M62 coach bombing 40th anniversary

It's forty years today since 12 people were killed in a terrorist bombing on a bus on the M62 in West Yorkshire. 9 soldiers, a mother and her two children died when the blast ripped through a coach on it's way to Catterick Garrison.

Derrick and Ruth Yates helped the injured at the local hospital, after hearing the explosion.

Hundreds of people have gathered to mark the 40th anniversary of the IRA's M62 coach bombing which claimed twelve lives. Michael Billington reports.

A memorial service has taken place to mark 40 years since the tragic coach bombing on the M62.

Nine soldiers, a young mother and her two sons died and 38 were injured in the IRA blast on February 4, 1974.

More than 200 people attended the Service of Remembrance to mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy at Hartshead Moor Services