MORE than 150 people attended a memorial service to remember at least 160 victims of the Blitz bombing of a Liverpool air raid shelter 70 years ago.

More than half of those seeking refuge from the Luftwaffe bombardment in the Durning Road shelter in Edge Hill were killed in the early hours of November 29, 1940.

People who lost loved ones including mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers attended the moving ceremony at Kensington Primary School last night, singing hymns, saying prayers and listening to memories of what Winston Churchill described as “the single worst civilian incident of the war”.

Linda McNeely, whose father Reginald McIver, 84, lost his mother in the bombing, said the trauma of the experience meant he had only in recent years begun to speak of the tragedy.

She added: “He used to take a flask into his mother in the shelter but on that night they wouldn’t let him in because a tram had stopped nearby and everyone piled in.

“So he said to just pass the flask in to his mother – he didn’t see her alive again.”