As they rushed to help the injured, they discovered that many of the boxes carrying first aid equipment on Tube carriages were empty and others could not be unlocked. It has now emerged that some senior managers did not have these. The networks also failed because of traffic overload, adding to the widespread confusion. Ambulance crews’ radios also failed and radios did not work underground. On 7/7, the mobile phone networks were deliberately shut down to enable officials carrying phones with special SIM cards to reach staff.

Individuals acted with heroism even if the technology did not always back them up.”The areas of concern that will be highlighted in the 7/7 report include:CommunicationsOfficials relied too heavily on communicating by mobile phone, the review committee is expected to say It will call for an alternative to mobiles in a crisis. Those involved in the attempt to save badly injured passengers displayed heroism “beyond the call of duty” but were let down by inadequate equipment, a lack of medical supplies and insufficient training for a terror attack, the 7/7 inquiry will conclude.One Whitehall source, who has seen a draft of the report, said: “If people had not gone far beyond what they were expected to do then it [the number of casualties] would have been an awful lot worse. The official inquiry into the response to the disaster has found that the recommendations made nearly two decades ago, after the King’s Cross fire, have not been acted on.
The three-volume report, which includes the harrowing testimonies of survivors, will make more than 50 proposals for improving the handling of major emergencies.The members of the 7 July review committee, who will present their findings to ministers on 5 June, are expected to warn that lives could be lost in future unless action is taken immediately.Fifty-two people died and many more were injured when Islamist extremists launched a series of suicide bomb attacks at Edgware Road, King’s Cross and Aldgate Tube stations and on a double-decker bus. A catalogue of communication failures undermined the “heroic” efforts of emergency crews, doctors and commuters to rescue victims injured in the London bombings. It also caused severe delays on the West Coast main line as police scoured the train for clues.A spokeswoman for British Transport Police said a suspect from Skelmersdale in west Lancashire was later arrested in the Kendal area.The attack follows a series of incidents that have raised concerns about the level of knife crime, and comes three days after the launch of a national knife amnesty and a month after British Transport Police announced they would use scanners to detect knives at stations.Officers are being given hand-held scanners as well as portable scanning arches as part of the national roll-out.. The man died after being stabbed in the chest following an argument with a fellow passenger on the 10.10 Virgin train from Glasgow to Paignton in Devon.
Although staff managed to lock the knifeman in a carriage after evacuating passengers, he kicked out a window when the train stopped at Oxenholme station in Cumbria and fled.The attack caused panic and confusion among the train’s 200 passengers, some of whom were treated for shock. Despite what Mr Cameron thinks, the choice of song was nothing to do with him, Yorke said..

Police last night arrested a 21-year-old man after a passenger was stabbed to death in front of horrified travellers on a train yesterday. But the left-leaning singer has responded by saying it did not happen. Listeners to this morning’s edition of Desert Island Discs will hear Mr Cameron talk of how Yorke played a song specially for him at a recent show after requesting the track beforehand. But the Tory leader David Cameron’s efforts to trumpet his chumminess with the star have backfired. The women, most of whom have not previously been involved in politics, are to be mentored by senior figures in the Conservative Party. They will reinforce Mr Cameron’s existing “A-list” of female candidates drawn up to fight target seats..