Birmingham pub bombings inquest: anger at £200,000 PR campaign bill

Families of 21 victims say the total legal aid offered to their lawyers was just £350,000. Relatives of the 21 people killed in the Birmingham pub bombings have reacted furiously to new figures showing that the media campaign for the inquest got two-thirds as much public money as the total legal aid offered to the victims’ families. Figures obtained following a freedom of information request into the 1974 attacks reveal that £202,000 was paid to Crest Advisory, who dealt with t