Ceremony remembers bombing victims

Hundreds of people crowded into King's Cross station to remember the 52 innocent people who were killed when four blasts ripped through London's public transport network.

London mayor Boris Johnson joined Tessa Jowell, the Government minister for the capital, and transport chiefs at the ceremony.

They laid flowers outside the station at 8.50am, the time when the first three bombs went off.

Mr Johnson laid a memorial card which said: "We honour the memory of those who died on 7/7 2005, we salute the courage of those who were injured and our thoughts and prayers are with all victims and their families."

The pavements around King's Cross, from where the four suicide bombers set off on their terror campaign, were crammed with commuters as passers-by stopped to pay their respects.

After the ceremony ended, three women arrived at the scene to stand in silent vigil for several minutes. One of the women, who did not want to be named, said: "Do you think anything has improved? I don't.

"My son died on this day three years ago and I do not feel any safer today than when I found out about what had happened. We all still feel under threat - perhaps even more so."

Relatives of victims and survivors also made personal pilgrimages to the sites of the four blasts - Russell Square, Aldgate and Edgware Road Tube stations, and Tavistock Square.

A small group of family and friends gathered at the entrance to Russell Square station. In a private ceremony, around 20 people observed a minute's silence at 8.50am. Some of them embraced and others held bunches of flowers.