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Saturday, July 9 Well, I've had a busy day. Work and all sorts has kept me away from the news, but I understand that the current death toll stands at 52 in total. Personally, I believe it'll rise a few more (sadly), as sometimes critically ill people can take a while to succumb to their injuries. I feel immensely sad for the people whose lives were so callously taken, but at the same time I'm immensely proud of both the reaction by the people both in London and around the country, and of our awesome emergency services, who swung almost effortlessly into action and executed their disaster control plans to the letter so efficiently and calmly. We really do have a strange kind of aplomb sometimes when it comes to tragedies or major disasters, we just shoulder it and carry on, and I find that both comforting and remarkable in a way. Only in Britain I suppose. (I don't think I'll ever hear the last of this when I'm in the US come August)... Another video for you now (as promised): it's that ABC World News Tonight: Special Report I was on about yesterday (first aired 07/07/2005 in the US and then repeated on BBC News 24 on the 08/07/2005 - and yes it's the day THEN the month for our pals on the left-hand-side of the Pond). (21mins (exactly!), 47.8Mb) Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted into his blog at 7/09/2005 02:12:00 AM. Roughly. Blog ID: 112087154669028113· | Permalink |
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