Tributes paid to bombing victims
TRIBUTES have been paid to the dozens of people who died in the July 7 bombings, on the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks.
Among those killed was Marie Hartley, from Oswaldtwistle, as a series of explosions ripped through London in co-ordinated terrorist strikes in 2005.
The attacks on three London Underground trains and a doubledecker bus killed 52 people as well as the bombers, and more than 700 people were injured.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick laid wreaths at the 7/7 memorial in Hyde Park at 8.50am on Tuesday - the time of the first bomb.
Mum-of-two Marie was one of 13 people killed when a bomb tore through it in Tavistock Square.
The 34-year-old, who worked for a greetings card firm, was in London to attend an exhibition with a friend and colleague – who was blown out of the bus and spent three weeks in St Thomas’s Hospital, London, recovering from horrific facial injuries.
Marie left a husband David and two sons.