7/7 Attacks: Eyewitness Stories
Read the stories of those who experienced the terrorist attacks on London on 7th July 2005.
Ken Livingstone
"I was in Singapore for the Olympic bid announcement when it happened. I'd always feared that when I was outside London, then that was when the attack would come. I was desperately trying to get back to the hotel, but there was a queue for cabs like you wouldn't believe. Luckily, a journalist was getting into the first one and said that he'd give me a lift.
"My phone had a special chip to make sure it can work even in an emergency when the mobile network is down, so even though I was in a hotel room in Singapore, I was in constant contact with people in London and it felt like I was in London.
"The big decision I had to make was: Should the Tube run tomorrow, or should we hold it until Monday? That was the only thing that wasn't already decided. Everything else worked exactly as we had planned."
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