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The bomb attack on the Grand Hotel early this morning was first and foremost an inhuman, undiscriminating attempt to massacre innocent unsuspecting men and women staying in Brighton for our Conservative Conference. ...
Patrick Joseph Magee (born 1951) [1] is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer who is best known for planting a bomb in the Brighton Grand Hotel targeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet, which killed five people. He is often referred to as 'the Brighton bomber'. [2]
The Grand Brighton Hotel is a Victorian sea-front hotel in Brighton on the south coast of England. ... The hotel following the 1984 bombing.
The blast – 40 years ago on October 12, 1984 – tore apart the Brighton Grand Hotel, where the then-prime minister and members of her cabinet were staying while the Conservative Party ...
A huge fire ripped through an historic hotel in Brighton on Saturday, 15 July. The blaze broke out at the 200-year-old Royal Albion Hotel close to the seafront and Brighton Palace Pier. Emergency ...
12 October – Brighton hotel bombing: the IRA carried out a bomb attack on the Grand Brighton Hotel, which was being used as a base for the Conservative Party Conference. Five people, including MP Anthony Berry, were killed. Margaret and Denis Thatcher were at the scene but unharmed. [30]
Then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher, helped by her husband Denis, leaving the Grand Hotel, Brighton following a bomb blast which ripped through the building causing severe damage and many ...
On 12 October 1984, Berry was murdered in the Brighton hotel bombing, when a bomb was planted in the Grand Brighton Hotel during the Conservative Party Conference. He was 59. [6] He was survived by his wife, Lady Berry, who was injured in the blast. [5]