What the press had to say

Northern line commuters read their newspapers the morning after the latest attack on the capital. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Four apparently failed bombs, three at tube stations, one on a bus, again at the cardinal compass points of London. Anxious passengers evacuated, streets cordoned off, travel disrupted across the capital. Four men possibly on the run. One man - later released - arrested at gunpoint on live television just outside Downing Street. A city shaken to be reminded of events two weeks ago, when a similar pattern of bombs killed 56 people.

How on earth do you tell that story with a picture? The Sun decides that you can't, and splashes "4 SUICIDE BOMBERS ON LOOSE" starkly across its front page. The Telegraph and the Independent opt for a jumble of photographs like a pinboard in a student kitchen, which at least adequately conveys the sense of chaos, and the magnitude of the task now facing police. The montage shows weeping children, armed police with guns raised, emergency workers in gas masks, a suspect being searched, a young woman breathing into a paper bag to try to calm down, and police officers, police vehicles, police tape everywhere.