Around London

The BBC's Mark Easton reports on the Beeb's reporter blog from London's King's Cross station - sort of a Penn Station, a subway and BritRail hub for London and points east, as I recall:

At King's Cross the professionalism and control of the emergency services was impressive, and the mood was one of calm, as if they'd managed to suck the terror out of terrorism. If yesterday was about the euphoria of winning the Olympic Games - today is about the horror of losing so many lives in Central London.

But if this was the work of al-Qaeda trying to terrorise Londoners, my impression from King's Cross is that they failed.

Dominic Casciani:

In fact the only places doing any business at all are the East End pubs which are all full of people quietly watching the live news coverage of the events. Anyone who knows and loves this part of London loves it because of the sheer amount of activity and noise which makes it a unique place, but today London's East End has become a very, very sad place indeed.

Jane Mower shows how seriously people must be treating it:

And even a teenager is distracted from her magazine as Tony Blair makes an announcement.

The Beeb's reporters' blog is a fascinating moment by moment look at the city's response.

Posted by Mitch at July 7, 2005 12:55 PM | TrackBack