It was 40 years ago on Saturday that a bomb planted by the IRA's Patrick Magee exploded at The Grand hotel.

The seafront filled with smoke and debris and the heroic emergency services arrived, spending days picking through the rubble and saving whoever they could. 

Among the first on the scene as the world waited with bated breath was the Argus reporting team and photographers, capturing that tragic moment in history.

Subscribe to read our series of featuresThe bomb ripped through the hotel's structure, killing five people and injuring dozens more.

The prime minister Margaret Thatcher survived and insisted the Conservative Party that the IRA had targeted continue its conference at the Brighton Centre next door.

This week in a series of features we have been speaking to the reporters and photographers who were there as well as running exclusive features from an author who has spoken to more people as they remember the horrific moment that the world of politics and the debate over Northern Ireland changed forever.

In one feature Reporter Ramy Abou-Setta spoke to Jon Buss, who was crime reporter for what was then the Evening Argus, about the night he was called to report on the Brighton bomb. 

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