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Government plans to ban Troubles-related prosecutions will also halt investigations into mainland IRA attacks such as the Birmingham pub bombings, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Families of victims have told of their fury after learning the plans would stretch to include IRA attacks on the mainland. Terrorist attacks on the UK mainland were not covered as part of the prisoners early release scheme in the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement. But the Mail on Sunday has learned the government is planning to extend an effective ban on prosecutions to include IRA atrocities carried out in Britain. Asked whether a proposed statute of limitations would apply to the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings and other terrorist attacks on the mainland, a government source confirmed: It would be all Troubles-related deaths. ....