I thought the day was bad when my wife called to tell me to check the news - multiple bombs in London.

Then a friend calls to ask why a police helicopter is hovering over my house. On arriving home, there is an armed response team at the bottom of my garden. My neighbours have been shot dead.

This is small town UK. We don't have such things here, especially not in a house I can see from my bedroom window.

A bit difficult to take in really.