The Grand Hotel bomb, planted in Room 629 by IRA operative Patrick Magee four weeks before, detonated at 2.54am, ripping through the top of the building and causing floors to collapse - PA ...

The 1984 bombing of Brighton’s Grand Hotel was the most audacious terrorist attack ever on the British Government and one of the IRA’s most significant attacks on mainland Britain during the ...

How the Brighton Bombing 30 ... I n the early hours of Oct. 12 1984, a bomb packed with 20lb of gelignite gouged a ragged O of surprise—or outrage—in the frontage of Brighton’s Grand Hotel.

Lord Tebbit was a devoted husband and was married to his wife Margaret for more than 60 years before she died in 2020. But ...

Former Rangers owner Sir David Murray has told how the police spoke to him in the aftermath of the Brighton Bomb.

Brighton hotel bombing. 12 Oct 2024 'We immediately knew it was a bomb' Those caught up in the Brighton hotel bomb share their memories of that night with the BBC. 12 Oct 2024. UK.

READ MORE: Brighton remembers 40 years on from IRA Grand Hotel bomb “I think we should all spare thoughts and thanks to the emergency services who dealt so amazingly with what happened that night.

Five people died when an IRA bomb ripped Brighton’s Grand Hotel apart – 30 years on eye-witnesses tell Dani Garavelli their stories. All Sections. Dare to be Honest. Sign In. Subscribe.

A Tory MSP who was at the Brighton hotel bombing shortly before the explosion hit told Holyrood of the “long shadow” the attack by the IRA has had on politics.. Jackson Carlaw was among ...

Norman Tebbit's former special adviser recalls the horror of waking up at the Grand Hotel in Brighton when the IRA bomb exploded Michael Dobbs, right, with Norman and Margaret Tebbit My world fell ...

At 2.54am on October 12, 1984, a deafening blast tore through The Grand hotel in Brighton as part of a bid to assassinate the then prime minister at the height of the Troubles. The IRA bomb had ...