The Balcombe Street siege was an incident involving members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and London's Metropolitan Police lasting from...
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Balcombe Street Gang was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit (ASU) (also known as the Balcombe Street Four or the Balcombe Street...
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restaurant. Imbert was the chief negotiator over the six days of the Balcombe Street Siege, and when the situation ended peacefully with no lives lost and...
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inconsistencies between an account Blair gave of his involvement in the Balcombe Street Siege on the night of 6 December 1975, and the recollections of others...
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the difference in outcomes between the Iranian Embassy siege and the 1975 Balcombe Street siege, in which the police negotiated the surrender of four Provisional...
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for his role in the Balcombe Street Siege in London in December 1975. Doherty is known for his role in the Balcombe Street Siege of December 1975, at...
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Crouch Hill (category Streets in the London Borough of Haringey)
by IRA members who were subsequently arrested at the end of the Balcombe Street Siege. Bishop, Patrick & Mallie, Eamonn (1987). The Provisional IRA. Corgi...
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He was involved in the successful negotiations to end the 1975 Balcombe Street siege and afterwards served with the Metropolitan Police's fraud squad...
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being admitted. Duggan and Doherty were apprehended following the Balcombe Street siege and charged with murdering McWhirter in addition to nine other victims...
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The threat of such an action ended the 1975 Balcombe Street siege, but the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege ended in a military assault and the deaths of...
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Oyster Bar bombing Walton's Restaurant bombing Drummuckavall ambush Balcombe Street siege Kingsmill massacre West Ham station attack Olympia bombing Store...
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three others were labelled the "Balcombe Street Gang" by news media after a five-day siege in the eponymous London Street. He and his co-accused were gaoled...
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an IRA unit based in London were arrested following the six-day Balcombe Street Siege. The IRA unit had been active in England since late 1974 carrying...
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of the Active Service Unit apprehended in December 1975 at the Balcombe Street Siege. Two of the Guildford Four were wrongfully charged in December 1974...
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the M62 coach bombing and several people were killed by the IRA's Balcombe Street Gang. One of the Old Bailey bombers Marian Price explained the IRA's...
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The Troubles (section Downing Street mortar attack)
England in 1974 and 1975 by Provisional IRA active service unit the Balcombe Street Gang. The British Government reinstated the ban against the UVF in...
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themselves for six days in a flat on Balcombe Street before they surrendered, an incident known as the Balcombe Street Siege. They were sentenced to thirty...
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"Balcombe Street gang's reign of terror". BBC News. 9 April 1999. Retrieved 14 October 2012. "BBC ON THIS DAY | 12 | 1975: Balcombe Street siege ends"...
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Marylebone (redirect from Queen Anne Street)
Town Hall was completed in 1920. Marylebone was the scene of the Balcombe Street siege in 1975, when Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorists held...
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Balcombe Street : the IRA Reign of Terror in London. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-85607-8. OCLC 869091705. 1975: Balcombe Street siege...
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unit who became known as the Balcombe Street Gang – whom police arrested in December 1975 after the Balcombe Street siege leading to their trial and conviction...
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16 months, on average. The CRW's first deployment was during the Balcombe Street siege. The Metropolitan Police had trapped a PIRA unit; it surrendered...
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was the work of the Balcombe Street Gang who also carried out high-profile bombings in Knightsbridge, Piccadilly, Oxford Street, Woolwich, and many other...
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London's Downing Street by British prime minister John Major and the Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. They delivered the Downing Street Declaration which...
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Balcombe may refer to: Balcombe, West Sussex, England Balcombe railway station Balcombe tunnel Balcombe Street Siege, IRA incident in London David Balcombe...
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suspects, who later became known as the Balcombe Street gang after they held a couple hostage in the Balcombe Street Siege in Marylebone. The London-based IRA...
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