I learnt towards the end of our conversation that he actually did quite a lot of advertising because he owned his own business, the Carphone Warehouse. I first met Charles at a dinner party in 1998. I didn't know who he was, and he was quite dismissive of advertising. What with the new leisure visas for Chinese citizens, and London 2012 and then this we have had constant phone calls - its been quite intense.30/07/05 * News broke about Osman Hussain escaping on Eurostar - neither the cross-channel company nor British customs officials checked his passport on the outgoing train.EUROSTAR REFUSED TO COMMENT. We got our first research back that covered the period 7 - 20 of July. That put a figure on the impact of the first incident which was a loss of £300m from inbound tourism.It's been quite mad actually.

We didn't have those figures, but we do have an internal group here that meets to assess the possible impact of events and to reassure our staff and that group met on the afternoon of the 7th. The Tourism Industry Emergency Response Group - TIER - met on the Friday morning with representatives from big industry players like British Airways, DCMS and others to asses, gather and co-ordinate intelligence on the impact. I knew Wednesday night that the focus would be on community leaders. We have got four or five Asian councillors, so on the Wednesday night we were in contact with them. We had helped set up the two minute silence in Market Square on the Thursday, I had been making sure the Immam went to that.

The Thursday when we had the press conference was fairly frantic, I had staff who were meeting the media, showing them where to park, taking them to the venue, directing them to Northern Road, where Jermaine Lindsay lived.22/07/05* Visit Britain press office start getting hundreds of press calls about their report on the impact of 7 July attacks on British tourism, published on 21stElliott Frisby, Corporate PR Manager, Visit BritainWe started getting busy on the Friday with non-stop calls from press regarding the impact the attacks had on tourism. But what I can do is make sure the media had good factual information like we have nil unemployment here and it's a very prosperous area with great relationships between the different ethnic communities. There's not much you can do when a bomber has been found in a house in Aylesbury. Press conference held the following dayTeresa Lane, Head of Communications, Aylesbury Vale District CouncilWhen we had the raid, we had to set up with the police a press conference time and venue and let local people know what was going on I also had to protect the reputation of Aylesbury Vale.