}127979      TORY CONF BOMB BLAST:  Two people are known to have died
12.10.84     in this morning's IRA bomb attack on the Grand Hotel,
TX           Brighton, where many Conservative delegates are staying
             for the party conf.  Police and firemen search the rubble
             for more bodies.  27 are injured.  British PM Margaret
             Thatcher says the Conf will continue as usual, and is
             given a standing ovation for her speech against
             terrorism.  Witnesses give their account of the blast.
             CULLEN,SARAH/LLOYD,TERRY/DAVIES,PAUL/STOURTON,ED/
             GOODMAN,ELINOR

             a) NAT:  Mr and Mrs Thatcher into   VID ex ENG(ITN)
                Conf hall on evening of 11.10.84 via L/B
             b) NAT: Wrecked hotel; John Wakeham VID ex ENG(ITN)
                (Tory Chief Whip) injured, Royal via L/B
                Sussex Hospital; intvws Andrew
                Partington (Hosp Admin), PC
                Richard Smith (injured), Stephen
                Day (injured conf rep), Viscount
                William Whitelaw (HOL Ldr); PKF
                Roger Birch (Sussex Chf Const);
                hotel masonry falling
             c) NAT: Thatcher visits hospital,   VID ex ENG(ITN)
                SOF; Lloyd I/C                   via L/B
             d) NAT: Crane pulling masonry down, VID ex ENG(ITN)
                Davies I/C                       via L/B
             e) C4N: Firemen rescue people from  VID ex ENG(ITN)
                rubble, incl Sir Walter Clegg MP via L/B
                & Harvey Thomas (Conf Organiser);
                intvw Thatcher, Brittan, Gummer,
                Lawson, Sir Keith Joseph (Educ
                Sec), Nija Deva (Ed, Crossbow),
                Cllr Michael Whitby
             f) C4N: Conference security -       VID ex ENG(ITN)
                ministers & wives luncheon;      via L/B
                police barricades; intvw Nick    
                Ball (Conf deleg) & Paul Boswell
                (Gen Manager, Grand Hotel) on
                security at hotel; PKF Roger
                Birch (Sussex Chf Const) & Leon
                Brittan (Home Sec)
             g) C4N: Whitelaw outside bombed     VID ex ENG(ITN)/CH4
                hotel; police collect dust;      via L/B
                intvw John Hall (Fireman); John
                Wakeham from ambulance; intvw
                Harvey Thomas (Conf Orgnsr);intvw
                Denis Thatcher; Mrs Thatcher and
                Gummer at Party Conf, speeches by
                Bob Hughes, John Taylor MEP, John
                Rutherford, Douglas Hurd (NI Sec);
                intvw John Biffen (Ldr of HOC)
             h) NAO: Wrecked hotel; Wakeham from VID ex ENG(ITN)
                ambulance; Brittan at Hospital;  via L/B
                Alfred Parsons (Australian High
                Commsnr) intvw; Whitelaw intvw;
                PKF Roger Birch (Sussex Chf Const)

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