2005 in Pictures: London

Four suicide bombers strike London's transport network during the morning rush hour, killing 52 and injuring 700

Trafalgar Square erupts in celebration as it is announced London is to host the 2012 Olympics

Some 200,000 gather in Hyde Park as the world's biggest music stars perform under a Make Poverty History banner

Sally Anne Bowman, who aspired to be a model, is sexually assaulted then murdered outside her family home in Croydon

London's iconic Routemaster buses are being replaced after half a century of service on the city's streets

The England cricket team is given a rapturous reception in Trafalgar Square at the end of an Ashes victory parade

Aaron Balick finds a giant centipede behind his TV set at his home in Islington, north London

BA cancels all flights in and out of Heathrow because of walk-outs by ground staff in support of 600 sacked caterers

Peace activist Brian Haw wins a High Court battle to continue his four-year protest outside the House of Commons

Five people are taken to hospital after bargain hunters are crushed during the opening of a new north London Ikea store

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