Jimmy Cricket has recalled the time that a pantomime in which he was starring went ahead despite the fact that a bomb had been planted next to the theatre.
The famous entertainer was appearing in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Grand Opera Theatre in Belfast at the time.
Looking back at the incident in 1992, Jimmy told the Lancashire Evening Post in his latest column for the Preston-based newspaper: “With the help of great architects and engineers, we got the theatre ready just in time for the pantomime, even though we had to get ready and change in portakabins!
“The fact the people from Northern Ireland didn’t want the terrorists to succeed meant we did sellout business all the way through.”
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