JENNIFER NICHOLSONVicar's daughter and talented musician Jennifer Nicholson died in the 7 July London bomb attacks in 2005, aged 24.She was on her way to work on the Tube when there was an explosion on a train which had just left Edgware Road.Miss Nicholson commuted every day to the city from Reading where she lived with her boyfriend James White - the town being within easy reach of her family in Bristol and her London office.She worked in advertising sales at Rhinegold Publishing, the specialist music company in Central London that produces the British Music Yearbook and Classical Music magazine.Her boss John Simpson led the tributes when he said: "Her sunny disposition made it impossible not to like her. Jenny was adored by all who met her."She had been working for the firm for six months after studying English and music at Reading University and then completing a masters degree in music at Bristol. Before that, she had indulged her love of music through the church choir at St Mary's in Henbury, Bristol, where she was head chorister while her mother was vicar there. She also acted with a local theatre group.The Bishop of Bristol, the Right Reverend Michael Hill, a family friend, said that Jennifer had been a "beautiful, intelligent, vivacious young woman for whom we had such hopes of a bright future"."Through this senseless act of violence the family and the wider community have lost a young woman of great quality," he added.A thousand people attended her funeral at Bristol Cathedral.A total of 52 people were killed and 700 injured when three bombs went off on the Underground. There was a fourth explosion on a bus. The attacks, planned by Islamist extremists, were carried out by four suicide bombers during the rush hour.
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