‘Terrorists could not have done a better job destroying London’

STUNNED Londoners counted the cost of the pillaging and tried to clear up the mess yesterday as fears grew of what lay ahead for them last night.

In the poor eastern district of Woolwich, broken glass littered streets that were strewn with stolen goods, tailors’ dummies and other debris.

Simon Mills, manager of Birts & Son, jewellers and pawnbrokers, said he had lost goods worth £50,000-60,000.