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Buckingham Palace was IRA target
Newly released files show that a raid on a north London flat used as an IRA bomb factory in the 1970s yielded a list with a huge number of names and addresses.
It included high-profile visitor attractions in London such as the British Museum, Madame Tussauds, the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery, now Tate Britain.
Also listed are the Queen's Gallery in Buckingham Palace, University College London, the Stock Exchange, Brixton Prison in south London and Wormwood Scrubs Prison in west London.
Detectives found evidence the terrorists were also considering less high-profile targets, including several power stations, aerodromes, shooting ranges, water pumping stations and sewage works.
Previously kept secret, the list has been made public by the National Archives. It also reveals that officers found a newspaper cutting listing the people who attended a memorial service for an ex-commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
A large amount of material has not been made public. Among the excluded sections are 23 pages listing "MPs, Lords and other civilian personnel", police officers and police premises and 35 pages listing named military personnel.
Tributes have been paid to a schoolgirl who died after slipping in her high heels and falling under a train while waving goodbye to her friends.
