Obviously today will be remembered all around the world for the catastrophic events in America and loss of so many lives. I watched it on the portable tv in our office in London. Work just stopped for the day as we all watched the events unfold. It was like watching a film but the horror was it was real life.

A couple of days later they started showing the pictures and names of British people that had died and a picture flashed up of someone I knew – Derek Sword. I hadn’t been expecting that at all.