Many happy returns

The web is already full of comments of lucky escapes from those caught up in this morning's bomb attacks.

A friend of mine 'reported in' an hour or so ago. She'd been stuck on the tube behind the one that was attacked at King's Cross and had to evacuate the station along with injured and be-sooted fellow passengers. She then walked down to Holborn to catch a bus to her eventual Liverpool Street destination. Of course she didn't realise that only minutes earlier a device had been detonated on a bus just up the road near Russell Square.

She's now literally stuck in the office with no way to get home yet. Happy Birthday.