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Philip Geddes was killed an explosion at Harrods in London nearly four decades ago to the day. The promising journalist, then employed by the Daily Express, died aged 24. Having attended Barrow Grammar School he had left the Furness town to study at Oxford where he was a contemporary of future prime minister Theresa May and then joined the London Evening Standard. The young journalist was nearby when orders were made for the famous Knightsbridge store to be evacuated on December 17 1983. Racing towards the story, he went to the department store to investigate only to be killed a bomb planted the paramilitary group at the height of the Troubles.