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Dear All
Hello
Five years ago, there was a series of events that affected people in many different ways.
On Saturday 2 July 2005, the Live 8 Make Poverty History campaign culminated in concerts around the world.
Bob Geldof and many others wanted political leaders to tackle poverty in Africa.
Concerts were held in 10 cities, including London, Philadelphia, Paris, Berlin, Johannesburg, Rome and Moscow. The Live8 concerts were intended to draw attention to the summit of G8 leaders meeting to discuss global poverty at Gleneagles in Scotland, the following week.
Bob Geldof said the day had been "full of hope and possibility and life". The G8 nations agreed to cancel the debts of 18 poorest countries - while Africa continued to press for all African debts to be cancelled.
On 6 July, at 12-50, IOC president Jacques Rogge made the announcement that London would be the host for the
2012 Olympic Games will be held in London. The news was relayed on a large TV screen in Trafalgar Square.
Many people were reading about this happy news on 7 July in London when there were bomb attacks on London's transport network has killed more than 30 people and injured about 700 others.
The first three bombs on underground trains just outside Liverpool Street and Edgware Road stations, and on another travelling between King's Cross and Russell Square.
The final explosion was around an hour later on a number 30 double-decker bus in Tavistock Square, not far from King's Cross.
In total 52 people lost their lives in the London bombings, 700 people were injured.
In the aftermath, on Sunday 10 July 2005, Throughout the world in 2005, people were commemorating 60 years since the end of World War Two.
Did you go to one of the concerts or be involved in the Make Poverty History campaign?
What are your memories of this time?
Take gentle care
Very best wishes
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On the Saturday, I was at work stacking shelves. I remember every time I had chance to go into the warehouse we had the radio on playing the Live 8 concert, and when I got home that evening I finally got chance to watch the rest of it.
The Thursday was awful, though. My dad had gone to a butchers' dinner in London but because he'd caught the train so early in the morning I couldn't remember if he was in London or if he was in the Isle of Man working. I was doing work experience one day a week that summer and it was that day I was in Preston, and we were hearing about it more or less as it happened - checking the internet on and off all day. Getting to 5pm that day felt like forever. Fortunately, my dad was just getting to the outskirts of London as the transport system was being halted so he just had to make his way back with somebody else.
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Elizabeth,
I did watch the concert material on tv as and when I could.
It was awful to see the news of the London bombings especially as we had people off the boards who were out and about and we were fearful for them, luckily I don't think anyone was injured or worse but I seem to recall there were some who had family members helping to rescue or treat injured people.
A lad I knew whose family ran the newsagents near to my house, lost his Italian fiancee in that bus bombing, he was talking with her on the phone and then the bomb went off. They were living in Norwich while she commuted to London for her job and were supposed to be getting married in the September. He was heartbroken as were all his family and that of Bernadette.
July 10th was my son's 23rd Birthday.
Lizx
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we were on holiday in Switzerland, not paying any attention to the concerts, no real availability of tv or radio
Nor to the announcement of the London Games
I was sick on July 7 ...... someone came into my room and said I had to go watch the tv because bombs had gone off in London
BBC world was available in English ........ but it was a useless station 'cos all it was was talking heads with a continuous replaying of a few events, and loadsof speculation with no real news.
I was most disappointed in the BBC coverage ... it was as if thy had a 10 minute loop of tape that they replayed constantly.
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