I think a lot of us exetarians are still asking why anyone would want to bomb exeter. It certainly isn't on the map, thats for sure.

It turned out that the bombing was not really that major and just got blown way out of proportion, although at the time it was quite scary. I was at work at 2 when I heard on the news that a resturant in town had been bombed. I didn't hear any details of how bad it was, but knew it was the princesshay development so I assumed it was something big.

Anyway I was already freaked out because I was actually heading into town and princesshay is right in the middle of it. I met mother dearest and we caught the bus in. The whole of the hight street was blocked off, so town was basically closed for a day. People that were visiting exeter for the day couldnt go home because the car parks were all inside the town. First only one part of town was shut off but as another threat came in they cut off the whole area. We hung around in town for a couple of hours, wondering how bad it had been.

Apparantly, in the end it was some dickhead with a nail bomb. According to the news a "white convert to islam" entered the resturant with a nail bomb, assembled it in the toilet and set it off, only really causing injury to himself. He has some facial burns but everyone else is ok evidently. They also found another device and disabled it from what I hear.

So, yeah. It was weird seeing the whole of the middle of exeter completely disserted. The bus station was evacuated, EVERY shop was closed. There were loads of people all gathered outside the bus station because they wanted to go home etc.

In the end we just got on a bus and came home, wanted to get the hell out of dodge.

So yeah Exeter is still in one piece lols.