A weekly newspaper has remembered the two child victims of terrorist bombings on its patch 30 years after their deaths.

The Warrington Guardian has paid tribute to three-year-old Johnathan Ball and 12-year-old Tim Parry, who died as the result of a Provisional IRA bomb on 20 March 1993.

Bronwen Vickers, a 32-year-old mother-of-two, was among 54 injured in the blast and haf to have her leg amputated.

She died from cancer the following year and believed the disease, which she had previously beaten eight years earlier, had returned due to the shock she suffered from the attack.

In remembering the tragedy, the Guardian has examined how the incident and the reaction of people in Warrington helped to “forge a path to peace” in the Northern Ireland peace process.

The Newsquest-owned weekly ran the edition on Thursday, pictured below.

Editor Richard Duggan, who is also Newsquest’s regional editor for the North-West of England, told HTFP on Thursday: “Even thirty years on, the Warrington bombing remains engrained in the hearts and minds of the residents of this town. Everyone alive then will remember where they were when they heard.

“Everyone will know someone who was in town. Everyone will have had an anxious moment waiting for their loved one to get in touch on the day.

“Everyone will have shed tears over the loss of Tim Parry and Johnathan Ball and later Bronwen Vickers. It is hard to think this was 30 years ago. But those events changed Warrington forever and left scars for a generation.

“In this week’s Warrington Guardian, we look back on those events of 30 years by speaking to the people there, from the parents of Tim Parry, Colin and Wendy to Harriet who was just days old and on her first trip out of the house when her mum Bronwen Vickers was hit by the bomb, losing her leg – she died a year later.

“But as former Prime Minister Tony Blair told us this week, the events of Warrington did play a part in the Good Friday peace process which followed later in the 90s.

“The Peace Foundation set up in memory of the two boys continues its vital work today. And this year, it will be the Warrington Guardian’s charity of the year.

“Dozens of victims of the Manchester Arena bombings have been supported by programmes run from the Great Sankey-based charity.

“Monday will see Bridge Street filled again, this time for the 30th anniversary of the attacks. When it falls silent at 12.20pm, as it has done every year since 1993, it will have its usual impact on Warrington.”