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A city MP has urged the Government to rethink its decision not to hold a public inquiry into the Birmingham Pub Bombings.

Liam Byrne, MP for Hodge Hill and Solihull North, has written to security minister Dan Jarvis to protest the plan that the unsolved 1974 atrocity be dealt with by the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) rather than through a statutory public inquiry.

Mr Byrne echoed calls from victims' families for a judge-led statutory public inquiry into the bombings under the 1995 Inquiries Act.

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It's been more than 50 years since 21 innocent people were killed when bombers blew up the Mulberry Bush and Tavern pubs in the city cen

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