20 years since the Real IRA bombing of BBC TV Centre

This is probably the last new thread I am going to start here, and I have no idea if someone else made a thread already, but today it's been exactly 20 years since the 2001 Real IRA bombing of BBC Television Centre. Broadcasting continued throughout the incident, albeit live news broadcasts were disrupted for a short time.
Here is Susan Osman broadcasting from the BBC's Westminster studios

Here is further coverage from later on in the night with Adrian Finighan back at TV Centre

Bloody hell I remember that.

20 years?

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I was in New Zealand at the time.
We had just arrived at a hotel, and turned on the telly to see how the F1 was getting on.
There was a teaser for the news later on.
"Explosion at BBC HQ in London - more details at 6" and that was it....... together with a quick shot of the footage.
Then straight back to the racing.

It left us slightly gobsmacked - but we did work out it was TVC and not LBH (the HQ).
I might have sent a text to someone back in London to find out what had happened.
And that's my alibi.

How long was it till it got fixed? And what did N24 look like at that time?

I remember this very well. I saw the damage caused to part of Stage 6. This was the reason why the BBC One news bulletins had a different backdrop for a while, with no shot of the BBC News Centre.

Below is a clip of the BBC News on March 4th 2001, with the backdrop changed to a part view used by BBC News 24 studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAeh_tY1uC0

By April 2001 it was fixed, and the regular view into the BBC News Centre was reinstated.

That was actually from Moira's Breakfast news desk in TC7. Once the bomb exploded, both N6 (National) and N8 (News 24) were off limits. BBC1 bulletins were presented from TC7 until they could return to N6 and News 24 joined BBC World and broadcast a joint service from N9:

That isn’t just a change of background, it’s a change of studio. That is the news desk from Breakfast in TC7, which was much further away from the bomb site than N6 as I understand it.

I'm really not going to miss you.

Didn't want to cause offense, I have deleted the post

Ironic that even the IRA couldn't destroy television centre, Thompson & Patel managed that. According to the Guardian 'Thompson has no immediate plans for a new job and said he would probably remain in the US rather than return to the UK. ' though I now understand he's MD of Ancestry - the genealogy company.