The Guardian offices sit in the elongated triangle between three of yesterday's bomb blasts in London, so as an organisation and individuals we felt literally closer to the news than would ordinarily be the case.
Our proximity created logistical issues for the paper and website, from anxiety over the whereabouts of our colleagues to the issue of how best to print and distribute a paper from a city at a standstill.
Our reader's editor Ian Mayes has given us an early version of his column for tomorrow's paper which gives an account of how the day unfolded. It includes some web traffic statistics for Guardian Unlimited which I would highlight for the poignant fact that our top three referring cities yesterday were London, New York and Madrid.
Here's Ian's column:
There could hardly be a greater contrast between consecutive front pages than those of Thursday and Friday this week. Thursday’s Guardian showed, in a picture across the width of the page, the jubilant crowd in Trafalgar Square celebrating the city’s Olympic victory. Under it, the headline read, One sweet word: London.
This was the paper readers had before them on the day the terrorists struck, a day that was summed up by the front page today — a whole-page picture of the mangled remains of an emblematic red bus beneath the headline: London’s day of terror.
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