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David Scott posted:, external "Working on the buses in London that day as a route controller and it was one of the hardest and most upsetting days i had ever worked. RIP to the 52 that perished that day."

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Liz in Toronto, tweets, external: Remembering 7/7. The attack on my second country left me reeling and afraid. 10 years on, London couldn't be more beautiful #walktogether

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Prince William has been talking to victims' families and survivors at the 7 July London bombings Hyde Park memorial service in Hyde Park.

Here, he is photographed speaking to Emma Craig, who was only 14 at the time.

Emma's Craig's emotional address at the Hyde Park service is attracting comment on social media. She was 14 and on her way to a work experience job, when a suicide bomber detonated a device on the Tube train she was on near Aldgate station. You can watch it again here.

"Sometimes I feel people are so hell-bent on making a point about terrorism not breaking us, that they forget about the people caught up in it," she said.

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7 July London bombings survivor Shanie Ryan met Prince William in Hyde Park earlier.

He told her :"I know about loss. It helps to talk to people."

British Transport Police's Bob Munn, who was the first uniformed officer on the scene at Aldgate Station after hearing of an explosion on 7 July 2005, said there was no doubt in his mind a bomb had been detonated.

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Mr Munn said it was dark inside the station and the air was heavy, making it difficult to breathe. "People were shouting for help," he said. "It was chaotic, but I could see that two main doors of the train had been blown out.

"My first, immediate assessment was that it was a bomb. I've seen bomb damage before. It could have been nothing else."

As his radio didn't work in the underground, he had to run back up to street level to declare "a major incident". He then went back down to help.

Sam White tweets, external: I only had 10 minutes of fear before I knew @mad_dog78 didn't get on a tube 10 years ago. Some live with that for a lifetime #walktogether

London's Evening Standard newspaper reflects on the events, external of 7 July 2005 its leader column tonight, while paying tribute to the way the city's residents reacted.

"The ghastly novelty of 7/7 - of suicide attacks in an open western city - remains essentially the same today," it says.

"For some of the injured and for the families of the dead, the scars will never heal. Today we remember them and we grieve for the lives shattered.

"But we also take quiet strength from our city's response - our response - to such horror. This is a city that cannot be broken."

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A lot of emotion at 7 July London bombings Hyde Park memorial service as families laid flowers.

There was a spontaneous applause from members of the public who have gathered.

Andy emails: I was in the second carriage on the train at Kings Cross. I suffered minor cuts and bruising to my back and head. I was shielded by a glass partition that smashed during the blast. I was seen briefly by a medic when we made it back to the station platform but then simply discharged myself as I just wanted to get away. I was in a complete state of shock. Weeks later after suffering from flashbacks I went to see my GP who referred me for counselling. I was diagnosed with PTSD but only had two sessions as I felt almost unworthy in light what trauma and grief others had experienced.

The service ends with the Duke of Cambridge laying a bouquet of flowers at the memorial.

BBC News correspondent Daniella Relph says the Hyde Park service was arranged by the families and had been a year in the planning.

"Quite a lot of emotion has been pouring out," she says.

"It was planned by them, and it has been conducted in a way that the families of those who died 10 years ago wanted.

"We've had the formal event at St Paul's Cathedral but this was their event."

Gerald Oppenheim, former chairman of the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund, asks relatives of the those who died, and survivors, to each lay a single yellow gerbera flower at the memorial. Some touch the pillars as they line up to participate.

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It includes the response to the Walk Together initiative, which encouraged people to get off the Tube one stop early and travel the rest of way on foot.

Esther Hyman, sister of Miriam Hyman who died in the Tavistock Square bus explosion, speaks at the Hyde Park service on behalf of the families of the bereaved.

She suggests it is important to "relinquish the need to cling on to any negative emotions".

Tim Coulson, a survivor of the Edgware Road explosion, is now reading out the names of the 52 victims.

It is now the turn of Paul Dadge, a former fire fighter who famously was pictured on 7 July outside Edgware Road Tube station helping a woman victim in a mask, to address the service in Hyde Park.

"Ten years on I see many of the faces I came to meet on that day," he says. "Like so many others that day... I did what I could. The difference for me was simply an image that meant what I did was made public."

Joe Anderson, Mayor of Liverpool, tweets, external: On the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 bombings, our thoughts and prayers are with all those who died and suffered on that tragic day.

Sudhesh Dahad, a survivor of the bombing on the Piccadilly line at King's Cross on 7 July 2005, is addressing the service in Hyde Park. It is the first time he has spoken about the events of the day.

Mr Dahad says the memories of the day can resurface in unexpected ways.

He is followed by Emma Craig, who was 14 when caught up in the attack at Aldgate station, and is in tears as she recounts the experience.

Charles Meaden in Penselwood, Somerset emails: I was in the Edgware Road train that was hit by the blast from the train coming the opposite way. I was in the last carriage. When the bomb exploded I thought we had hit another train and my first thought was I don't want to burn to death. There was a deathly silence for about 30 seconds then the most ghastly screaming. I remember everyone being very calm. Paramedics checked us over and led us through the mangled debris. I then walked to Marble Arch and got a cab home. I have not been contacted since and felt for a while I was suffering from survivor guilt complex.

Claire Nelson, writer, tweets, external: 10yrs ago I was new to London & stuck on Tube after bombs went off. Today, witnessing two London friends get married. 7/7 from hate to love.

A minute's silence is observed.

Prince William is sitting alongside former Labour minister Tessa Jowell at the service. In the aftermath of 7 July 2005, she was in charge of co-ordinating the government's response to the attacks.