Scary

It goes without saying that I am incredibly, deeply relieved that this story didn't make worse headlines. When I woke, it sounded like a smallish story (well, relatively speaking) but the details of what was in that car make terrifying reading (nails, gas cylinders and 60 litres of petrol). Explosives officers manually defused the bomb. Imagine doing that as a job. Heavens.

They've just identified another suspect car in an underground car park in central London, near Hyde Park, which has now been evacuated...

Apparently, according to the BBC just now London is on "heightened terrorist alert" as 07/07/07 approaches. It was an ambulance crew that noticed smoke coming from the car; intelligence didn't crack this one, which is a bit scary. Someone I've just spoken to for work has said he reckons it's all a bit coincidental what with Brown newly in power. He works in IT but was more cynical than an old hack!

I'm watching News 24 on my computer. They keep stressing how the public "must be vigilant". It's horrible.

Update: so, we're under 'severe threat' – the second highest level, which means an attack "is likely". Bloody hell.