Plan B Forum

Services have been held to remember the "ocean of pain" caused by the London bombings, in which 52 people died and more than 700 were hurt a decade ago.



A minute's silence was observed as survivors and relatives of the victims gathered at St Paul's Cathedral.

Petals fell from the dome as the Bishop of London said the Tube and bus attacks had united a city in "agonised outcry".

In Hyde Park, one survivor, Emma Craig, told crowds: "It may not have broken London, but it did break some of us."

The bombing of three Tube trains and a bus - carried out by four bombers linked to al-Qaeda carrying rucksacks of explosives - was the worst single terrorist atrocity on British soil.

At just after 08:50 on 7 July 2005, three explosions took place on the Underground - 26 people died at Russell Square, six at Edgware Road and seven at Aldgate.

Almost an hour later, a fourth device was set off on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square, killing 13 people.

Emma Craig, 7/7 survivor: "It didn't break London, but it broke some of us"

Ms Craig, who was 14 when she survived the blast at Aldgate, said: "All of us lost our innocence on that day, our naivety, the thought that 'something like that could never happen to me' or even to London.

"It was and still is very much a part of my growing up, my childhood, my adolescence."

But Paul Dadge, who was photographed helping a survivor in the aftermath of the attack at Edgware Road station, said the terrorists would never win.

"They won't beat us because there is no point at which we will simply surrender to terrorism," said Mr Dadge, who was also speaking beside the 7 July memorial, which consists of 52 stainless steel pillars designed to symbolise the random nature of the loss of life.

"That's not the spirit we saw on 7 July. That's not the spirit we've ever seen. That's not the spirit we will ever see."