THE families of the 52 people killed in the July 7 bombings in 2005 will today hear the verdict of the inquests.

Twenty-one people from Barnet, Borehamwood, Haringey, Wembley and Enfield died when four Al-Qaeda-affiliated suicide bombers detonated homemade devices on three rush-hour Tube trains and a bus.

The inquests into their deaths started last October and ran until March, including at times harrowing videos of the aftermath of the explosions.

Coroner Lady Justice Heather Hallet is expected to make a series of recommendation about the response of emergency services in the wake of the terrorist atrocities.

However, there is no legal obligation for any of the recommendations to be adopted by the different agencies.

During the hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice, it was revealed there were numerous difficulties coordinating the responses of fire, ambulance and police officers, as well as London Underground.

This was particularly apparent for the three Tube attacks, in which bombs exploded just before 9am, but were not identified as explosions for up to 30 minutes.

Families also had the chance to see an MI5 officer, dubbed Witness G, quizzed about what the security services knew about the four suicide bombers before the attacks.

They heard three of the bombers had been under surveillance in the months before the attacks, but Witness G denied the security services could have forseen or stopped the attacks.

The coroner will also decide today, whether inquests into the deaths of the four bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Germaine Lindsay, 19, should be resumed.