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A CONSERVATIVE councillor has branded a former newspaper editor’s comments “sick” and “disgusting”. Roy Greenslade, who has a home in Brighton and previously edited the Daily Mirror, announced he believed the IRA bombings were “justified” in an article for the March edition of the British Journalism review. In the early hours of October 12, 1984, an IRA bomb was detonated at The Grand hotel on Brighton seafront during the Conservative Party’s conference, killing five and injuring dozens of others.
Five people were killed in the IRA blast Conservative councillor for Hangleton and Knoll, Dawn Barnett, who remembers the horrific day well, said she is disgusted with Mr Greenslade’s comments.
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