On the News right now. Pretty scary stuff - don't know how bad it is!
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Oh crikey! *switches over*
A number of casualties 
Bloody idiot newsreader! 
mixed reports of either balcony collapse or roof
You on Sky Damesy?
It seems to be the roof by what they're saying on BBC 
Originally Posted by Sprout:
You on Sky Damesy?
yep...they are saying ceiling on Sky, two eyewitnesses
My goodness 
Watching on Sky
Eye witnesses there, from balcony say it was ceiling...whatever it was it sounds horrific....fingers crossed that there are no fatalities.
Originally Posted by Izzy Gonyett:
Watching on Sky
Eye witnesses there, from balcony say it was ceiling...whatever it was it sounds horrific....fingers crossed that there are no fatalities.
First the pub, now this
saying some may be trapped
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
saying some may be trapped
Please God they'll be ok Dame.
It seems peculiar that it has done that. How, I wonder? Were there any signs, like cracks and stuff
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien (fka noseyrosie):
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
saying some may be trapped
Please God they'll be ok Dame.
Ditto
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien (fka noseyrosie):
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
saying some may be trapped
Please God they'll be ok Dame.
Hope so Rosie, terrible that something like that can happen in a theatre
OMG
Listening to witnesses who were inside ........unimaginable - such a lovely theatre.
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:
OMG
Listening to witnesses who were inside ........unimaginable - such a lovely theatre.
It is unimaginable! Could it be terrorism or sabotage or something?
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien (fka noseyrosie):
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:
OMG
Listening to witnesses who were inside ........unimaginable - such a lovely theatre.
It is unimaginable! Could it be terrorism or sabotage or something?
I sort of asked something like that up there ^^^
Number of casualties, kids in there as well
The theatre next door is covered in scaffolding...it could be connected with that??
Sky being sensitive as ever, filming a man on a stretcher 
Originally Posted by Izzy Gonyett:
The theatre next door is covered in scaffolding...it could be connected with that??
There's a point
Originally Posted by Aimee:
Sky being sensitive as ever, filming a man on a stretcher
Thank god Kay Burley isn't there, she'd be demanding an interview off the injured
Originally Posted by Aimee:
Sky being sensitive as ever, filming a man on a stretcher
BBC are as daft too. Someone was talking to newsreader but had to go. Newsreader asked if there was anyone else he could pass the phone over to
Originally Posted by Sprout:
Originally Posted by Izzy Gonyett:
The theatre next door is covered in scaffolding...it could be connected with that??
There's a point
MrB has changed channels so i have no idea if they have said why the other theatre has the scaffolding...if it's structural or merely a repaint???
Originally Posted by Sprout:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien (fka noseyrosie):
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:
OMG
Listening to witnesses who were inside ........unimaginable - such a lovely theatre.
It is unimaginable! Could it be terrorism or sabotage or something?
I sort of asked something like that up there ^^^
So you did Sprout 
it does seem peculiar, like you say.
Such a famous theatre should be well maintained and subject to regular inspections, no?
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
Originally Posted by Aimee:
Sky being sensitive as ever, filming a man on a stretcher
Thank god Kay Burley isn't there, she'd be demanding an interview off the injured
True, she'd be blocking the ambulances from leaving
Originally Posted by Aimee:
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
Originally Posted by Aimee:
Sky being sensitive as ever, filming a man on a stretcher
Thank god Kay Burley isn't there, she'd be demanding an interview off the injured
True, she'd be blocking the ambulances from leaving
yes, I could see her doing it Aims she's horrid
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
Originally Posted by Aimee:
Sky being sensitive as ever, filming a man on a stretcher
Thank god Kay Burley isn't there, she'd be demanding an interview off the injured
She probably would that woman! 
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien (fka noseyrosie):
Originally Posted by Sprout:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien (fka noseyrosie):
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:
OMG
Listening to witnesses who were inside ........unimaginable - such a lovely theatre.
It is unimaginable! Could it be terrorism or sabotage or something?
I sort of asked something like that up there ^^^
So you did Sprout it does seem peculiar, like you say.
Such a famous theatre should be well maintained and subject to regular inspections, no?
You would think so
Everyone trapped are out now 
Originally Posted by Aimee:
Everyone trapped are out now
Yeah, I'm seeing that too. That's good I guess
BBC are saying 5 seriously injured and taken to hospital. 40 walking wounded and being treated at theatre next door
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:
OMG
Listening to witnesses who were inside ........unimaginable - such a lovely theatre.
Its one of the finest on Shaftesbury Ave imo. I've seen many a fine show there... Fascinating Aida and Bill Bailey amongst others. 
BBC are now saying 80 injured all together. 76 walking wounded and 4 came out on stretchers
It's bad enough Jen but it could've been worse I guess
Originally Posted by Sprout:
It seems to be the roof by what they're saying on BBC
Not the roof....the ceiling.
Originally Posted by Jenstar:
yeah they said 720 (did i remember that right?) were in there..... but it was only part of the ceiling that came down. I hope everyone isn't too traumatized by it all
Latest report on the BBC is that a ceiling rose broke away along with surrounding plasterwork. It sounds like the rose was supporting a chandelier, so we could be talking about a fair bit of metalwork too.
One thing that I can say is that Soho fire station is literally just along the road from the theatre, so they'd have been onto it immediately.
I can understand people being worried so soon after the Clutha Vaults, though..
More than 80 people are injured - four seriously - none are life threatening,
Eight fire engines had been sent.
76 injured now, 7 serious,
The BBC have done their usual journalistic story stretching.
I saw an interview this morning with someone who had been in the theatre. The presenter in the studio asked:
"I know you are not a structural engineer, but did you notice the condition of the theatreâĶ" The line of questioning seemed desperate to try to contiunue the interview without anything new to say or ask.
They also went on to ask the theatre goer:
"There had been reports of lightning strikes and storms, did you notice anything"?
At this point the interviewee lost patient and gave a terse answer.
The BBC really do try to milk these disaster situations for as much as they can these days - it's getting quite embarrasing.
It's awful news and really not expected in these building regulation days. I'm going to have to keep my wits about me in the next couple of days when I take my mother in her wheelchair to see Barry Humpries' farewell show at the Palladium.
And today a bus crashed in to a tree round not very far away from me. I think a number of people are seriously hurt. Poor people
More than 30 people have been injured, seven of them seriously, in a bus crash in south London.
Two passengers who were trapped on the double-decker bus in Kennington had to be freed, London Fire Brigade said.
The number 59, heading to King's Cross, swerved to avoid a vehicle and hit a tree near the Ship pub on Kennington Road, said Transport for London.
Fire crews, paramedics, the air ambulance and officers from the Metropolitan Police went to the scene.
London Ambulance Service said it treated 32 patients in total.
Twenty-five people were "walking wounded" with cuts and bruises.
The more seriously hurt had mostly head and leg injuries.
The Met Police said one of the seriously injured people was a male police officer, who was on duty and in uniform. He sustained a broken elbow and a pelvic injury.
A man and a woman who were trapped in the bus also had serious leg injuries.
Originally Posted by suzybean:
It's awful news and really not expected in these building regulation days. I'm going to have to keep my wits about me in the next couple of days when I take my mother in her wheelchair to see Barry Humpries' farewell show at the Palladium.
I was thinking about this a lot last night. I don't go to the theatre as much as I used to, but I'm still in and around Shaftesbury Avenue quite a lot and am often at the Curzon cinema (which is just along the road and opposite the fire station). I was considering travelling into the West End tomorrow, but have decided against it (for a number of reasons, not all related).
I was watching the "morning newspapers" section on BBC News 24, and one of the guests reviewers was going on about the state of London theatres and how they need a lot of cash spent on improvements. He made an analogy with football stadiums and how the clubs made massive improvements during the late 80s after decades of lack of investment. While he spoke, all I could think was "Yeah, but that didn't happen until after the Bradford fire disaster..."
You're right Eugegne. So many areas don't really see significant improvements until there's been some sort of disaster/bad publicity. And in some cases the 'BAD' things need to have happened more than once before REAL action is taken.