Article: Birmingham Post Weekend: PASTIMES: Carnage in the city centre; On the 30th anniversary of the IRA's attack on Birmingham Chris Upton looks back at the city pub bombings.(Features)

It was 30 years ago tomorrow. Ian Cropper was on the night shift, minding the switchboard at the Birmingham Post & Mail. The next morning's headlines had still to be written. Soon after 8.10pm he received a call from a man on a public telephone. 'The code word is Double X,' said the voice in an Irish accent. 'There is a bomb planted in the Rotunda and there is a bomb in New Street at the tax office.'

Six minutes after the call the headline had been written. 'Worse than Belfast!' it would read. One bomb had exploded in the Mulberry Bush, the pub at the foot of the ...

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