"We are not afraid and you will not win" that was the defiant message to the terrorists as the first named victim of the London bombings was laid to rest.

Up to 100 grieving family members and friends of legal secretary Susan Levy gathered at Golders Green Crematorium on Sunday to pay their last respects.

Mrs Levy, a 53-year-old mother-of-two from Cuffley, was killed when a bomb tore apart a Piccadilly Line train shortly after it left King's Cross.

Her husband Harry, who last week said the family were "distraught" at their loss, attended the ceremony with sons Daniel, 25, and Jamie, 23.

Also facing the enormity of her loss was Yvonne Nash, whose partner Jamie Gordon of Enfield, was killed in the blast on the number 30 bus in Tavistock Square.

Describing Jamie as her "soulmate", Ms Nash said: "I seem to be waking at 4am every morning, it is the most emotional time. I wake up thinking, He is not coming home, he is not coming home' and I feel panicky because he is not. I feel very alone."

Amid the heartache came hope for the family of Danielle Kolias, the 19-year-old who had been in intensive care after she was seriously injured in the King's Cross blast.

Ms Kolias was released from the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead on Saturday morning and was recovering at the family's Edmonton home. "We are just delighted that she is alive and well," said her grandfather Christakis Kolias.

Thousands of people left their places of work and stood on the streets and traffic stopped as people paid their respects to the dead during Thursday's two-minute silence.

Messages of grief scribbled into books of condolence were shot through with a sense of defiance as people faced up to the news the suicide bombers were British-born.

"All my condolences to the families and friends of those who perished not in the name of God. God is love," wrote Hannah Harris, of Orchard Terrace in Enfield.

Enfield Council leader Mike Rye and leader of the opposition Cllr Jeff Rodin issued a joint statement to the terrorists who may be planning further attacks on the capital.

It read: "We are not afraid and you will not win. Londoners have withstood fire, plague, the blitz and other terrorists' bombs throughout its long history, time will tell that we withstood your bombs too."