Londoners are being told to 'stay where they are, as they're safest where they are. Do not attempt to travel, and do not call emergency services unless it is absolutely necessary.'
Yeah I made it to work too, we're near the Royal free hospital in Hampstead and things have been alittle mad, We had a session that started at 11 this morning with 40 orchestra members as you can imagine the phones went mad with muso's, families of muso's and staff and staffs families .. rather a manic start to the day ..!! mind you intrue bliz fashion they all made it bar one who as stuck in Richmond. As for me I'd just travelled through Taverstock square as I do every day by bus and hour before the bus explosion, guess it's going to be hard getting home tonight... !!!
There's no reports at the moment of numbers of deaths as yet that I've heard, and we've had sky news on since things kicked off, but anyone who knows london transport at rush hour will know that bus's and tubes are rammed so deaths are to be expected, just heard on there's a huge rescue going on at Kings cross station, bus's taking people to hospital ..
:-) it's okay jess .. it'll take a big bomb to get me, .. :-) !! It shocking stuff, but guess it was coming, it was just a matter of time. still got police and amblances rushing to the hospital as Kings cross is just a few miles away from here ...
Debs is outside of London today for work- I don't know how she's going to get home. I don't know how I'm going to get home... I could walk, I guess- would take me about three hours, but I'm pretty sure there's no imminent terrorist threat to Londons footpaths...
lol .. yeah think the footpaths maybe safe ... where do you work ..?? I work in Hampstead as you know, but live in Peckham which on a good .. no bus explosion day .. takes me about an hour on the bus .. so I'm not walking !!! lucky if things aren't sorted out by tonight .. may see if I can get a taxi on our account .. the anti rooms in the studio are very good, got sofa's, sky TV, kitchen, and there's a shower next to the offices ... you should see if you can book a cash cab with Addison lee, book early .. there number's 0207 794 0660 they're reasonably priced and they'll text you the car details and text again when the car arrives .. but try getting a price and a booking now for tonight after work ..!!
Bloody hell ..!! don't ring that number .. it's my work one .. won't get many cabs through us ..!!! sorry the Addison lee number's 0207 387 8888 that may work better ..
I so wanted to make some sort of bad taste quip about it being the French as they have a history of acts of terror againts friendly countries, when things don't go thier way.
Saddly it looks like this is quite horrible, but everyone looks so bloody calm on the footage
"I had just got on tube at Liverpool Street and just before the doors shut, an explosion went off in the next carriage. Lights went out and people calmly left the tube. There was smoke coming from the carriage. On my alternative route to work, I walked up Southampton Row when I heard another explosion and people running in a panic from Russell Square."
(Michael Dunn, London)
I was 50/50 today... I work at Mile End, so I was wondering if should I take the Hammersmith/Circle/Metropolitan line from Baker Street, or catch the Bareloo line from Marylebone down to Oxford Circus and hop on the eastbound Central line. The Central line train was diverted along the westbound side of the platforms at Bank and Liverpool Street stations, and there were some announcements from the driver over the intercom which I couldn't hear with the headphones in... If I'd taken the tube from Baker Street I'd certainly have been involved- I was travelling at 8.45am this morning- near miss, huh...
OK- emergency services press conference on the radio at the moment... 32 total confirmed fatalities, with more fatalities as yet unconfirmed from the second bus explosion.
Oh my God.
The first bus explosion killed 21.
One of the tube explosions blew through a wall and into a second train... infact they think a total of three trains were involved in the same explosion, which killed 5.
7 were killed in the Circle/Central Line explosion near Liverpool Street station.
I got the bus/21 dead claim wrong- it was actually a train near Kings Cross.
I had to walk most of the way home tonight- a bus got me from E13 to E7, then the traffic stopped it going any further- I got out and started walking, saw a canal and mistook it for Regent's Canal (which stretches from the east end to my estate), walked along it for 3/4 hr before asking a fisherman where I was- I was actually going further east... ended up walking through some very dodgy east end estates before eventually seeing those three massive apartment towers near Bow (finally a landmark)... A warden at Bromley by Bow tube said "ang about- the buses are back on son" so I hopped on the number 25 and saved myself 2 hours on the footpath in the rain.
Bus went past Aldgate on the way- cordoned off, big flood lights and emergency services set up outside and no pedestrians to be seen- like that scene from Devils Advocate at the end with Keanu walking through empty New York streets, eerie as all fuck in the movie, but this was London tonight, this was reality.
The flat and everone I know in London is still intact... still, it's a bit of a worry though eh?
latest from BBC World - 34 dead and an Organisaton calling itself "The secret Al Qaeda Jihad in Europe" posts its claim of responsibility on an islamist website.
Pathetic fucknuts who have no regard for human life or decency whatsoever so they have to use acts of violence to get there point around, now thats just sick i send my condolances and full support to Tony Blair and the British People at this terrible time and hope Blair crushes these sick fucks who committed these random acts of mass murder.
//Pathetic fucknuts who have no regard for human life or decency whatsoever so they have to use acts of violence to get there point around//
Sounds a bit like Tony Blair & George Dubya, Sam! - How many innocent civillians do you think have been killed in Iraq & Afghanistan by Coalition Forces?
But yeah, it's a shit and cowardly thing to do -
Iraqi mothers holding their dead children in their hands probably thought the same about the British soldiers stationed in Iraq... not that i am blaming the British soldiers, but your view there is awfully narrowed sighted rightwingish...
i condemn that as well - all and all this war in Iraq is a load of codswallop but if you look at it in perspective it was the Russians who started it all - They invaded Afghanistan, Americans gave millions of dollars in aid and weaponary to Mujihadin fighters then turn against the Americans and form Al Qaeda, as for Iraq - Ditto with the weaponary and money only Iraq is fighting Iran and not the Soviets and here goes saddam turning against the AMericans, Ironic really. But the point is when will this killing on both sides stop?
I hope that everyone that has family and friends in London has received news that their loved ones are alive. Still waiting on some of mine. I can imagine the chaos on the Underground, having spend 3 years travelling backwards and forwards on it, and that was 15 - 17 years ago when the mass of population was not as great as it is nowadays.
They reckon no kiwis have been killed, so hopefully everyone's friends/whanau are OK (I can't believe how many of my dickhead friends are lving in london - 6! 6 I say! Am still waiting to hear from a few).
Hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but does anyone think it's a little odd that millions of people were trying to get poverty on teh G8 agenda, and it's suddenly terrorism is going to overshadow it again? Not to say it's not a real threat (it obviously is), but can't you just see teh smug satsfaction behind Bush's concerned looks?
Thank god someone else thought of that too - you're not alone on that one.
I still remember that S11 used to mean something different before 2001 too - used to be marked as a protest day against unfair international trade & Globalistion - funny how noone thinks of that anymore.
Shits me that for once in the last four years or so the western world's attention wasn't stuck up it's own arse bleating on about "Terrorists" and "Weapons Of Mass Destruction" blah blah and actually focusing on some genuine global issues - then...meh."Where were we - yeah, those fuckin terrorists!"
I've often mulled over paranoid conspiracy theories up, consider Pearl Harbour, a govt forwarned about impending japanese attack - public opinion was stacked against the US going to war against UK and allies - after the attacks, unanimous support for the war.
I've often wondered (in this very paranoid state) that maybe it was the same with S11, and the forwarned Govt making a decision between a short term sacrifice to achieve a long term goal, for better or for worse.
Again, Mr Paranoid here talking - prior to 7th July Tony Blair's rating lowest ever - least support for the war - George Dubya - same thing before S11, makes you wonder - idea maybe that they come out smelling like roses and look like great leaders, all is forgiven etc.
I'm relieved to hear my friends and family over there are ok though - I think it's a terrible and cowardly thing.
holy crap. thinking about heaps of friends and collegues over there ... feeling really helpless over here. hope you all stay safe, get home ok ...
we were watching '28 Days Later' last night when it happened and missed the news. all those creepy shots of empty London.
but i gotta say, the underground always freaked me out - so many people, so little security, once you got past the ticket barriers. hardly ever saw a copper on the platform. not that they would have been much of a deterrant in these cases ... things will change now, but i wonder what will have to change.
I'm pretty amazed at the low casualty rate, to be honest. Over a half a million people use public transport to enter London every morning. On the part of the terrorists, that hit rate's an abject failure. My sympathies to those who were unfortunate enough to lose loved ones.
that's true - morning rush from 7.30-9 is the absolutely worse time of day. i'm amazed and very very relieved that hundreds were killed. looks like the causalty rate is climbing though - 700 injured so far.
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...a hotel just up the road from where ...
...a hotel just up the road from where I live is being used as a make-shift hospital...
I've got the radio on at work, so it's all as-it-happens...
The underground network has been completely shut down, and all overground trains headed for London have been suspended...
Londoners are being told to 'stay ...
Londoners are being told to 'stay where they are, as they're safest where they are. Do not attempt to travel, and do not call emergency services unless it is absolutely necessary.'
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ooer. scary. be safe.
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yes what Jess said, take care of yourself
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Yeah I made it to work too, we're near the Royal free hospital in Hampstead and things have been alittle mad, We had a session that started at 11 this morning with 40 orchestra members as you can imagine the phones went mad with muso's, families of muso's and staff and staffs families .. rather a manic start to the day ..!! mind you intrue bliz fashion they all made it bar one who as stuck in Richmond. As for me I'd just travelled through Taverstock square as I do every day by bus and hour before the bus explosion, guess it's going to be hard getting home tonight... !!!
Sad, crazy, confused stuff. Be nice ...
Sad, crazy, confused stuff. Be nice humans wherever you are. (Yes, Winston, I'm looking at you)
Some are suggesting "piles of bodies" in the tube.
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// As for me I'd just travelled ...
// As for me I'd just travelled through Taverstock square as I do every day by bus and hour before the bus explosion
yikes
There's no reports at the moment of ...
There's no reports at the moment of numbers of deaths as yet that I've heard, and we've had sky news on since things kicked off, but anyone who knows london transport at rush hour will know that bus's and tubes are rammed so deaths are to be expected, just heard on there's a huge rescue going on at Kings cross station, bus's taking people to hospital ..
:-) it's okay jess .. it'll take a ...
:-) it's okay jess .. it'll take a big bomb to get me, .. :-) !! It shocking stuff, but guess it was coming, it was just a matter of time. still got police and amblances rushing to the hospital as Kings cross is just a few miles away from here ...
Good to hear you're ok mate. Debs ...
Good to hear you're ok mate.
Debs is outside of London today for work- I don't know how she's going to get home. I don't know how I'm going to get home... I could walk, I guess- would take me about three hours, but I'm pretty sure there's no imminent terrorist threat to Londons footpaths...
lol .. yeah think the footpaths maybe ...
lol .. yeah think the footpaths maybe safe ... where do you work ..?? I work in Hampstead as you know, but live in Peckham which on a good .. no bus explosion day .. takes me about an hour on the bus .. so I'm not walking !!! lucky if things aren't sorted out by tonight .. may see if I can get a taxi on our account .. the anti rooms in the studio are very good, got sofa's, sky TV, kitchen, and there's a shower next to the offices ... you should see if you can book a cash cab with Addison lee, book early .. there number's 0207 794 0660 they're reasonably priced and they'll text you the car details and text again when the car arrives .. but try getting a price and a booking now for tonight after work ..!!
Bloody hell ..!! don't ring that ...
Bloody hell ..!! don't ring that number .. it's my work one .. won't get many cabs through us ..!!! sorry the Addison lee number's 0207 387 8888 that may work better ..
//bus's taking people to hospital ...
//bus's taking people to hospital
WTF! Surely not the best idea right now.
Be safe all London NZM members...
lol ... you may have a point there jimi ...
lol ... you may have a point there jimi ..
I so wanted to make some sort of bad ...
I so wanted to make some sort of bad taste quip about it being the French as they have a history of acts of terror againts friendly countries, when things don't go thier way.
Saddly it looks like this is quite horrible, but everyone looks so bloody calm on the footage
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"I had just got on tube at Liverpool Street and just before the doors shut, an explosion went off in the next carriage. Lights went out and people calmly left the tube. There was smoke coming from the carriage. On my alternative route to work, I walked up Southampton Row when I heard another explosion and people running in a panic from Russell Square."
(Michael Dunn, London)
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I've just heard that the bus explosion has been confirmed as being caused by a 'suicide bomber' as opposed to a 'stationary device'...
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I was 50/50 today... I work at Mile End, so I was wondering if should I take the Hammersmith/Circle/Metropolitan line from Baker Street, or catch the Bareloo line from Marylebone down to Oxford Circus and hop on the eastbound Central line. The Central line train was diverted along the westbound side of the platforms at Bank and Liverpool Street stations, and there were some announcements from the driver over the intercom which I couldn't hear with the headphones in... If I'd taken the tube from Baker Street I'd certainly have been involved- I was travelling at 8.45am this morning- near miss, huh...
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Yeah very near miss mate .. lucky your okay though .. did you read my above post about Addison lee .. ?
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Central London is gridlocked, man- I'd be better off walking!
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OK- emergency services press conference on the radio at the moment... 32 total confirmed fatalities, with more fatalities as yet unconfirmed from the second bus explosion.
Oh my God.
The first bus explosion killed 21.
One of the tube explosions blew through a wall and into a second train... infact they think a total of three trains were involved in the same explosion, which killed 5.
7 were killed in the Circle/Central Line explosion near Liverpool Street station.
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Sorry that's 33 confirmed dead at this stage, not 32...
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From Streetmap- location of Russell Square, where the most deadly explosion went off.
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I got the bus/21 dead claim wrong- it ...
I got the bus/21 dead claim wrong- it was actually a train near Kings Cross.
I had to walk most of the way home tonight- a bus got me from E13 to E7, then the traffic stopped it going any further- I got out and started walking, saw a canal and mistook it for Regent's Canal (which stretches from the east end to my estate), walked along it for 3/4 hr before asking a fisherman where I was- I was actually going further east... ended up walking through some very dodgy east end estates before eventually seeing those three massive apartment towers near Bow (finally a landmark)... A warden at Bromley by Bow tube said "ang about- the buses are back on son" so I hopped on the number 25 and saved myself 2 hours on the footpath in the rain.
Bus went past Aldgate on the way- cordoned off, big flood lights and emergency services set up outside and no pedestrians to be seen- like that scene from Devils Advocate at the end with Keanu walking through empty New York streets, eerie as all fuck in the movie, but this was London tonight, this was reality.
The flat and everone I know in London is still intact... still, it's a bit of a worry though eh?
latest from BBC World - 34 dead and an ...
latest from BBC World - 34 dead and an Organisaton calling itself "The secret Al Qaeda Jihad in Europe" posts its claim of responsibility on an islamist website.
Pathetic fucknuts who have no regard for human life or decency whatsoever so they have to use acts of violence to get there point around, now thats just sick i send my condolances and full support to Tony Blair and the British People at this terrible time and hope Blair crushes these sick fucks who committed these random acts of mass murder.
//Pathetic fucknuts who have no regard ...
//Pathetic fucknuts who have no regard for human life or decency whatsoever so they have to use acts of violence to get there point around//
Sounds a bit like Tony Blair & George Dubya, Sam! - How many innocent civillians do you think have been killed in Iraq & Afghanistan by Coalition Forces?
But yeah, it's a shit and cowardly thing to do -
Iraqi mothers holding their dead ...
Iraqi mothers holding their dead children in their hands probably thought the same about the British soldiers stationed in Iraq... not that i am blaming the British soldiers, but your view there is awfully narrowed sighted rightwingish...
i condemn that as well - all and all ...
i condemn that as well - all and all this war in Iraq is a load of codswallop but if you look at it in perspective it was the Russians who started it all - They invaded Afghanistan, Americans gave millions of dollars in aid and weaponary to Mujihadin fighters then turn against the Americans and form Al Qaeda, as for Iraq - Ditto with the weaponary and money only Iraq is fighting Iran and not the Soviets and here goes saddam turning against the AMericans, Ironic really. But the point is when will this killing on both sides stop?
I hope the Russians love their children ...
I hope the Russians love their children too.
I hope that everyone that has family ...
I hope that everyone that has family and friends in London has received news that their loved ones are alive. Still waiting on some of mine. I can imagine the chaos on the Underground, having spend 3 years travelling backwards and forwards on it, and that was 15 - 17 years ago when the mass of population was not as great as it is nowadays.
They reckon no kiwis have been killed, ...
They reckon no kiwis have been killed, so hopefully everyone's friends/whanau are OK (I can't believe how many of my dickhead friends are lving in london - 6! 6 I say! Am still waiting to hear from a few).
Hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but does anyone think it's a little odd that millions of people were trying to get poverty on teh G8 agenda, and it's suddenly terrorism is going to overshadow it again? Not to say it's not a real threat (it obviously is), but can't you just see teh smug satsfaction behind Bush's concerned looks?
that speech of blair's last night was ...
that speech of blair's last night was quite full on - with all the world leaders standing shoulder to shoulder behind him.
Thank god someone else thought of that ...
Thank god someone else thought of that too - you're not alone on that one.
I still remember that S11 used to mean something different before 2001 too - used to be marked as a protest day against unfair international trade & Globalistion - funny how noone thinks of that anymore.
Shits me that for once in the last four years or so the western world's attention wasn't stuck up it's own arse bleating on about "Terrorists" and "Weapons Of Mass Destruction" blah blah and actually focusing on some genuine global issues - then...meh."Where were we - yeah, those fuckin terrorists!"
I've often mulled over paranoid conspiracy theories up, consider Pearl Harbour, a govt forwarned about impending japanese attack - public opinion was stacked against the US going to war against UK and allies - after the attacks, unanimous support for the war.
I've often wondered (in this very paranoid state) that maybe it was the same with S11, and the forwarned Govt making a decision between a short term sacrifice to achieve a long term goal, for better or for worse.
Again, Mr Paranoid here talking - prior to 7th July Tony Blair's rating lowest ever - least support for the war - George Dubya - same thing before S11, makes you wonder - idea maybe that they come out smelling like roses and look like great leaders, all is forgiven etc.
I'm relieved to hear my friends and family over there are ok though - I think it's a terrible and cowardly thing.
holy crap. thinking about heaps of ...
holy crap. thinking about heaps of friends and collegues over there ... feeling really helpless over here. hope you all stay safe, get home ok ...
we were watching '28 Days Later' last night when it happened and missed the news. all those creepy shots of empty London.
but i gotta say, the underground always freaked me out - so many people, so little security, once you got past the ticket barriers. hardly ever saw a copper on the platform. not that they would have been much of a deterrant in these cases ... things will change now, but i wonder what will have to change.
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holy crap, i dunno how anyone walked ...
holy crap, i dunno how anyone walked off that double decker bus.
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I'm pretty amazed at the low casualty ...
I'm pretty amazed at the low casualty rate, to be honest. Over a half a million people use public transport to enter London every morning. On the part of the terrorists, that hit rate's an abject failure. My sympathies to those who were unfortunate enough to lose loved ones.
that's true - morning rush from 7.30-9 ...
that's true - morning rush from 7.30-9 is the absolutely worse time of day. i'm amazed and very very relieved that hundreds were killed. looks like the causalty rate is climbing though - 700 injured so far.