Summer madness - London 2005

July 2005 was a humdinger of a month in London. The city played host to Live8 and won the bid for the 2012 Olympics; meanwhile the Make Poverty History campaign made its way into the G8 summit in Scotland. Then the stories changed on 7/7. I was blogging the news as it was reported (or mis-reported) - the extracts are in sequence.

• Live8, discovery and adventure
  A ramble through Slough, Drimoleague and Live8
  Published 05 July, 2005
• The road to 2012
  London wins the Olympics and Hackney will be transformed but there's something happening on the tubes
  Published 07 July, 2005
• 7/7 and then there were seven
  After confusing news reports, carnage in London and Blair leaves G8 to visit the scene
  Published o7 July, 2005
• Plea - release the bodies please
  48 hours later and anxious relatives keep vigil at King's Cross
  Published 09 July, 2005
• More trouble in London
  More bombs and man shot dead on the tube
  Published 23 July, 2005
• Pin the tail on the donkey
  Why did the police get it so wrong that they pumped 5 bullets into the wrong guy?
  Published 23 July, 2005
• And the victim was
  A 29-year-old Brazilian in the wrong place wearing the wrong clothes
  Published 24 July, 2005