TIMELINE - Worst bomb attacks in Britain

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(Reuters) - Police searched houses near the city of Glasgow in Scotland on Sunday after what they described as a terrorist attack on its airport that they linked to two failed car bombings in London.

Here is a chronology of some of the worst bomb attacks in Britain in the past 30 years.

February 1974 - Coach carrying soldiers and families in northern England is bombed by the IRA. Twelve people killed, 14 wounded.

October-November 1974 - Wave of IRA bombs in British pubs kills 28 people and wounds more than 200.

July 1982 - Two IRA bomb attacks on soldiers in London's royal parks kill 11 people and wound 50.

December 1983 - IRA bomb at London's Harrods department store kills six.

October 1984 - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's cabinet narrowly escapes IRA bomb which kills five people at a hotel in Brighton during the Conservative Party's annual conference.

December 1988 - A Pan Am Boeing 747 crashes on the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 aboard after a bomb on board explodes. Eleven people in Lockerbie are also killed.

September 1989 - Bomb at Royal Marines Music School in Deal, southeastern England, kills 11 and wounds 22.  Continued...

 
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