded.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)

as they only give details of people they've confirmed the identities of, IIRC. Think of the tsunami reports.
Bah, I'm off for lunch.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:05, archived)

think everyone is planning to invade erm...
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)

Dad was supposed to be in London today but the meeting place changed. Thank gawd.
And what if it's the IRA? Isn't this the time of year they usually start going nuts?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:02, archived)

They're more like a straggly gang rather than serious terrorists - more likely to hit you for protection money than blow up the Home Secretary.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:05, archived)

Ta for the info.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)

If Gerry has any sense, he'll be on the TV in 10 minutes looking very sheepish.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)

"Survivors reported a distinct smell of onion and body odour coming from the tunnels shortly before the explosion"
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)

( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)

that's how bombs work.
If you mean dirty bombs and that - don't worry. The risk is low except to those close to the bomb, who'll be in a bad way anyway.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:09, archived)

Hound's Ditch? (Sorry, not familiar with London that much)
Image from Tavistock Sq.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:55, archived)

confirmed it's serious. Nothing more.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:58, archived)

needed an authority figure to tell us that......
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)

and not, say, staring at a child's book for 10 minutes...
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:01, archived)

The stock market just dive bombed...
I just lost about £3000, I know its hardly the most serious thing happening today.
Still watching ITV news, nothing new just yet...
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:59, archived)

there are bloodstains on the buildings around the bus.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:01, archived)

( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:53, archived)

Mobile phone networks seem fucked too.
I've only just got in, backlog of trains getting into London.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:54, archived)

Fuck that.
Trains are running, late but running....
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:01, archived)

Bloke on 5Live just said that they switch the mobile netowrks off wen shit like this happens so they can't be used to trigger more bombs.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:56, archived)

except the emergency services rely on mobile phones
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:59, archived)

rely on mobile phones alongside their short range radio systems
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:03, archived)

Bloke on 5Live just said that they switch the mobile networks off when shit like this happens so they can't be used to trigger more bombs.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:56, archived)

actually.
*hugs in a manly relieved fashion*
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)

Wonder who did it. And if it's to do with the G8 or the Middle East. Probably not the Olympics; something like this would have taken long term planning.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:55, archived)

and makes more impact if the world knows their people will be where these type of things can happen
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:57, archived)

buses exploded about an hour later, so people had time to rush off tube onto buses first...
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)

no tv here at work and every site seems to have different info.
Thanks.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:46, archived)

terrible injuries now official from home secretary
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:51, archived)

packs quite a punch, that Charles Clarke, but he's no John Prescott.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:52, archived)

and we could update you and annoy evil lu all in one go!
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:47, archived)

have to go and teach in a second. Hope its being blown out of all proportion (pun unintentional). To be honest, i only know a few people in London and the chances are that they are fine. It's shocking cos it's closer to home, but the entire western world is a target for terrorism so we shouldn't be surprised. And nows our chance to show the americans and the spanish how to do things tastefully.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:51, archived)

the opposite is now clear it seems.
The blasts are far worse than we first thought
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:53, archived)

These blasts are designed to cause chaos rather than fatalities.
If they just wanted to kill, they would have hit slightly earlier, and gone for the mainline station forcourts with nail bombs etc.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:54, archived)

Seriously, I'll stay on and report what the News are saying. I feel like a journalist.
/snorts coke
/pays bribe to plod for info
EDIT: Wow, has Karen from the USA on the Beeb now got some holiday snaps to show when she gets home.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:47, archived)

Could you just transcribe it onto here? Thanks.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:49, archived)

(for some stuff...)
*memories of TMS at work :)*
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:52, archived)

Just tried to get a live feed through Media Player, and it looks like their server as melted under the strain.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:08, archived)

Nothing to beat the Victoria Beckham - 9/11 joke yet.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:50, archived)

most news sites fall over at times like this, you're better off filtering forums.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:49, archived)

You have a choice of several hundred to choose from. The San Luis Obispo Tribune is my tip, it shouldn't fall over any time too soon.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:52, archived)

to fulfil my breaking-news events.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:56, archived)

If I do say so myself.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:52, archived)

I didn't think about the stock market angle either until I saw your post.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)

but your blog is blocked by websense....
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:02, archived)

claiming it's not helpful to link a bomb on a bus and an accident on the tube.
Just called the Tube stuff "a natural disaster". Hmmm...
UPDATE: Prime Minister is "taking this very seriously". Cheers, Tone.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:40, archived)

says it is clearly a co-ordinated deliberate attack
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:41, archived)

www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=354944&in_page_id=1770
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:41, archived)

Nice to see they're not scaremongering.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:15, archived)

this is what happens when Alistair Campbell is in New Zealand. They need a coordinated response!
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:42, archived)

god, that must mean something, maybe it means we are soul mates?
or we had crap educations and can't read properly
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:47, archived)

08:47 simulatenous bus and tube incidents.
Co-incidence....
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:44, archived)

one of the planes hit the twin towers?
/conspiracy theory
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:47, archived)

perhaps he'll be punching his palm, pacing to and fro and muttering ominously today.
I suspect he's slowly turning into a mime.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:44, archived)

BBC uk might have fallen over, but God bless the World Service web stream.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:45, archived)

Dont read all the reports whilst listening to sad music, makes you bit tearful :'(
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:45, archived)

making sure George Bush is okay.
When he makes his statement (drafted four years ago, no doubt) with his fucking Sincere Face I'm going to throw something at the TV.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:13, archived)

An unidentified aircraft has just hit Big Ben and has landed in the Thames.
A suspicious number of people have started farting and burping.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:36, archived)

close to Russell Sq? I'm shit at London Geography. I can't work out whether it's one or two confirmed buses.
Also... pic for Aldgate
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:35, archived)

i only know because the guy on bbc news24 got confused about the same thing, only one confirmed bus atm
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:37, archived)

Union sources say that 3 buses may have exploded.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:27, archived)

Tom Cruise was caught in bed with Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20. Also, Hawkus is a twat.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:29, archived)

I like the idea of sky news getting all their 'eyewitness' stories off Popbitch...
Has anywhere other than sky mentioned busses or bombs?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:37, archived)

I've just got back from shopping... is it the apocalypse?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:28, archived)

and exploding busses. It's the end of the world.
But, chin up, worse things have happened at sea.
Disclaimer: its looking increasingly likely that this will be no laughing matter. Just like 9/11...
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:32, archived)

AICMFP.
Either that, or your map reading skills leave much to be desired.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:38, archived)

I thought you meant that Madrid was closer than London.
My board reading skills leave much to be desired!
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:48, archived)

I mean, I know the French are jealous about the Olympics, but this.....
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:32, archived)

We have had a security alert, I'm going to have to ask you all to leave the board via any available exit and move clear.
Please remain calm.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:24, archived)

because we got the Olympics
One fatality on the bus/ top deck blown off
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:21, archived)

doing it before the voting...
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:22, archived)

Big Ben has toppled into the Thames!
Cholera in the streets!
Plymouth devoured by sea monster!
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:21, archived)

Teenage ASBO thugs wearing more caps than this time last year
*Applies for position at Daily Mail.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:41, archived)

entire underground closed
people trapped in trains in tunnels.
no report of serious casualties
edit/ there are some serious head injuries caused by the train coming to a sudden halt.
edit/edit/ a bus has blown up - this is serious
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:13, archived)

the French energy company EDF???
I think not...
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:18, archived)

eye witnesses reporting seing 'limbs' on trains !
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:15, archived)

about 15 minutes ago.
BBC relying on blokes on mobiles to report the news.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:15, archived)

a train has derailed after a loud bang. Serious head injuries for some passengers.
they are talking to him now, walking wounded have been removed from the train now
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:16, archived)

"walking wounded" at Liverpool Street and one person with their life at risk.
Morning all!
Edit: and pffft!
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:17, archived)

Raleigh Choppers do look a bit spazzy with stabilisers on.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:30, archived)

the government sent out been any good at all? Not one bloody bit I would imagine. People are probably milling about and getting in the way of emergency services, asking questions and bing a nuisance regardless.
edit: I've seen about 20 different stories about it and at least 3 say there was a a possible train collision and one which cited a police officer as saying there was one.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:18, archived)

They have had a reporter on the scene of the bus explosion at Tavistock square, plus they are discounting the news about power surge.
Simulataneous bus and train explosions = terrorist attack.....
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:20, archived)

Someone please explain, its too early (and im blonde)
Are you jus messing around or has this actually happened?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:32, archived)

Any more news? - rumours of 30 dead at Aldgate, bus explosion at Russell Square, plus Edgeware Road, Old Street, Bank, and a bunch of other places.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:06, archived)

in fairness a bomb at Russell square wouldnt go amiss, student cunts*
*unless it has in which case thats awful
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:09, archived)

I would have thought they would have changed to a newsflash (like they did on 7/11) if it was big.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:09, archived)

If they had two months' warning, couldn't they have stopped it happening?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:10, archived)

en.wikinews.org/wiki/Explosions%2C_%22serious_incidents%22_occuring_across_London's_Underground_system
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:09, archived)

says 1 person in "life-threatening condition".
Power surge blamed.
Seb Coe thanking God for waiting 24 hours
BBC site gone tits up with people a la 9/11. Best places, then to get news, if that's the case, are football365 forums and popbitch.
UPDATE: News 24 showing Hazmat wearing plods going into the stations.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:11, archived)

1) Responsibility has been claimed by a sleeper cell of the Symbionese Liberation Army
2) It is a government-induced panic to get ID-cards pushed through
3) Mossad are taking out prominent terrorists who have claimed asylum in Britain.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:13, archived)

needs to be arrested and questioned. All I'm saying...
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:14, archived)

ITV1 has cut to rolling news
Could this be this be Al'Quaeda (sp?) attack?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:15, archived)

try newswww1.thny.bbc.co.uk/ through newswww9.thny.bbc.co.uk/
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:18, archived)

Or so i believe... an underground station or summink?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:36, archived)

SKY says a bus has 'exploded' in Russel Square.
This sounds pretty big....
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:59, archived)

and was greeted by a house makeover program featuring a rather butch blonde in a skirt. That has to be a man.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:04, archived)

shit when reporting facts, though.
equation:
Sky news = (truth + guessing) x 5
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:20, archived)

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659093.stm
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:38, archived)

should have been at Liverpool St at about that time and isn't on MSN now. hasn't replied to a text yet either
/concerned
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:42, archived)

to happen to us on a monthly basis at school. You get very held up, very bored, and very frustrated.
It's not fun but if s/he can cope with Liverpool Street at rush hour they'll be grand. They've most likely been held up somewhere else along the journey.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:43, archived)

you had to check your station was open or stand outside for an hour while they checked for bombs. They even stripped out all the ceiling linings so bombs couldn't be hidden which made it look even more decrepid that it already was.
The bloody Irish terrorist bastards
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:46, archived)

was when they uncovered the mainland's largest ever IRA bomb factory round the corner from school, and we all went up to the top of the multistorey to gawp at the blood spattered front door where they'd gunned someone down, no doubt as his picked up his milk bottles.. That's what you used to get going to school in Hammersmith.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:50, archived)

what have you done woman?
in other news, we have our first detractor
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:55, archived)

particularly as comments have to approved by the moderator
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:03, archived)

that he has banners advertising 'Crazy Frog' above the entry :P
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:59, archived)

Do you think that's a sign of over-possesiveness?
I've been implanted, but I'm milking the bandage as if it was a proper injury!
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:58, archived)

The same arm that already has weird lumps in it, so I shall be a veritable freak show now :D
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:03, archived)

streets of Wimbledon were a force to be reckoned with.
/rock 'ard, me
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:01, archived)

most of the wombles have been arrested in Edinburgh this week..
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:04, archived)

in your skimpy tennis skirt whistling the Wombling Song.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:03, archived)

I think the London Traffic Centre's computer has achieved sentience.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:48, archived)

eh?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:51, archived)

after a few years back when some cunts blew up a tourist bar there.
And also because an Australian was recently sentenced to 20 years for smuggling marijuana there, even though the Australian Court of Public Opinion decided that she was innocent. Of course, it doesn't have anything to do with her being an attractive young woman...
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:55, archived)

Come live in London. It started in the second world war and has been bombed ever since on a regular basis.
The only way to live with it is humour.
edit/ Coincidently I had a drunken conversation with a Norwegian girl in a pub in Oxford Street on Tuesday.
She had come back from Paris and realised how much damage London had sustained in the war from bombing only after seeing how intact Paris was.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:57, archived)

but you have to realise that we're kind of sheltered here. The only worry we have about war is how to surrender if the Indonesians suddenly decide they want a bit more land.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:00, archived)

Well..well...*flips through excuse book*
"The cause of the problem is:
Incorrectly configured static routes on the corerouters."
(the excuses may be more tailored towards Computing Professionals...)
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:01, archived)

I got stuck at "Boss's kid has fucked up the machine."
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:08, archived)

yesterday for the first time. wierd.
/it wasnt me
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:51, archived)

that weird is it now really. I used to work round the corner from there, back in the days before the gherkin made it interesting ;)
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:52, archived)

I've only been in london for a year, so this is all new to me.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:54, archived)

news24 are interviewing commuters who were on the train, there have been some injuries
Liverpool St station.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:38, archived)

northern line was cunted beyond belief, there are power failures all over the place... would explain it
/ning you :) feeling any better?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:43, archived)

that died in that bomb.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:48, archived)

Was it coincidence that everywhere you lived there was an 'incident'?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:52, archived)

Bloody apocalyptic horsemen, coming over here and stealing our immortal souls.
/Daily Mail at the End of The Universe
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:43, archived)

*panics*
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:44, archived)

it will fuck everything up here. Thank god I dont have to get the tube
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:48, archived)

Have the pills kicked in yet, or do you still feel like crap?
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:52, archived)

That a man with a European accent dropped half a ton of English food onto a power grid.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:51, archived)

half a ton of English food can be dropped in a froeign accent.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:56, archived)

you might actually be onto something here. French saboteurs! I say we invade them before they do anything else!
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:56, archived)

and have redesigned the French flag accordingly; it's now a white cross on a white background.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:02, archived)

I have visions of their uniforms just being made from lots of white detachable panels.
( , Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:04, archived)
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