Life In London - A Bomb Scare

[-SharonA-]

My son had trouble getting to work this morning due to a bomb scare.

One of many and a regular occurrence in London.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-bus-bomb-scare-sparks-7943326

[agchristie]

....and the question is Sharon?

[-Talbot-]

I don't think you have to necessarily ask a question, AG.
But it would be good if we were to be told the point you are making, Sharon.

[viv41]

I'm glad I don't live in a major city.

[agchristie]

Despite the many inconveniences, etc there cannot be any complacency. Disruption is a small price to pay if preventing an atrocity.

[-SharonA-]

Sorry I did not realise there had to be a question.

Just an insight as to how London is on edge.

[agchristie]

I'm sure London has always been on edge since 7/7...

[Baldric]

Nothing on News Topic Header Page says there needs to be a question Sharon.

[Cloverjo]

Thankfully, nothing terrible happened. My son lives in London and I worry about bombs on tubes all the time. However, what can you do? Anything could happen anywhere at any time.

[jno]

London was targeted by terrorists a very long time before 7/7. Locals take it in their stride, though you can't blame them for being annoyed that buses are cancelled and streets closed.

[agchristie]

Jno > London was targeted by terrorists a very long time before 7/7.

Of course, but heightened by 7/7 after a lengthy period of calm following the GFA.

[-SharonA-]

true jno! We just take it in our stride. When I was working, I lost count of the number of times the tube was closed, unable to get a bus and arriving home hours later.
Even where I live, it is nothing to see police cars screeching to a halt in front of a house where they have suspicions of terrorism being plotted.

[New Judge]

“I'm sure London has always been on edge since 7/7...”

London has been “on edge” for far longer than that. I worked in central London for 35 years, commuting into the capital most days all through the late 1970s and 80s (IRA days). Closure of main stations was a regular occurrence, tube services were suspended regularly, large areas cordoned off. On one occasion I was late getting up (too much electric soup the previous evening) and missed my usual train. I worked at that time near to Selfridges store and walked past it on my way to work. That very morning at about the time I usually passed a bomb exploded outside the store injuring a number of people. I may have been among them had I not had too many the night before. Life goes on. The maniacs did not prevail then (apart from a few of them being admitted to government) and they won’t do so now. Londoners are too resilient. And excessive alcohol can be very beneficial to one’s health and wellbeing!

[Baldric]

Mrs B. lived and worked in Central London during some of The Troubles years.
Her attitude and that of most Londoners was that it was pointless to worry about it as you didn't know if you were walking away from or towards the next big bang.

[Ellipsis]

Is it a coincidence that the Northern Ireland terror threat level was raised in Great Britain today?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36267052