©Universal News and Sport, Scotland.

Glasgow airport, it’s not the best airport in the world, although it is the one which means I’m close to my own home and bed. But even though it isn’t the best, or my favourite, I wouldn’t go so far as to drive a Cherokee jeep into it packed full of propane gas cylinders and fuel….which is what happened on July 1st when two terrorists decided to try and cause carnage. Thankfully they were unsuccesful.

I was discussing the images that came from this attack with two friends here in Tokyo a couple of nights ago. I was telling them how pleased I was to see that it was a Scottish colleague of mine, Maurice McDonald, who was being bylined beside the images. And what great images they were. I could hardly believe he’d got from the city centre to the airport ( a 15 minute drive in normal traffic) in time to photograph the police holding down one of the terrorists (as above). So a few nights ago my friends and I debated the logistics of how he heard about the incident, and how he got there so fast. But then another colleague told me the story….

Which you can read here. It seems Maurice couldn’t get close to the airport due to security clampdown after the attack, but he did manage to arrange a syndication deal with one Spanish tourist, Antonio Sanchez from Lanzarote, who had photographed the happenings in the minutes after the failed terrorist attack. The pictures were subsequently sold all over the world to various newspapers and media groups. Well done Universal News…and Antonio Sanchez.