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A spokesman said it was now known that the I R A were not behind the five terror blasts in the Somerset town on ..

... raided a house and took away bomb-making equipment. The house is 60 miles from Yeovil in the village of Kings Stanley, near Stroud. Gloucestershire. man will be charged tomorrow in connection with the blasts. In all, ten bombs were planted in Yeovil. Five ...

Published: Sunday 25 February 1979
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 275 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WORTHWHILE JOB

... 397 bomb disposal officers and men of the Royal Engineers were killed and 209 injured carrying out their unenviable tasks. In post-war years, the last Servicemen to die were a sergeant and a corporal in May, 1953. In March, 1962, a civilian bomb disposal ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1979
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 286 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

likely today

... likely today A man may be charged today in connection with Friday's bomb blitz of Yeovil. Somerset. A police office? said: I don't think it will be too long before our investigations are complete. Detectives are satisfied only one person is respon• ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 178 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Helped in hijack says Crown

... lookout while bombs were planted at Woolworths, a cafe and at the Munster and Leinster Bank in the town on separate occasions in 1973, and that he had also carried devices into a newsagents shop and a dry cleaners. Damage caused in the bomb attacks amounted ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

likely

... likely A MAN may be charged today in connéction with Fridaf's bomb blitz of Yeovil, Somerset. A police officer said: “I don't think it will be too long before our investigations are complete.” Detectives are satisfied only one person was regponsible for ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Shopgiris cling together in terror as boobs rock Yeovil tetra cadre. Bight: Mermen rescue ma elderly WNW. Warty ..

... Country town. I's unbelievable. Rumours of bombs in other buildings, such as Marks and Spencer. quickly spread. Shops and supermarkets closed earlier than usual. Every package and box was suspect. One of the bombs in the South Street car park is thought ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 234 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ARCHERS STAR IN BLAZE

... couple's bedroom and threatened to cut oft their escape route down the stairs. POLICE investigating the Yeovil bombings, believe they have found a bomb factory at a house in a village near Gloucester. We were very lucky that Adam woke us up. It doesn't hoar ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1979
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 508 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Blasts charge ‘soon’

... seriously injured in last week's bombings in Yeovil, was mchd to be charged or tomorrow, mlmwday. They refused to name the 19 - year - old whom they have been questionin& in connection wi four exmfmn in the Somerset Six other bombs, all the homemade weedkiller ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1979
Newspaper: Kent Evening Post
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... 14 , • .. 7 • Am..„, U S •.,.,,., BOYS Yeovil bombings: teenager to be charged THE teenager seriously injured in Friday's bombings in Yeovil is expected to be charged either later today or tomorrow, police disclosed NUPE leader demoted as strike ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 782 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... NEWS BRISTOL 20080 Classified 297297 SWOOP ON BOMBS FACTORY WEST Device found in terror town POLICE investigating the bomb blasts which shattered Yeovil swooped on house in Gloucestershire and found a mini bomb factory In Yeovil still reeling from the shock ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1979
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 1116 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Starting this week, a tale of quiet, harrowing heroism, that at once is unique yet echoes the experience of ..

... incendiary bombs with stirrup pumps. a Getman plane came over again. bombing and machine - gunning Horses died that night in burning stables at Pet yt Place. others bolted through the streets of Chelsea. At 51011 w same night: Delayed action bomb went off ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1979
Newspaper: Marylebone Mercury
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1285 | Page: 12 | Tags: none