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The Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid his respects through Twitter. He said: "Very sad to hear the news of Margaret Tebbit’s death. "She was a brave woman who showed enormous fortitude in her suffering after the 1984 Brighton bombing. "My thoughts are with Norman and their family at this difficult time." Very sad to hear the news of Margaret Tebbit’s death. She was a brave woman who showed enormous fortitude in her suffering after the 1984 Brighton bombing. My thoughts are with Norman and their family at this difficult time.— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) December 22, 2020 Norman and M...

Politician's wife survived IRA party conference bombing Politician's wife survived IRA party conference bombing December 23, 2020 — 3.25pm Normal text size Advertisement 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 injuring her husband, the Trade and Industry Secretary Norman Tebbit. Though paralysed below the neck, Margaret Tebbit fought back, with the support of her husband, to lead a reasonably full life within the constraints of her need for 24-hour care. She cam...

Margaret Tebbit obituary Julia Langdon It was a measure of the extraordinary strength of the character of Margaret Tebbit, who has died aged 86, that, despite the almost total paralysis she suffered as a result of terrible injuries sustained in the IRA bombing of the Grand hotel in Brighton in 1984, she considered herself lucky to be alive. Although left paralysed from the neck down and able to move only one thumb, she was grateful that she and her husband, Norman Tebbit, the Conservative politician, had survived. “I’m lucky to be here and I’ve got a life which was worth...

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...