Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Harrods bombing refers to the car bomb that exploded outside Harrods department store in central London, England, on Saturday 17 December 1983. Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army planted the time bomb and sent a warning 37 minutes before it exploded, but the area was not evacuated .
In March 1993, police captured them at Hayes' home in Stoke Newington, London. [7] They each received prison sentences of 30 years for the January Harrods bombing and for a second attack on a train a month later which caused extensive damage but no casualties. Hayes was also convicted of conspiracy to cause three additional explosions in 1992.
8 March - 1973 Old Bailey bombing - The Provisional IRA conducted their first operations in England exploding two car bombs in the center of London. One bomb exploded outside the Old Bailey Courthouse, injuring 180 people and one man later died from a heart attack, the bomb exploded near Whitehall injuring about 30 other people, bringing the total injured for the day to over 200.
Harrods apologised on Thursday after more than 20 women told the BBC Al Fayed had sexually abused and in some cases raped them. "Underneath Harrods glitz and glamour was a toxic, unsafe and ...
"Holy War at Harrods" is a 1995 magazine article by Maureen Orth that was published in Vanity Fair. The article was about businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed and detailed his career and his management of the London department store Harrods. The article included details of alleged sexual assaults committed by Al-Fayed.
On 6 December 1975, officers working for the Metropolitan Police chased Butler, Joe O'Connell, Hugh Doherty and Harry Duggan by car through London's streets after they'd witnessed the group directing automatic fire into Scott's restaurant in Mayfair. They became trapped, forced their way into the home of Sheila and John Matthews at 22B Balcombe ...
The "sewer" mention appears to have been directed at the Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, which was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004, a year before the Harrods statue.
More than one million passport applications could be stuck in a bottleneck when HM Passport Office staff strike for five weeks from the start of April.. In a “significant escalation” of a ...