BBC News coverage revealed the extent of the damage to the front of the building from the bomb.

On Sunday, 4th March, 2001 the Real IRA detonated a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre in the Shepherd's Bush area of West London at 0030GMT. Officers were carrying out a controlled explosion on the bomb with a bomb-disposal robot when it went off yards from the front door of BBC Television Centre, sending the robot reeling. Staff had already been evacuated after police received a coded warning. A London Underground worker suffered deep cuts and some damage was caused to the front of the BBC building. Image File history File links BBC_TV_Centre_IRA_Bomb_Damage. ... Image File history File links BBC_TV_Centre_IRA_Bomb_Damage. ... The current BBC News logo BBC News and Current Affairs is a major arm of the BBC responsible for the corporations newsgathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. ... Categories: Wikipedia cleanup | Organization stubs | Terrorist organizations in Northern Ireland | Rebellion ... Car bomb in Iraq, made from a number of concealed artillery shells in the back of a pickup truck. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... Shepherds Bush is a district of West London in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, situated 4. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... A controlled explosion is used as a method for detonating or disabling a suspected device. ... BBC Television Centre (sometimes abbreviated TVC or TC) in London is home to much of BBC television output and, since 1998, almost all of the corporations national TV and radio news output by BBC News. ... This article is about the British underground transport system. ...

As the explosion happened just after midnight some reports of the incident say that it happened on the 3rd March when in fact it was the 4th March.

In November 2001, three men; Noel Maguire, Robert Hulme and his brother Aiden Hulme were arrested in connection with three bomb attacks in the U.K. The first being outside the BBC on 4th March 2001 the second in Ealing Broadway on 3rd August 2001 (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing) and the third in Birmingham on 3rd November 2001. They were all later convicted at the Old Bailey on the 8th April, 2003. Robert Hulme and Aiden Hulme were each jailed for 20 years. Noel Maguire, who the judge said played "a major part in the bombing conspiracy", was sentenced to 22 years. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the European Union. ... Ealing is a place in the London Borough of Ealing. ... On 3rd August 2001 the real IRA detonated a car bomb containing 45kg of explosives in Ealing Broadway, West London, injuring seven people. ... The city from above Centenary Square. ... The Old Bailey by Mountford (1907) The Central Criminal Court, commonly known as The Old Bailey (a bailey being part of a castle), is a Crown Court (criminal high court) in London, dealing with major criminal cases in the UK. It stands on the site of the mediaeval Newgate Gaol...

Two other men, James McCormack, of County Louth, and John Hannan, of Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, had already admitted the charge at an earlier hearing. James McCormack, who played the most serious part of the five, the judge said, was jailed for 22 years. John Hannan, who was 17 at the time of the incidents, was given 16 years detention. Statistics Province: Leinster County Town: Dundalk Code: LH Area: 820 km² Population (2006) 110,894 Website: www. ... Newtownbutler is a small village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Enniskillen Area: 1,691 km² Population (est. ...

External links

• Report on the incident by the BBC
• Second report on the incident by the BBC
• Report on the Real IRA bombers being jailed