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As the world watched the full horror of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon unfold; several regional journalists have been telling how they witnessed the terror first hand.

One journalist who was at one of the World Trade Centre towers at the time of the terrorist attack was Stephen Evans, a former Western Telegraph reporter.

Mr Evans, who now works for the BBC, said: "There was a huge bang. It felt to me like somebody dropped a skip full of rubbish from a great height in the yard, which separates the two towers.

"The building physically shook. Seconds later there were two or three similar huge explosions."

Martin Heminway, news editor of the Bradford Telegraph & Argus, was also nearby when the attack happened, as he and his wife - who were on their honeymoon - queued at the Empire State Building.

He said: "Almost immediately the first howls of fire and ambulance sirens filled the streets as convoys of emergency vehicles raced towards the scene.

"Queues of people were forming at every public phonebox as people phoned friends or relatives they knew who worked at the World Trade Centre.

"They were surrounded by crowds of people on mobile phones, also checking the safety of people they knew and trying to find out what had happened."

As Birmingham Post reporter Emma Brady was about to board a sightseeing cruise in New York she saw smoke billowing out of one of the Trade Towers.

She said: "Within minutes I saw a plane head towards the tower and explode as it smashed into the glass and concrete landmark.

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