Flawed emergency planning and communications breakdowns marred the response to last July’s London transit bombings, says an official report published on Monday. The London Assembly’s report highlights both the heroism and the confusion of emergency crews responding to the bombs, which killed 52 commuters and four bombers.
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/ 2 February 2006
Moira Shearer, a British ballerina who rose to worldwide prominence with the lead role in the 1948 film The Red Shoes, has died, her husband said on Wednesday. She was 80. Shearer died on Tuesday at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, southern England, said her husband.
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/ 22 January 2006
It captivated onlookers with an unprecedented appearance in the shallow waters of London’s River Thames, but the whale spotted swimming past the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben died while rescue crews tried to ferry it to sea.