Pub bombing victims to be given posthumous Freedom of the City of Birmingham

Council leaders who have approved the move agree that it will ensure the names and the memory of those killed will never be forgotten. Credit: ITV News.

The unprecedented move has delighted families of the victims as they and the city council leaders who have approved the move agree that it will ensure the names and the memory of those killed will never be forgotten.

Relatives hope it will give impetus to their campaign to win funding parity from the Government for the forthcoming renewed inquest which will begin before the end of the year.Paul Rowlands said:

The announcement comes on the 42nd anniversary of November 21, 1974, when IRA bombers destroyed The Tavern in The Town and The Mulberry Bush pubs.And a week before a new inquest is set to re-open into the deaths of the 21.It follows the lead of the City of Liverpool, which made a similar gesture to the 96 who died in the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989.