BBC NEWS | UK | Two car bombs found in West End

Police have confirmed they are now investigating the discovery of two car bombs in the West End of London.Police said the second device had been found in a Mercedes hours after the car was given a parking ticket in Cockspur Street and towed to Park Lane.

Another Mercedes, with a bomb made up of 60 litres of petrol, gas cylinders and nails, had been found outside a nightclub in Haymarket at 0130 BST.

Both bombs were similar, potentially viable and clearly linked, police said.

This gave me the cold chills this morning. I know Haymarket faily well – it was “my London neighborhood” on my first trip to Britain with Mom 20 years ago or so. We were just a couple of streets over, at the Thistle Trafalgar Square, and we often went up and down Haymarket to get somewhere. Ended up spending time in a pub there one night and got the “tourist lowdown” on the history of the Haymarket area.

London is a wonderful, surprisingly intimate city, and although today’s news is unsettling, I know that London I know and love is not afraid.