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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:58 pm
A banner advertising "Irish Car Bomb" cocktails at a pub near the sites of two 1970s bombings in Bristol has been censored.
The Brass Pig pub on The Triangle put up the banner to promote its St Patrick's Day celebrations.
Local author and journalist Maurice Fells, who covered both attacks as a journalist, said it was "unbelievable" considering the area's history.
Pub officials said the advert was "wrong" and have now covered it over.
Bristol was bombed twice - in 1974 and 1978 - both on sites near to the pub.
The Brass Pig on The Triangle is less than half a mile from Park Street, which was bombed on 18 December 1974. That attack was blamed on a local terror group.
The Reading Eagle reported at the time that 20 people had been injured.
Ken Stradling, 90, chairman of Bristol Guild on Park Street, was part of a party working late and recalled the "tremendous noise" of the bomb exploding outside the shop next door.
"The whole shop window shattered and sent glass flying," he said.
