Church hit by blast reopens

LONDON The largest medieval church to have survived the Great Fire of London and two World Wars reopened yesterday, four years…

LONDON The largest medieval church to have survived the Great Fire of London and two World Wars reopened yesterday, four years after its roof was blown off by an IRA bomb. St Helen Bishops gate was only metres from the first City bomb attack at the Baltic Exchange in April 1992. A year later it was hit again by the second City blast.

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