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Olyinpic celebrations saved Louise’s life


CELEBRATING London’s successful Olympic bid saved the life of a former


Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil now living in the city.


Radio producer and presenter Louise Hul-


land (25), whose parents live in Read, should have been a passenger on the lube, then the No. 30 bus last Thursday morning. Fortunately, she overslept.


With 52 people confirmed dead and 700


injured in Thursday’s attacks, Louise, pic­ tured, has written her personal account of events.


By Louise Hulland


EVERY day I make my way from my home in Islington, North Lon­


don to work in Edgware Road. Every day I take the Number 30 bus,


or I get the tube to Edgware Road. On Thursday July 7th I was due to


start work at 10 a.m. - leaving the house at 8-30 to fight my way through rush


hoar. But I overslept. Ironically, it was because I had spent


the previous night celebrating London winning the 2012 Olympics. I ’d been m Trafalgar Square when the announce­ ment was made, and it was one of the few times in my three years in the city 1


felt like a real Londoner.


So, I didn’t wake up until 9-20 a.m. - ivith my mobile incessantly bleeping at


me, telling me I had messages. That was when I first realised that


something was wrong. My boyfriend, Kai, had got into work


unusually early that day and when his colleagues started calling in reporting “power surges” on the tube - and auer growing up in London during the IRA attacks of the 80s - he taiew something more serious was occurring. He’d left messages for me telling me


not to get on the tube and as news start­ ed to drip through th a t one of tk® “surges” was at Edgware Road he d started to panic, knowing I should be on the underground. I turned on the TV and his worst fears


were confirmed - countless explosions were happening simultaneously all over


the city. I couldn’t leave my house and stayed , , ,


on my landline, trying desperately to contact family to let them know I w ^ okay before they heard anything on the


news. It was whon I was on tho phono to my


mum that yet another news flash came


^^^^tting hold of friends at work was an awful task - phone networks had gone down - partly due to the mass number of calls and partly because the police


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on - saying the bus I travel on had Then I started sobbing, in shock and


CRGS teacher is suspended in


indecency probe A TEACHER at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School has been arrested on suspicion of making indecent images of children. The male member of staff, who


lives in Clitheroe, has subsequently been suspended by the school. Officers from the police public


protection unit at Accrington seized two computers during inves­ tigations into the allegations - one from the school itself and another from the man’s home. However, the images are not believed to relate to


pupils at the school. After being arrested from his


home, the teacher was questioned by officers at Blackburn Police Sta­ tion on Friday. He was later released on police bail until November pending the results of the investigations. Det. Insp. Ian Critchley, of


Accrington CID, said: ‘ We have arrested a male in relation to inde­ cent images found on a computer. “Following a referral to us, an


investigation was started and we have seized computers from the school and from his home address. “He was interviewed on Friday


and released pending further exam­ ination of the computers. “I understand he was suspended by the school when the allegations


were made.” Headteacher Judith Evans said:


“A member of staff has been sus­ pended and a police investigation is currently ongoing, therefore we can not comment further at this stage.


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