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kid · 21/07/2005 13:12

Totenham Court Road has just been evacuated. I know there are going to be lots of scares following the London bombings but DH has asked me to check if anything has happened. He seems to think something has.

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CountessDracula · 21/07/2005 13:15

nothing on Sky or BBC online

This is happening all the time, what makes him think something has happened? Lots of evacuations and security alerts all over the place.

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hercules · 21/07/2005 13:16

sky news. Warren st, oval and shepherds bush are evacuated. Says a series of incidents.

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CountessDracula · 21/07/2005 13:16

Does he mean the road or the station?

Also, mobiles are working fine, if something had happened they would have shut the networks

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CountessDracula · 21/07/2005 13:16

incidents meaning security alerts presumably?

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hercules · 21/07/2005 13:18

DOnt know. police say incidents ongoing.

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nutcracker · 21/07/2005 13:19

It says on Sky 'smoke seen coming from train'.

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bluebear · 21/07/2005 13:19

Sheperds Bush was shut at about 10am-ish - but reopened (well tube was running again) about half hour later. - Think it's just an outbreak of suspect packages (crossing fingers anyway)
There's a sign at local tube station saying that there were over 100 suspect packages in the last 6 days and reminding everyone to take care of their bags.

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CountessDracula · 21/07/2005 13:19

where on sky news

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Carla · 21/07/2005 13:21

Sorry, kid, started a thread. Didn't see your one.

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woollybaalamp · 21/07/2005 13:21

sky.com

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nutcracker · 21/07/2005 13:21

here

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woollybaalamp · 21/07/2005 13:22

hi, nutty

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bluebear · 21/07/2005 13:23

Oh just found the sky news story....

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nutcracker · 21/07/2005 13:23

Who are you usually woollybaalamp ??

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NomDePlume · 21/07/2005 13:24

BBC news have just said that University College Hospital are on Major Incident Alert. Unconfirmed reason for 'alert' as of yet (according to BBC lunchtime tv news)

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woollybaalamp · 21/07/2005 13:24

Janh (hunker and miaou made me change on one of the astrology threads)

(I'm Aries)

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nutcracker · 21/07/2005 13:25

Ah ha it all becomes clear now Jan, er i mean woollybaalamp

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CountessDracula · 21/07/2005 13:26

bugger

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Easy · 21/07/2005 13:26

The whole of nottingham was jammed at home-time one day last week, just cos someone had left a bag behind in a jobcentre near the city centre.

Police closed all the roads, but then couldn't get disposal people thru the grid-lock.

I didn't get out of the city until 7:30. Then they didn't even report it on the regional evening news!

Might just be a malfunctioning train, or a discarded fag end.

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oliveoil · 21/07/2005 13:27

Hopefully nothing (fingers crossed) .

There are closures all the time here (M/cr), think everyone is jumpy, understandably.

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woollybaalamp · 21/07/2005 13:27

Smoke coming from a train sounds alarming but it's more likely to be a malfunction thatn a bomb, isn't it? (Unless we are getting misinformation again, like the power surges last time.)

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Easy · 21/07/2005 13:27

I'm intruiged by "a minor explosion, enough to blow open a rucksack".

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woollybaalamp · 21/07/2005 13:28

Sky again:

A series of incidents have been reported near Warren Street, Oval and Shepherd's Bush stations on the London Underground.

The station have been evacuated. Smoke was seen coming from a train.


A man on the train told Sky News he spoke to an Italian man who witnessed an explosion.

"He told me he had seen a man carrying a rucksack which suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open his rucksack. Everyone rushed from the carriage. People evacuated very quickly. There was no panic.

"I didn't see anyone injured but there was shock and fright.

"There was a smell of smoke."

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MrsDoolittle · 21/07/2005 13:30

Hopefully it's an over-reaction

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ScummyMummy · 21/07/2005 13:30

Oh no- Sky news says another bloody rucksack isinvolved! I get the heebie jeebies every time I'm near a rucksack on the tube already... All the backpackers must be getting sick of my paranoid looks at their luggage.

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