Birmingham Mail - Tag - pub bombings

Birmingham's Paddy Hill accepts libel damages after being wrongly convicted of pub bombings

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:48:00 GMT

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.

Birmingham pub bombings: Tory leader plays down new hunt hopes

Birmingham Mail — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:00:00 GMT

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.

Birmingham pub bombings: Families remember victims in moving service

Birmingham Mail — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:13:00 GMT

In a moving ceremony family members placed wreaths on a memorial to the victims, while representatives of the Ambulance, Fire and Police services also laid floral tributes.

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

Birmingham Mail — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:00:00 GMT

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.

Pub Bombings: Blasts that rocked Birmingham - 35 years on

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:00 GMT

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.

Face to face with a bomber

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:47:00 GMT

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.

Pub attacks came out of the blue

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:44:00 GMT

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.

Clinging on to hope of catching killers

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:42:00 GMT

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

Maureen Messent: Living through a backlash

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:39:00 GMT

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

Carl Chinn: 'Scene of utter devastation'

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:36:00 GMT

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