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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Breakfast 20220222 06:36:00

over, and certainly here, sales have rebounded, back to 90% of pre pandemic levels. we have got tom working away busily here getting one of the latest orders ready. sarah, thank you very much indeed. already hard at work there. it is very busy down there this morning. it is a 6.36, it is tuesday morning, a very busy day today. it s exactly 50 years today since an ira bomb went off at aldershot garrison, killing seven people six civilians and an army chaplain. one of the victims was thelma bosley, who worked there as a cleaner. her sonjohn has been speaking to the bbc s steve humphrey about his memories of that terrible day and his belief that more should have been done to help those left behind. the aldershot bombing was the worst ever act of terrorism in this country. february the 22nd, 1972, and bbc correspondent michael burke reports on the tragic aftermath of the aldershot bomb. it was planned as revenge for londonderry s bloody

Transcripts for BBCNEWS Breakfast 20220222 06:37:00

sunday a month earlier. we were sitting there and the late news was on. i recognised the building that mum was working in. it was the week beforejohn bosley s seventh birthday when a car packed with explosives blew up at the headquarters of the parachute brigade. smashed to pieces and curtains blowing in the wind and bits of cars littered about. i didn t twig or ask, and nobody told me. in fact, nobody did ever tell me what happened. so nobody sat down with you and said, there s very bad news. no. john s mum, thelma, was amongst five cleaners who were killed. a gardener and an army chaplain also died in the blast. we weren t the only ones that were left, you know, without their single mother. a friend of mine, who was eight at the time, lost his single mother, who was a very good friend of my mum s, and he received

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