What the papers said

Papers across the world expressed their revulsion at the London bombings. Niamh Hennessy reports.

THE DAILY MIRROR carried a series of pictures of survivors in a wraparound front and back page and, like many papers, featured Tony Blair’s resolute words: “We will not be terrorised”. Inside were 33 pages of coverage on the disaster. The paper ran many images of inside the Tube stations and asked the question: “Were the bombers British?”

THE SUN led with the headline: “Our spirit will never be broken”, over one of the day’s most shocking images, the double-decker bus in Tavistock Square which was ripped open by the blast. Inside, it ran two pages, side-by-side of David Beckham celebrating London’s successful bid for the Olympic Games under the headline ‘From Joy’ to the headline on the opposite page ‘To Terror’, supported by images of the explosions. It also described the “56 minutes of hell”, which descended on the capital starting at 8:51am with the Aldgate bomb and ending with the deadly bus attack at 9:47am. Its leader column read: “In the name of New York, Washington, Bali, Nairobi, Madrid and now London, we shall have vengeance and justice.”