Firebomb scare for Welsh Secretary's family; RETRO REPORT July, 1980 How we covered...(Features) From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: July 18, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Edited by Tony Woolway

A FIREBOMB was slipped into the ground-floor bedroomof the 16-year-old

son of the Secretary of State for Wales as he lay sleeping in the family's home near Abergavenny.

The device did not go off, and was removed by Army bomb disposal experts, while Mr Nicholas Edwards' three children and his mother-in-law waited in a police car nearby.

An hour earlier police in Cardiff discovered a firebomb on the window led...