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Can't quite beleive it's 3 years today since the July 7th 2005 bombings, and I've noticed a programme on channel 4 tonight which looks interesting:

http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/0-9/7-7/

The London Underground is renowned for its reserved commuters who travel anonymously everyday, detached from those around them. However, on 7 July 2005, for just a few hours, compassion and courage prevailed as ordinary men and women, caught up in the single worst terrorist attack ever inflicted on the network, came to one another's aid.

These two Channel 4 films commemorate the third anniversary of the London bombings by telling the extraordinary stories of survival and rescues which emerged from the wreckage of the disaster. The films include moving accounts and interviews with survivors, rescuers and witnesses, many of whom have not spoken publicly since the aftermath of that fateful day.
 
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Have been watching this. So far, it's been very lucky of the three people giving their stories about Carriage 346
 

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I was walking back from Euston(was based at KX then and was on a spare turn so went to get some timetables for a friend from Euston station) when the bus bomb blew up close by...never will forget that ever..loud bang then screams...horrible
 

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Was doing my rules at Cambridge that day. It was all very strange. The reception roads and P5/6 started filling up with GN and 'one' units as services were curtailed and the messroom with drivers. Very sombre mood, but an immense feeling of pride that ordinary transport workers like ourselves were down there doing a sterling job under exceptionally trying circumstances.

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ironic that for the guy who actually survived and was only 3ft away from the bomb was protected because of the unusually large number of people and how the corpses protected him from serious injury
 
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