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.