John Grieve
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 20 years ago |
| Date of birth | June 14,1924 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Born | Glasgow |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | January 21,2003 |
| Died | Glasgow |
| United Kingdom | |
| Genres | Folk |
| Albums | Highland Voyage |
| Simple Fruits | |
| Job | Actor |
| Engineer | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 525625 |
John Grieve Life story
John Grieve was a Scottish actor, best known as the engineer Macphail in the 1960s BBC adaptation of Neil Munro's Para Handy stories, Para Handy - Master Mariner. Born in Maryhill, Glasgow, Grieve attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, before joining the Citizens Theatre in 1951.
135-year-old message in a bottle found under floorboards
... " The note was signed and dated by two male workers and read: " James Ritchie and John Grieve laid this floor, but they did not drink the whisky...
Spotlight IRA plan to hit south east England shows the power supply
... John Grieve, took over Scotland Yard anti-terrorist unit on the day of the Canary Wharf bomb, told spotlight that Crawley and the other IRA bombers were the A-team ...
Spotlight IRA plan to hit south east England shows the power supply
IRA bombers targeted London's Docklands at Canary Wharf in February 1996
planned The Ira to Knock Out claimed the Power Supply to The South -East of England in the last years of his bombing campaign, a former insider.
"Details" revealed in the last episode of the BBC Series spotlight on the difficulties: A Secret History .
insiders describe a power struggle between The Ira and British intelligence.
When The British government refused to admit Sinn Féin was bombed to Peace Talks in the middle of the 1990s, Canary Wharf .
Two People were killed and damage was estimated at £150m in The Attack in February 1996.
In June of the same year, The Ira exploded, as was reported, the largest bomb planted in the UK since the second World War .
More Than 200 people were injured caused by the Explosion in Manchester and significant damage to the infrastructure.
The last program in the ground-breaking BBC Series , presented by Darragh Macintyre , includes first-hand accounts of The Campaign in the UK to The Ira cease-fire temporarily abandoned in 1996.
But the program shows how to use the key IRA bombers have been caught or killed, after extensive surveillance operations by The British police and Mi5 .
John Crawley , was detained shortly before the bombing of the London Power Supply could.the Former US Marine John Crawley , the arrested already has been smuggling weapons from America for The Ira , caught shortly before the bombing of the London Power Supply could.
"We're going to Knock Out he tells the Power Supply of The South -East of England ", the program.
"There are other operations like, but we were caught before we could do it. "
John Grieve , took over Scotland Yard anti-terrorist unit on The Day of the Canary Wharf bomb, told spotlight that Crawley and The Other IRA bombers were "the A-team".
"you were absolutely excellent, And One of them, John Crawley , ex-US Marine demolition specialist, the summit kind of people was for you.
"He was the embodiment of cunning, skills, experience, the kind of people you stand against us. "
John Grieve of Scotland Yard 's anti-terrorist unit took over shows on The Day of the Canary Wharf bombBut, Mr. Crawley, that The Ira was stretched by the bombing campaign by the time he was arrested in 1996.
"I asked me to kill why choose us, because we had men tooled up and everything," he says.
"they knew where we were going and not to know that day, I why you just take us, because coffins are Coming Back on the ferry would be a nice message to someone else to find.
"And you don't believe me, it was a lot of people by walking their Hands Up to England . "
The Ira was also broadcast targeted Manchester shopping centre, 1996The last episode on Tuesday, 22. October, on Bbc One NI and Bbc Four on 20. 30 BST.
Will be after this broadcast, a program view on the creation of the Series available to view on Bbc Iplayer .
a light on The problems Behind The Scenes Will be shown on Thursday, 24. October, on Bbc One NI at 21:00.
after the airing of the last episode of the Series - presented by Mandy McAuley, Jennifer O'leary and Darragh Macintyre - Will be available as a box set for up to one year on Bbc Iplayer .
a spotlight on trouble: A Secret History can be viewed on Bbc Iplayer
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Source of news: bbc.com
