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MaxB June 20th 10 04:33 PM

Tory MP struck by train
 
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...s/10357834.stm
for more. Was this Victoria mainline or Underground?

Lucky to be struck by a train and receive minor injuries. Couldn't
have been a slam door anyway!

MaxB

Paul Terry[_2_] June 20th 10 05:02 PM

Tory MP struck by train
 
In message
,
MaxB writes

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...s/10357834.stm
for more. Was this Victoria mainline or Underground?

Lucky to be struck by a train and receive minor injuries. Couldn't
have been a slam door anyway!


Sadly, press reports in the last few hours suggest it was a failed
suicide attempt by the MP.
--
Paul Terry

Tim Roll-Pickering June 20th 10 05:34 PM

Tory MP struck by train
 
MaxB wrote:

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...s/10357834.stm
for more. Was this Victoria mainline or Underground?


I'm told it was the mainline Gatwick Express.



[email protected] June 20th 10 06:09 PM

Tory MP struck by train
 
In article
,
(MaxB) wrote:

See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...s/10357834.stm
for more. Was this Victoria mainline or Underground?

Lucky to be struck by a train and receive minor injuries. Couldn't
have been a slam door anyway!


Anyone know why he was at Victoria, given that he's MP for Bury St Edmunds
in Suffolk?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Roland Perry June 20th 10 06:46 PM

Tory MP struck by train
 
In message , at 18:55:21 on
Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Paul Corfield remarked:

In the normal course of events it is very difficult to suffer injury
from using a train at a terminal station.


Somewhat poor choice of the word "terminal", if I may so bold to say.
--
Roland Perry

Paul Terry[_2_] June 20th 10 07:08 PM

Tory MP struck by train
 
In message ,
writes

Anyone know why he was at Victoria, given that he's MP for Bury St Edmunds
in Suffolk?


It's the nearest mainline station to his London flat (in Pimlico).
--
Paul Terry

Roland Perry June 20th 10 07:59 PM

Tory MP struck by train
 
In message , at 13:09:05
on Sun, 20 Jun 2010, remarked:
Anyone know why he was at Victoria, given that he's MP for Bury St Edmunds
in Suffolk?


His desired destination is rumoured not to have been Bury St Edmunds.
--
Roland Perry

redcat June 20th 10 08:30 PM

Tory MP struck by train
 
Paul Terry wrote:
In message ,
writes

Anyone know why he was at Victoria, given that he's MP for Bury St
Edmunds
in Suffolk?


It's the nearest mainline station to his London flat (in Pimlico).


Latest says he threw himself under a train:

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed...lf-under-train

Tim Roll-Pickering June 20th 10 09:51 PM

Tory MP struck by train
 
wrote:

Anyone know why he was at Victoria, given that he's MP for Bury St Edmunds
in Suffolk?


MPs have committments up and down the country; fortunately they're not (all)
mere parochial parish pump politicians with no perspective beyond the
boundaries of their constituency.



[email protected] June 20th 10 10:16 PM

Tory MP struck by train
 
In article ,
(redcat) wrote:

Paul Terry wrote:
In message ,
writes

Anyone know why he was at Victoria, given that he's MP for Bury St
Edmunds in Suffolk?


It's the nearest mainline station to his London flat (in Pimlico).


Latest says he threw himself under a train:


http://www.allvoices.com/contributed...ows-himself-un
der-train

Also The Scottish Sun and Independent -
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...rent-suicide-a
ttempt-on-rail-line-2005610.html otherwise http://snipurl.com/xlirn.

--
Colin Rosenstiel


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