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Sky News
07-07-2025
- Sky News
How I reported the 7/7 bombings
On the morning of 7 July 2005, four suicide bombers targeted London's transport network. We now know that three bombs were detonated on the underground and an hour later a fourth exploded on a bus, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds of others. But on the day itself, there was confusion for hours about the details of the scale and nature of the attacks. On today's Sky News Daily, Gareth Barlow speaks to our crime correspondent Martin Brunt, who recalls his experience of reporting for Sky News on that day and considers its lasting impact.
BBC News
06-07-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
'The 7/7 London bombings feel like yesterday' Paul Dadge says
A man pictured helping a survivor of the 7/7 bombings in a famous image of the aftermath has said he feels like it "could've been yesterday", 20 years on from the Dadge, from Cannock, helped survivors outside Edgware Road Tube Station in photo of him helping a then 25-year-old Davinia Douglass across the road to a makeshift A&E station dominated newspapers and saw him branded a hero."Sometimes I struggle with the fact that I wasn't able to help those who lost their lives," he told the BBC. On 7 July 2005, four suicide bombers with rucksacks full of explosives attacked central London, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds bomb that exploded at Edgware Road killed six the events of 20 years ago, former firefighter Mr Dadge had just started a job in Hammersmith and was on his way to work when he came across the scene. "There was just a lot of people milling around, and at that point there wasn't really anybody there to help them," he said."I just made a conscious decision to help, really, and put people into an area where they could be looked after until more emergency services arrived."He said it had "without any doubt" changed the course of his life, telling the BBC that he had since become interested in counter-terrorism and Dadge stood to be Labour MP in the former constituency of Cannock Chase in the 2017 general election, missing out to the Conservatives' Amanda Milling. "In some ways I found it to be quite natural what I did on the 7th of July," he said."But on the 8th of July, talking to hundreds of press from around the globe, I found [it] a lot more overfacing than being involved in the terrorist attack itself."He said he got back on the Tube the following Monday as a "show of defiance", to prove that the nation would carry is still in contact with Ms Douglass to this day."I'm in touch with her and others who weren't in that picture, and it's good to catch up with those people," he said."We were quite a close group of people at Edgeware Road, because we all stayed together." Follow BBC Stoke & Staffordshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
