‘That sounded like gunfire,’ said one of my dinner companions, glancing towards the window. We were a quarter of a mile upstream of London Bridge, and my jet-lagged, 57-year-old ears hadn’t picked up anything above the buzz of the restaurant. But on the street outside a few minutes later our goodbyes were muted by the sirens of passing police cars and ambulances.
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