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Pub bombings lawyers push for Hillsborough-style funding

Lawyers representing the Birmingham pub bombings families are continuing to push for Hillsborough-style funding for the forthcoming inquest.

It follows an announcement made in the House of Commons that one application for funding has now been granted, and there is a possibility that a second may be.

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Pub bomb survivor does have closure 40 years on

Les Robinson was one of the scores injured when a bomb ripped through The Tavern in the Town pub in Birmingham city centre 40 years ago tonight.

Twenty-one people died and 182 were injured when two devices planted by the IRA exploded in the Mulberry Busy and Tavern in the Town on November 21st 1974.

No one has ever been brought to justice for the bombings, which remains one of Britain's largest unsolved mass murders.

Despite this, Les told ITV News Central reporter Chris Halpin, he does have closure on the events that night.

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