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divdiv class=story-body readability=41 span class=story-date#13; span class=date15 November 2013/span#13;span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time21:00 ET/span#13; #13;/span#13;#13; #13;#13;#13; #13; #13; #13; p class=introductionA call to reopen the investigation into the Birmingham pub bombings is being considered by the prime minister./p#13; pRelatives of some of the 21 people killed in the bombings have compiled a dossier of their case, which is being read by David Cameron./p#13; pForty years after the attack, the family of one of the victims, Maxine Hambleton, are campaigning for the case to be reopened./p#13; pA spokesperson for the prime minister confirmed he had received the report./p#13; span class=cross-head'A kind of limbo'/span#13; pThe bombings took place at two pubs - The Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town - on 21 November 1974./p#13; !-- Embedding the video player --#13;!-- This is the embedded player component --#13;#13;#13; #13; #13;#13;#13;#13;!-- wwrights check --#13;!-- Empty country is used on test environment --#13;#13;#13;#13;div class=videoInStoryC readability=1#13; div id=emp-24948476-96046 class=emp#13; #13; #13; noscript#13; div class=warning readability=1#13; img class=holding src=http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71121000/jpg/_71121331_birm_bomb_getty2.jpg alt=Birmingham bombing/pstrongPlease turn on JavaScript./strong Media requires JavaScript to play./p#13; /div#13; /noscript#13; #13; !-- embedding script --#13; #13; /div#13; !-- companion banner -- #13; #13; #13; #13; !-- END - companion banner --!-- caption --p class=captionTwenty-one people were killed when terrorists blew up two Birmingham pubs in 1974/p#13; !-- END - caption --#13; #13; #13;#13;/div#13;!-- end of the embedded player component --#13;#13;!-- Player embedded -- pMiss Hambleton, described as kind, full of life and funny by her family, had gone to the Tavern in the Town on the night of the attack, which left 182 people injured./p#13; pIt is still not known who was behind the bombings./p#13; pSix men from Northern Ireland, known as the Birmingham Six, who were convicted of the attack in 1975, were freed by the Court of Appeal in 1991, after their convictions were ruled unsafe./p#13; pNow the family of Miss Hambleton, who was 21 when she died, are working together with one of the Birmingham Six, Paddy Hill, to campaign for the case to be reopened./p#13; pIf [the police] did everything that was humanly possible, how come the perpetrators are still out there with their liberty? said Julie Hambleton, Maxine's sister./p#13; pIt's very very hard... I'm stuck in a kind of limbo, added her brother Brian. I've always had the sense that the people in power thought we would go away./p#13; p id=story_continues_1But we are still here and we won't go away. I will be fighting this until the day I die./p#13; pThe Hambletons have met Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson, who passed their dossier to David Cameron earlier this year. /p#13; pHe told the BBC: There's every reason there should be an investigation./p#13; pEvidence is also being a href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-18897766reviewed by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit/a. A previous police investigation closed in 1994, with no prosecutions./p#13; pMarcus Beale, assistant chief constable, said: We have been gathering together all the material from the investigations in 1974, the latter investigations in the late 80s and the further work that was done in the 90s by West Midlands Police./p#13; pWe'll go with reinvestigating if that's the right thing to do./p#13; ulli strongFor more on this story, watch Inside Out on Monday 18 November on BBC1 /stronga href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03j0pntor on BBC iPlayer/astrong./strong/li#13; /ul/div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center