Pride Bomb?

We're just hearing the news this morning that a suspected car bomb has been found in The Haymarket, near Picadilly. Experts have dismantled it. Details seem a little sketchy at the moment but it's being described as a "big device" and a "real and substantial threat".

The Haymarket is on tomorrows London Pride parade route. I hope I'm jumping to conclusions but all the signs are pointing to a terrorist attack on our Pride. At the very least the area is now cordoned off, so the parade may have to take a different route.

Whatever happens we'll be there of course. The weather might dampen our spirits but a bomb plot won't.

UPDATE: I've just had this conversation with The Boyf...

OMO: Have you heard about the bomb?

The Boyf: Yeah, and the weather's awful.

OMO: I know. It's totally going to muck up my "do".

The Boyf: So a bomb then. We'll have to make sure we wear our best underwear, just in case.

OMO: Yeah, we want to look nice for the emergency services.


UPDATE 2: As further details emerge it looks unlikely that it was aimed at Pride. It seems that it was a Mercedes packed with gas canisters and nails and was due to go off in the early hours of this morning. For what ever reason it didn't ignite, and it was ever-vigilant ambulancemen who spotted the smoking car and alerted the authorities. I think London's very lucky not to have awoken to a tragedy this morning.