Off topic: Disruption in London this morning Thread poster: Deborah Shannon
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/default.stm
The news has been getting worse all morning, and police are now aware of 6 bomb explosions on public transport during the morning rush hour.
Hundreds of people have been caught up in this. Mobile phone services are giving priority to emergency calls, so communications are disrupted just as everyone is trying to contact relatives etc.<... See more http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/default.stm
The news has been getting worse all morning, and police are now aware of 6 bomb explosions on public transport during the morning rush hour.
Hundreds of people have been caught up in this. Mobile phone services are giving priority to emergency calls, so communications are disrupted just as everyone is trying to contact relatives etc.
My husband called home a little while ago, thankfully. It's going to be a traumatic day.
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Sorry for infringing the rules - this was not an attempt to start a discussion, but a heads-up about likely communication problems today.
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Ines Burrell 
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:07
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| Very serious incident in London this morning | Jul 7, 2005 |
I live in South West of England but even so it is going to influence everybody. I suppose everebody hoped it is not going to happen here, in England but it did after all. Lets just hope there are no fatalities (or as few as possible).
Burrell
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| awful news again | Jul 7, 2005 |
I've been following all this situation the whole morning... As a citizen of Barcelona, Spain, this all sounds terribly familiar, and I can only hope the real number of victims is not as great as the chaos seems to be.
What else can I say? I can't think of anything that makes any sense of this...
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avsie (X)
Local time: 15:07
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There are no words to describe this horrible situation!
My thoughts go to the families of the innocent victims...
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| just my friendship, affection and solidarity | Jul 7, 2005 |
...to all of us who live in UK, and a particular hug to all Londoners.
Hoping none of us has been directly hit.
Words are cheap, but it's all we have - we'll make it!
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| Let's make this forum... | Jul 7, 2005 |
a place where all Londoner collegues can tell us they are all right... my thoughts immediately went to them when I heard the news! Just a quick line will do...
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Adam Bartley
Australia
Local time: 23:07
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| Concern for colleagues | Jul 7, 2005 |
Good to hear that Natalie's family are ok. Do we have a list of London-based colleagues? Might be good to see that they all 'check-in' as opportunity permits.
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Betty Revelioti
Greece
Local time: 16:07
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| Waiting for all Londoners...... | Jul 7, 2005 |
Rossana Triaca wrote:
a place where all Londoner collegues can tell us they are all right... my thoughts immediately went to them when I heard the news! Just a quick line will do...
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Just one tiny OK...
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two2tango
Argentina
Local time: 10:07
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| Temporarily locking this thread | Jul 7, 2005 |
Due to time Zones, the moderator of this forum is not yet available. I believe this topic to be outside the scope of the site but I will leave it for Claudia to decide.
Meanwhile I will temporarily block this thread until Claudia can make her own decision.
Thanks for your understanding.
Enrique Cavalitto
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| Dear colleagues | Jul 7, 2005 |
We all hope our Londoner colleagues and their families are fine.
I must remind here that this kind of discussion is out of scope for Proz.com. We have already seen this kind of situation and discussion when something similar happened in Madrid and it was decided that only discussions about natural disasters would be allowed.
Plea... See more We all hope our Londoner colleagues and their families are fine.
I must remind here that this kind of discussion is out of scope for Proz.com. We have already seen this kind of situation and discussion when something similar happened in Madrid and it was decided that only discussions about natural disasters would be allowed.
Please refer to http://www.proz.com/scope
and http://www.proz.com/faq/forums#forums_natural_disasters
Proz.com encourages to contact privately and directly those members you know.
I'm going to lock this topic.
Claudia
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