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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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Bomb survivor speaks about lasting effects of blast

Les Robinson was 22-years-old went he was badly injured in the bomb blast in the Tavern in the Town on this night 40 years ago.

Devices planted in the Mulberry Bush underneath the Rotunda building, and in the Tavern in the Town on New Street, exploded at 8.17pm and 8.27pm, killing 21 people and injuring 182 others.

Les describes to ITV News Central reporter Chris Halpin his struggle with going into a pub for the first time after surviving the terrorist attack.

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