Multiple blasts paralyse London

[PorkyFatBoy]

I live in Suffolk, but my office is St Paul's. Hoping they'll reopen Liverpool St overground later, otherwise I've bagged the meeting room table for a bed! What about you - where are you?

[Braddie]

By Oval, so it is a 40min walk. You are welcome to crash if you need to.

[Guest]

Seems likely it was to do with the start of G8, certainly thats what the BBC is implying.

However, who is to say that terrorist cells were not also prepared to do the same in Paris had they won the olympic bid.
Watch out for yourselves, to those in London.

Klebe

[Porky (not logged in)]

By Oval, so it is a 40min walk. You are welcome to crash if you need to.

Thanks,

Liverpol St is now reopened, so I'll be able to get home...just not sure when!

[SJ]

horrible news to return home to.

caroline - i hope you managed to find your way back to derby ok!

[mharky]

I hope no one had to go through London to get their flight to JWOC today...

[Tatty]

Heard from Lizzie Adams' parents last night that the JWOC flight got out okay.

[ryeland of doom]

Arrived back at Edinburgh ignorant of the news, and was pulled in for questioning. I was in a strop thinking it was G8 related hassle, they did not tell me anything.....

Quite embarrassing, but nothing compared with the feeling of pure anger towards the cretinous lowlife murdering scum that did this...

[Braddie]

Coming into London today I had The Specials - Ghost Town playing in my head.

Everyone seems a bit jittery, stations are being opened & closed due to bomb scares.

[bendover]

i was heading into london at 10am yesterday, there was a security alert at basingstoke and we all got pulled off the train, i left my portfolio on there in the confusion, arse!

got into clapham an hour later, very strange, all quiet, no trains. was supposed to be in old street/shoreditch area for an exhibition i was helping out at - the second years on my course were having their opening show, they's raised 14,000quid over the last two years in preparation for thursday night; it all got cancelled.

last night i went out in brixton. it was fine. went for dinner, hung out in a couple of bars, watched a movie, went for late night noodles. london is a strong city, the ethnic dviersity is incredible and this incident won't stop the citizens moving forward and living normal, peaceful lives.

[Danailov]

f**k terrorism!

[bedders]

All getting slightly scary now:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4667713.stm

Birmingham city centre evacuated and

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4667713.stm

Manchester Piccadilly closed due to a suitcase left on a train, I go to that station pretty much everyday, even in summer.

[gross2006]

move east.... no worries... Mr Putin looks after us here:)

[mharky]

It's always good to have the former head of the KGB as your leader.

Move out of London might be easier

It's very sad and tragic that all these people lost their live and were injured. But what about all the people caught up in Afganistan and Iraq when we invaded??? So quick to blame. But it's our own fault for going to war with them. Same with IRA, if we didn't invade their country then they wouldn't retaliate.

[Guest]

No matter what one thinks of the rights and wrongs of invading brutal and oppressive regimes, such actions can never justify acts against civilians such as those in London.