Bombing survivor Gill Hicks with her daughter Amelie, left, at King’s Cross station.

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A woman who lost her legs in the 7/7 London bombings yesterday revealed her daughter was christened at the fountain in Russell Square where her own life was saved by paramedics.
Gill Hicks was near 19-year-old terrorist Jermaine Lindsay in a tightly packed Tube carriage when he detonated a suicide bomb, killing 26 people.
The Australian was the last person to be pulled alive from the wreckage. She lost both legs below the knee and 75% of her blood.Now she walks with high-tech titanium prosthetics and her daughter, Amelie, two, often affectionately calls her “Mummy robot”.
Amelie was christened with the water from the fountain in the garden square, which is close to the Tube station.
Hicks, 46, who worked in Covent Garden as the Design Council’s head of curation but returned to her native Adelaide after the attack, said: “It’s been two years since I was in London for Amelie’s christening.
“All the rescuers are her god family.
“Russell Square is part of me, the rescuers are part of my family and one of the lead paramedics, Tracy Russell, is my best friend. For Amelie to be born into that just makes sense.
“Being a mum is a great challenge in itself, just being very aware of my limitations with a very active toddler, it’s been a whole new world.”
The christening was conducted by the reverend Julie Nicholson, whose daughter, Jenny, died at Edgware Road.
Hicks has returned to the capital with her partner, Amelie’s father Karl Falzon, for the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks.
She spoke to the Standard at King’s Cross, where she boarded the Piccadilly line train on July 7, 2005, alongside her friend Julie Siddiqi, a writer and former executive director of the Islamic Society of Britain.
They are asking Londoners to get off the Tube, bus or train a stop early on Tuesday — the anniversary of the bombings — and walk the rest of their journey to show solidarity on the city’s streets. They are encouraged to post a picture on Twitter with the hashtag #WalkTogether.
Hicks, who founded the MAD for Peace non-profit organisation, said: “When my life was saved on that morning of July 7 I absolutely knew that I had to devote my everything to making a difference.” Today she was due to visit St Thomas’ hospital where on 7/7 she was admitted as “One Unknown”.
Hicks said: “Not only was my life finally saved there, it was the place where my second life began.
“They’re the people who taught me how to walk, I had to re-learn everything, even just balance was something that had to be taught. Filling a kettle, picking up a handbag — which they taught me using sandbags. I was meant to be there for six months but I walked out three and a half months later.”
Hicks no longer uses the Tube — but she did “complete the journey” in 2011, taking the Piccadilly line to Covent Garden.