London bombings - TV news coverage

Will things die down when Bush and Blair give up their jobs

Funnily enough, the answer may well be Yes....

I very much doubt it. I do not believe that the terrorists are really bothered with who is leader of the UK or the USA. They are effectively mounting a campaign against the western world irrespective of Bush and Blair. If the current leaders of the two countries were Kerry and Howard, I really do not believe that this would change the mentality of Al-Qaeda. They are fighting for an Islamic state throughout the western world, and their extremist views would not be diluted by new leaders. I do not think that in reality, any other US president or UK prime minister would have behaved any differently after 9/11, and I think that it is wrong to claim that Blair and Bush have made the world a more dangerous place.

worrys for Birmingham public tonight aswell .... are the News channels reporting on this news? :

BBC 1 covered the alert a few minutes ago in their scheduled bulletin.

Sky's had a breaking news strap up for about an hour and Sky's Hazel Westwood is making her way to the scene.

Following the disaster in London . . .

East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of Emergency ( ICE ) " campaign with the support of Falklands war hero
Simon Weston.

The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone
address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency".

In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able
to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them.
It's so simple that everyone can do it. Please do.

Please will you also email this to everybody in your address book, it
won't take too many 'forwards' before everybody will know about this. It
really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest.

For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc

BBC Radio 5live been moved out of BBC Mailbox, by police... must be serious..... handed back to London about 10.17 ish

BBC WM has gone onto the emergency tape too.

Ah. Wondered what had happened.

BBC WM have just gone to emergency tape, which begins with "There must be an angel", Ed Doolan saying "we have a bit of a problem", and is followed by - of all things - Dad's Army....

Don't know whether it's relevant or not, but the BBC Radio Player has a message at the top saying:

"Some programmes not available due to emergency schedule changes."

That'll be leftover from Thursday I'm pretty sure - they've used it before.