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ALA SSIFIED INDEX in bomb blitz as IRA brings terror to market

... ALA SSIFIED INDEX in bomb blitz as IRA brings terror to market A.man aged 22 was heing quizzed by police last night after a ga.s-bottle bomb b'itz in the Somerset town of The Provisional IRA In fhiblin !aloe claimed responsibility for the attack% Market-day ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 343 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRIEFLY ... . I Airliner hijackers tried to set off petrol bombs

... BRIEFLY . I Airliner hijackers tried to set off petrol bombs THREE PEOPLE hijacked a Soviet airliner on a flight from Oslo to Moscow yesterday and tried to set off petrol bombs on board but were overpowered by guards and crew members. Police in Stockholm ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1979
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 431 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Sunday Mercury February 25 ‘Bombs factory’ had roof blown in which injured four' people in all The devices were of

... Sunday Mercury February 25 ‘Bombs factory’ had roof blown in which injured four' people in all The devices were of sort which could have been made by sehoolbof” he said Tenth Army bomb disposal experts detonated a tenth bomb in Yeovil yesterday Two of ...

Published: Sunday 25 February 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 996 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

4 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1979 “I'm naughty Norma, as rand¥ as they come. When ?t turned on by the bombs,

... 4 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1979 “I'm naughty Norma, as rand¥ as they come. When ?t turned on by the bombs, I'll leap on top of anything in a uniform. Blonde, braless and eminently buxom, Debbie Watling sits in her flat overlooking Wandsworth Common, reflecting ...

Published: Monday 12 February 1979
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ISa t a n’s 60ft hell and an error MORE THAN 5000 high explosive bombs were dropped on Birmingham during

... (250Kg) the principal types of German bombs t f p e c series UXb'' how in unexpioded bomb which safely in s hoisted from the fuse up clock could still These cut in pocket straight out steamed explosive Mr bombs versa found hazardous work The wartime ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1979
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 315 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

By STUART BIRCH

... Patrick this was no holiday . . . and the prize was a terrorist bomb. Patrick is 44, has left the Army, is now working for a London stores group and is writing a book about life among bombs. He spent 14 months in Northern Ireland returning to England in ...

Published: Tuesday 20 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 459 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

UXBs— therealdrama

... years, 1973 and 1975 were literally boom years with 90 and 106 bomb calls respectively. Between 1940 and 1949, Royal Engineer bomb disposal “sappers’’ had 36,988 instances reported to them of bomb finds. Of these, they dealt with 24,326, A total of 15304 were ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1979
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 589 | Page: 5 | Tags: none