Bombs rock central London and four killed as trains collide near Brighton
This week in 1978, three explosions rocked London at the end of a weekend of international bombings which saw five other English cities attacked and explosions in Athens, Geneva, Paris and Jerusalem.
The London bombs went off near the British Museum and in a nearby basement parking area of the YMCA
Investigators suggested that the blasts were part of a terror campaign by the Irish Republican Army. But they said no group had asserted responsibility.
Also this week in 1978, four people were killed and seven seriously injured when two passenger trains from London crashed at Patcham, two miles north of Brighton.
A train from Victoria to Littlehampton ran into the rear of a Victoria to Brighton train.
The leading coach of the Littlehampton train was pushed into the rear carriage of the other train, crushing it flat.
More than 40 ambulances from all areas of the country ferried the injured to hospital in Brighton.
In other news, Don Revie, the former England manager, was banned from any further involvement in football for ten years by the Football Association after he was found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute.
The decision was taken by an FA commission who also fined Alan Ball, the Southampton and England player, £3000 for receiving “approaches and payments from a person as an inducement to leave his club and join another”.
And finally, a British soldier fighting with Rhodesian forces against black nationalist guerrillas was among 59 victims of the war in the space of 24 hours, the Military Command reported.
He was Lance-Corporal Maurice Taylor (30), a bachelor from Blackpool, a former paratrooper and Scots Guard.
A military communiqué said Taylor, one of several hundred foreigners who were fighting with Rhodesian forces, was killed in a clash with insurgents.