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  1. If you're planning to travel in London you might want to stick the travel
    news on. Three lines suspended, Victoria Line, Hammersmith and City and
    Northern Line.

    I only mention it 'cos CNN is carrying a dodgy second hand eyewitness
    reports of an exploding rucksack on one of the evacuated tube trains.[1]

    BBC says it's detonators exploding with no explosives attached[2], so cross
    fingers it's just an excuse to buy that Brompton you always wanted rather
    than another tragedy.

    [1]"He said a man was carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly
    exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack.
    "The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that
    point everyone rushed from the carriage."

    [2] Dummy explosions using detonators only have sparked the evacuation of
    three Tube stations and the closure of three lines, a BBC correspondent has
    said.

  2. "Mark Thompson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    If you're planning to travel in London you might want to stick the travel
    news on. Three lines suspended, Victoria Line, Hammersmith and City and
    Northern Line.

    I only mention it 'cos CNN is carrying a dodgy second hand eyewitness
    reports of an exploding rucksack on one of the evacuated tube trains.[1]

    BBC says it's detonators exploding with no explosives attached[2], so
    cross
    fingers it's just an excuse to buy that Brompton you always wanted rather
    than another tragedy.

    Sky reported a nail bomb going off, but with a note that this may not
    actually be the case.

    http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1189833,00.html

    Are our London based people okay???

    Cheers, helen s

  3. wafflycat said:


    Are our London based people okay???


    Reporting in OK.

  4. John Hearns said:
    wafflycat said:

    Are our London based people okay???


    Reporting in OK.


    I'm going down to the Anderson shelter, to have a sing along
    to Vera Lynn with a crowd of cheerful cockneys.
    Apropos the helmet debate, I guess we'll be getting tin helmets
    here in London.

    (Hope a bit of humour is OK, as this seems to be less serious)

  5. Quoted message said:

    Sky reported a nail bomb going off, but with a note that this may not
    actually be the case.

    http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1189833,00.html

    "The man who was holding the rucksack looked extremely dismayed."

    ...suggests it was not :-)

  6. "Mark Thompson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    If you're planning to travel in London you might want to stick the travel
    news on. Three lines suspended, Victoria Line, Hammersmith and City and
    Northern Line.

    My wife just called from Holborn and says the Central, if not all, tube
    lines are shut - she rang for guidance on directions for walking to
    Paddington .. (I did suggest she goes past an Evans store and buys a Trek
    Madone ....... in my size of course!)

    RG

  7. Mark Thompson said:

    If you're planning to travel in London you might want to stick the travel
    news on. Three lines suspended, Victoria Line, Hammersmith and City and
    Northern Line.

    I only mention it 'cos CNN is carrying a dodgy second hand eyewitness
    reports of an exploding rucksack on one of the evacuated tube trains.[1]

    BBC says it's detonators exploding with no explosives attached[2], so cross
    fingers it's just an excuse to buy that Brompton you always wanted rather
    than another tragedy.

    Indeed. My parents come back from holiday on Friday and it will be
    easier than it would have been before for them to understand that having
    my bicycle _is_ actually a good idea.

    According to Radio 5, the Oval rucksack man ran up the escalators at the
    tube when the train pulled in there. I wonder if he got caught. They
    are also speculating that (1) it's "just" detonators and as such (2)
    it's some sort of scare job.

    I'm not surprised. I've been on the tube a couple of times in the last
    fortnight, and for all the huff and puff, nothing has really changed.
    People have very short memories and are generally too ignorant or blase
    to think about the threat in real terms.

    I can just hear Tony Blair: "People of Britain, we are winning the war
    against extremism. Last time it was bombs, now it's just detonators.".
    Or Ken Livingstone: "If we had had more bendy buses, these double
    deckers wouldn't have been attacked."

  8. "John Hearns" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    wafflycat said:


    Are our London based people okay???


    Reporting in OK.

    Excellent!

  9. "RG" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:


    My wife just called from Holborn and says the Central, if not all, tube
    lines are shut - she rang for guidance on directions for walking to
    Paddington .. (I did suggest she goes past an Evans store and buys a
    Trek Madone ....... in my size of course!)

    RG

    Seems a reasonable request ;-)

  10. "antgel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Indeed. My parents come back from holiday on Friday and it will be
    easier than it would have been before for them to understand that having
    my bicycle _is_ actually a good idea.

    That apart - glad you are not adversely affected by today.

  11. John Hearns said:
    John Hearns said:
    wafflycat said:

    Are our London based people okay???

    Reporting in OK.

    I'm going down to the Anderson shelter, to have a sing along
    to Vera Lynn with a crowd of cheerful cockneys.
    Apropos the helmet debate, I guess we'll be getting tin helmets
    here in London.

    And a ban on rucksacks on the Underground, which will have the side
    effect of driving off all those smelly students, tourists, visitors,
    conference attendees.... because it would be jolly bad form to put a
    bomb in a briefcase, of course.

    R.

  12. wafflycat said:

    Are our London based people okay???

    No devastation so far in Sunbury.

    --
    Dave...

  13. wafflycat said:

    Are our London based people okay???

    Present and correct. I was just busy winding up an Australian e-quaintance.

    Incident on a bus in Hackney too.

    --
    Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
    Whatever it is, I'd like it in mango & passion fruit, please.

  14. RG said:

    My wife just called from Holborn and says the Central, if not all, tube
    lines are shut - she rang for guidance on directions for walking to
    Paddington .. (I did suggest she goes past an Evans store and buys a
    Trek Madone ....... in my size of course!)


    Tell her to hurry. They might sell out!

  15. "dkahn400" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    wafflycat said:

    Are our London based people okay???

    No devastation so far in Sunbury.

    Glad to hear it :-)

  16. "Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    wafflycat said:

    Are our London based people okay???

    Present and correct. I was just busy winding up an Australian
    e-quaintance.

    Excellent.

  17. Dave Larrington said:
    wafflycat said:

    Are our London based people okay???

    Present and correct. I was just busy winding up an Australian
    e-quaintance.

    Strange. I thought they ran on batteries nowadays.

    --
    Dave...

  18. "dkahn400" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    Dave Larrington said:
    wafflycat said:

    Are our London based people okay???

    Present and correct. I was just busy winding up an Australian
    e-quaintance.

    Strange. I thought they ran on batteries nowadays.

    --
    Dave...

    Nah, being from the southern hemisphere, polarity is reversed so batteries
    are rendered useless ;-)

    Cheers, helen s

  19. wafflycat said:

    "Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Present and correct. I was just busy winding up an Australian
    e-quaintance.

    Excellent.

    Him on news.com.au this morning:

    "My English friends and acquaintances both here and over there live for the
    day when I won't add, "Oh, and did I mention the cricket?" to conversations
    or emails during an ashes series. No other words have been necessary to make
    them cringe on many occasions. That day won't arrive for them this year
    either. "

    My response has been along the lines of his having gone very quiet all of a
    sudden, in much the same way as he does when we BRITONS mention Jonny
    Wilkinson. My feeling is that they won't publish it :-)

    --
    Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
    A complimentary biro(tm) is /not/ to be sniffed at.

  20. And here I am in St Mary Axe. Luckily armed with a Brompton (did I
    mention I now have a Brompton?) so tube status not an issue, and the
    lines out of Paddingtown all reported OK thus far.

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