Margaret Thatcher’s first public comments on Army bus bombing

Title

Margaret Thatcher’s first public comments on Army bus bombing

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

22 Aug 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:39

Description

Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher gives her first public comments on the bombing of a bus carrying British servicemen in Northern Ireland in which eight soldiers died. 18 year-old Mark Norsworthy, one of the men killed, is from the area the Prime Minister is visiting (Plymouth, Devon). Paul Rowley reports.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Paul Rowley

Keywords

Deaths; Politics; Government; Internal politics; Devon; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; UK; British; IRA; Plymouth; Security; Army; Soldiers; Bombs; Explosions; Internment

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