What a day: the more you think about it, and the implications of it, the more terrifying it becomes:
At 11.16 am, this appeared on the computer screens in the news-room:
"Omar Khyam found guilty at the Old Bailey".
And then, 30 minutes later, this:
" It can now be revealed that Mohammed Sidique Khan, the ringleader of 7/7 was a close associate of Omar Khyam when he was one of Britain's top terror targets and in the final stages of his plotting. Khyam also met another of the July 7 bombers, Shehzad Tanweer".
Tonight we will be asking, if the Security Services knew that, why did they not do more to stop 7/7 happening.
We'll talk to the friends and families of those who suffered and died on 7/7 to find out what they think.
We will also reflect the fact that the Police have had a really great result today, too. Had Omar Khyam and his gang not be stopped, the Ministry of Sound and Bluewater shopping centre might have been levelled, with countless deaths and injuries across the south east.
We also have the story of the little boy, desperate for a transplant, whose ethnic background makes that a lot more difficult.
We'll also have an old friend back with us who is living proof of why bone-marrow donations are literally a matter of life and death.
And we'll be reporting on why Kate Moss is causing queues in Oxford Street.
So I think it's all there but the top bit will knock your socks off.
Hope you can be there at 6.
Alastair and Tamzin.
