Margaret Thatcher survived an IRA bomb, which shredded her bathroom barely two
minutes after she had left it.
The bomb detonated at 2:54 a.m on 12 October. Thatcher was still
awake at the time, working on her conference speech for the next day in her
suite. It badly damaged her bathroom but left her sitting room and bedroom
unscathed.
Thatcher and her husband Denis escaped injury.
Thatcher changed her
clothes, and then was escorted by the security guards to Brighton police
station. She and her husband were then taken to Sussex Police Headquarters at
Lewes, where they stayed for the rest of the night.
As she left the police station she gave an impromptu interview to
the BBC's John Cole at around 4:00 a.m., where she said the conference would go
on as usual.
Thatcher went from the
conference to visit the injured at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.
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