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Man wrongly convicted of Birmingham pub bombings accepts libel damages

A man who was wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings has accepted undisclosed libel damages over a suggestion that there were grounds to believe he was guilty.Read

Birmingham pub bombings: Tory leader plays down new hunt hopes

CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron last night urged the people of Birmingham to look to the future as they marked the 35th anniversary of the IRA pub bombings which killed 21 people and injured 182 others.Read

Ex IRA bomber admits: Birmingham pub bombings were "a mistake"

ONE of the most seriously injured survivors of the Birmingham pub bombings has revealed she received an astonishing private admission from a prominent former IRA bomber.Read

Pub Bombings: Blasts that rocked Birmingham - 35 years on

THIRTY five years may have passed, but the pain has not diminished for the survivors and the families who lost loved ones in Birmingham’s 1974 pub bombings.Read

Birmingham Pub Bombings were a 'mistake' IRA bomber tells survivor

A FORMER IRA bomber has told one of the survivors that the Birmingham Pub Bombings were “a mistake” that would never be publicly admitted by the IRA.Read

1974 Lord Mayor of Birmingham: Bombings came out of the blue

THE 1974 Lord Mayor of Birmingham said this week that the bombings came out of the blue. Jim Eames, now aged 93, launched a bomb fund within a few hours of the blasts and the fund handed out more than £400,000 to the victims.Read

Relatives of pub bombings victim hope to catch killers

MAXINE Hambleton was just 18 when she went to the Tavern in the Town to hand out tickets to friends for a house party.Read

Maureen Messent: Living through a backlash

WE STILL feel uncomfortable that the pub bombings atrocity is a chunk of Birmingham-Irish history.Read

Maureen Messent: David Essex was No.1 and a 'superb meal' was under £2

IT SHOULD have been a happy countdown to Christmas 1974 as we worked, shopped and enjoyed full employment in the then-prosperous Birmingham.Read

Carl Chinn remembers 'scene of utter devastation'

IN 1974, the trauma of the IRA pub bombings overwhelmed the people of Birmingham.Read

Image gallery: Scenes from the Birmingham Pub Bombings 1974

On November 21, 1974, 21 people were killed when the IRA exploded two bombs in Birmingham. The bombs went off in the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern In The Town pubs, injuring a further 182 people.Read

Birmingham Mail archives from the time of the pub bombings

Birmingham Pub Bombings anniversary: 35 years on.Read

Birmingham pub bombings: Remembering the victims

Victims of the IRA bombs which exploded in Birmingham on November 21, 1974.Read