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.
Mainland Britain lived in the shadow of terrorism during the 1970s, with bombings commonplace, but the Birmingham bombs were to be the deadliest of the decade.
Attitudes towards the city's Irish community during the Northern Ireland Troubles was tense before that night. Now hostility became hatred.
Bomb survivor Les Robinson, who was stood just ten feet away from the blast in the Tavern in the Town when a device exploded at 8.27pm on this night in 1974.
Here Les explains how the blast divided his family, with his Irish uncle too ashamed to visit him after he was injured.
Lawyers representing the Birmingham pub bombings families are continuing to push for Hillsborough-style funding for the forthcoming inquest.
Families of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings have one request for funding granted just days before the first legal proceedings.
Diane Abbott, the Shadow Home Secretary, and Richard Burgon, the Shadow Justice Secretary, have written to the Government.