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Voices of 7/7: The survivors' testimonies form a searing but inspiring memorial to the 52 victims
Friday 04 March 2011
Rookie policewoman ran to help, 7/7 inquest told
Friday 17 December 2010
A new policewoman with just five weeks' service today told the 7/7 inquest how she "didn't give any thought to turning around" as she ran into a pitch black Tube tunnel where 26 people were killed.
Pc sacked after non-consensual sex allegation
Thursday 18 November 2010
A police constable has been sacked after having non-consensual sex with a drunken woman in a railway station police locker room.
Melanie McDonagh: The shadows cast by unresolved traumas
Saturday 23 October 2010
Survivor of 7/7 tells of anger at rescue delayed by 'protocols'
Tuesday 19 October 2010
The full horror of the London 7/7 terrorist attacks was brought back into focus yesterday, as survivors recalled watching people die in agony before the emergency services could reach them.
Bloodstains and belongings visible amid the wreckage
Wednesday 13 October 2010
As the police camera panned across the mangled and blood-spattered Tube carriages, the inquest saw in graphic detail the carnage caused by the four bombers on 7 July, 2005.
Passengers showed 'remarkable heroism' after bombings
Tuesday 12 October 2010
Tube travellers displayed "remarkable heroism" in risking their lives to help injured and dying victims of the 7/7 attacks, an inquest heard today.
Tapes reveal the confusion that followed blasts
Tuesday 12 October 2010
"I think this is a possible power surge problem, not terrorist related. But we don't know." The chaos and confusion that followed the three explosions on Tube trains on 7 July 2005 was revealed yesterday as a series of telephone calls between London Underground staff and the emergency services were played on the first day of the inquest.
London bombs were meant for a different day – and different locations
Tuesday 12 October 2010
Christina Patterson: The limits of multi-culturalism
Wednesday 28 July 2010
Weathering the storm: How Paul Webley has pushed pushing Soas up the league tables and into the black
Thursday 25 March 2010
Nine months ago the director of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Paul Webley, was at the centre of a storm when 50 students occupied his office for 48 hours and harangued him, refusing to budge until he met their demands.
Poetry in motion: Carol Ann Duffy is going the distance
Monday 08 March 2010
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- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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