Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. ONE PERSON died and at least 40 were injured yesterday as an IRA bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London, sending a plume of black smoke high over the capital.
I knew he was dead. It's pointless trying to rebuild it,' he said.The blast, which caused an estimated pounds 1bn of damage, shook buildings throughout the City and was heard up to six miles away.Police appealed for anyone who saw the dark blue Iveco/Ford tipper truck, registration number G430 OVT or G430 DVT, in Bishopsgate to telephone 0800 789 321.Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Owen Kelly, the City of London police commissioner, said more people could be trapped in the wreckage and several are still missing. There is business interruption and losses involved in getting people back to work. I quickly learned Ed Henty was the photographer who had been sent on the assignment.Shortly after that a police officer came over and asked if anybody was missing who we would expect to see there. No answer. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more.
The risks were part of the job though Ed was never a photographer who would take unnecessary ones.See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper,order back issues and use the historic Daily Expressnewspaper archive.I followed the tape around the exclusion zone and when I saw an alleyway I ducked down it and made my way towards a good vantage point.In the 1990s I covered about 20 IRA bombs in London so my camera kit was always ready and I was halfway out of the door before the call came to an end.I had no idea my new colleague Paul was so close to death himself on that day.
Unfortunately it was now out of reach behind the police cordon. Ed always answered his phone. As a junior reporter keen to make his mark I was usually dispatched to where an IRA bomb had either gone off or was about to.One of her entourage asked why I was in such a state and I explained. The IRA did not immediately claim responsibility but senior police officers had no doubt that it was behind the explosion.Police kept workers in the NatWest Tower and other offices for several hours fearing a follow- up explosion and because of the danger of injury from glass falling from unstable buildings. "What I didn't know was that the other end of the alley was nearer to the bomb than I realised and if it had gone off then the blast would have funnelled down between the buildings and I might not be writing this today.
Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, the Natwest Bank's tower seen badly damaged Tower 42 Old Broad Street London Originally called Natwest Tower occupied by National Westminster Bank until IRA bomb in 1993 The truck was first seen in Bishopsgate at 9am and was under police surveillance when the first warning was made to Sky Television at 9.17am. The switchboard had received a coded warning of a bomb in the Bishopsgate area of the City of London and they needed a photographer there pronto.But not this day. They, like me, were trying to find a way round the police cordons to get close enough for a picture.When it went off at 10.27am on April 24, 1993, it did so with the explosive power of over a ton of TNT and gouged a 15ft crater in the street.I made my way across to the road and waited to get the picture of a bomb-disposal technician unloading it and sending it on its lonely journey toward what we would now call an IED (improvised explosive device).At 10.27am the device exploded. No answer.