Families of Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings still seek justice
Eleven military personnel and seven horses were killed in the attacks by the IRA 40 years ago.
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Eleven military personnel and seven horses were killed in the attacks by the IRA 40 years ago.
On July 20, 1982, soldiers of the Household Cavalry were riding their steeds through London's Hyde Park to Horse Guards Parade when a bomb - hidden in an Austin Morris - tore through their ranks.
The petition, announced at New Year, claims that the former Labour Prime Minister had been the cause of 'irreparable damage to the constitution of the United Kingdom'.
Families torn apart by IRA attacks hit out at former prime minister Sir Tony Blair for 'providing effective amnesty to murderers and bombers' as part of the 1998 Northern Ireland peace deal.
We trace the connections between the terrorist group and a prominent journalist 5 March 2021 • 8:47pm Roy Greenslade has revealed that while working at the heart of Fleet Street he had been secretly devoted to the paramilitary cause The IRA weapons dump at a remote spot in the Welsh countryside was thought to be intended for a Christmas bombing campaign on the British mainland. In the autumn of 1989 the Sunday Times had heard that police were keeping watch on the secret cache but, with the agreement of Scotland Yard, had chosen not to publish details of its existence. The authorities neede...