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‘My hospital notes said: estimated female’: jazz musician Gill Hicks on being caught in the 7/7 bombings

After being pulled from the wreckage, she spent months learning how to speak again. Now, 20 years on, Hicks is performing her beloved jazz standards on stage – and remembering those who saved her life

She has already performed a version of it in Australia, where she now lives, but for its London outing she hopes around 20 members of the medical and emergency teams who attended that day will be in the audience. Hicks is believed to have been the last survivor pulled from the wreckage some 40 minutes later, her injuries so bad that when she arrived at hospital she was simply labelled: “One unknown, estimated female”. Before that, lying in the dark smoke-filled carriage, having used her scarf as a tourniquet around what was left of her legs to stop the bleeding, Hicks remembers making what she describes as a contract.

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