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The first baby from the Alle-Kiski Valley born in 2021 is a boy from Verona. Carter Magee made his debut at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital at 12:54 a.m. Friday, weighing 7 pounds, 4 ounces and measuring 19.5 inches long. Baby Carter’s parents are Jennifer Celender and Patrick Magee of Verona. Mom showed off the new arrival Friday afternoon via a Zoom conference from her hospital room. Baby Carter, cradled by his mom and wrapped in a navy blanket, was on his best baby behavior during his first interview. She said little Carter’s arrival on New Year’s wasn’t a complete surprise. “He was d...

And so the number of those murdered by the IRA at Brighton in 1984 rises to six.  Margaret Tebbit, nursed faithfully by her husband during long years of pain and paralysis, died last week. There is no doubt that her death was caused by the terrorist Patrick Magee. Yet the IRA man who planted the bomb was freed as part of the surrender to the IRA imposed on us in 1998 by our American allies. He is unhurt. He has emitted words which some have foolishly seen as remorse, but they are not.  Look at them: ‘My involvement in the Irish Republican Army and the whole armed struggle was necessary si...

(BrianAJackson/Getty Images) Margaret Tebbit’s life was a determined struggle not to surrender to her paralysis. Thirty-six years ago, in the early morning of October 12th, 1984, an IRA bomb exploded in the Grand Hotel, Brighton, during the Tory Party annual conference. It narrowly failed to kill its principal target, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but it killed five people and it severely injured another 31. Two of the most seriously injured victims that night were Norman Tebbit, then-secretary of state for Industry and a rising star of Thatcherite Toryism, and his wife, Ma...

The scene of the bombing on October 12, 1984 "I'm glad to say that she never forgave those who blew up the Grand Hotel," Lord Tebbit remarked. "We all know it's a Christian duty to forgive - but not those who will not repent, and of course the people who did this have never repented; they were joyful about what they had done." Belfast IRA man Patrick Magee was convicted of planting the killer bomb and given eight life sentences at the Old Bailey in 1986, with a recommendation that he spend at least 35 years in jail. He was released in 1999 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.

Lady Tebbit, campaigner and former nurse badly injured in the 1984 Brighton bombing – obituary Cared for by her husband Norman after the blast at the Conservative Party conference, she went on to champion research into spinal injuries 21 December 2020 • 5:50pm Margaret and Norman Tebbit at the 1983 Conservative Party conference, one year before the bombing Credit: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images Lady Tebbit, who has died aged 86, suffered severe spinal injuries when the IRA bombed the Grand Hotel at Brighton during the 1984 Conservative conference, also seriously injurin...