Good travel info is on BBC Radio London

[mandragora]

According to BBC London, there are constant updates.

Latest is the tube is not expected to open at all today.

Mainline trains are terminating well outside London. The exception is City Thameslink - which is running one train an hour. Don't know if that helps anyone, but if you're in the City and live north you *might* be able to get home.

No update on the BBC on the death-toll, but a friend of mine who knows someone inside the BMA building, which has been painted red by the blood from the double-decker bus that was blown up, counted at least 10 dead and 9 critical there.

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[keletkezes.livejournal.com]

Unconfirmed reports from friend on MSN say 45 dead and 1000+ injured.

Can't remember the deathtoll for the Bishopsgate bombing, but I remember that cos Dad heard it from the garden in Essex, 20 miles away.

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

ack.

It was the lead story on the radio news as I was driving in today. Just dreadful. :(

[fledge.livejournal.com]

Ack. Looking at that bus, I must say I was rather surprised at the low official count so far. Things still seem to be confused, and how are Sky getting hold of these (probably rather wild) estimates when our own sources are in the dark?!

Glad to know you're OK.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

I just posted, the latest figure is 37 dead and 700 injured.

Bishopsgate was zero, as I recall, and 1 at Canary Wharf.

I worked in the City when Bishopsgate happened, as now, and remember it well.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

It is awful, but things are already getting back to normal which is to the good.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

Apparently only 2 died on the bus, which is something of a miracle.

I've just posted the latest casualty figures, direct from a Met officer on the Beeb.

[fledge.livejournal.com]

A miracle indeed! Fantastic that the death toll is not bigger, and yet still tragic that there has been even one death. I'm SO glad you are OK, now you tell us you would have been right in the thick of things with a court appointment!! Eep.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

I know, I know. Eeep! OTOH, most people were okay. Thankfully.

[keletkezes.livejournal.com]

What's the difference between Post Office Tower, NatWest Tower and Bishopsgate, if any? It's just I remember the names but the only one I do remember well is Bishopsgate (and Canary Wharf, I'd forgotten until you mentioned though).

The German news is claiming it as the worst ever in London. They're also saying that we're much more used to dealing with this than them, and now they're worrying a bit about their own undergrounds.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

What's the difference between Post Office Tower, NatWest Tower and Bishopsgate, if any?

Er, well, the Post Office Tower is a tower located in the West End, the NatWest Tower is a very tall building in the City and Bishopsgate is a street, also in the City. You mean, the bombings? Bishopsgate was the biggie - it demolished the Baltic Exchange and several major City businesses nearly went under.

Canary Wharf wasn't anywhere near as developed then as now, so the damage wasn't as severe as a similar incident would be now.

The German news is right, if you ignore the Blitz. It's the worse London bombing since WWII, certainly.

I suspect that Germany isn't high on the target list, if that's any comfort to the Germans.

[keletkezes.livejournal.com]

That was what I thought, except the World Cup in Stuttgart, but then, they seem to be aiming for cities in everyday life, not major events. Which seems most odd to me; the only reason I can think of is the greater security at big events, but why not still target the transport?