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6 results found for '"County Durham"' in Keywords.
Consett steel works closure (1980)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the closure of the Consett steel works in County Durham after 146 years of production. Includes interviews with Terry Hodgson, Derwentside District Council; Douglas Vernon, Derwentside Ad Hoc...
BR closes Shildon works (1982)
- Genre
- News report
Report on British Rail job cuts including the closure of the engineering works at Shildon in County Durham. Includes interview with Harry Hammond, AUEW. Male reporter not identified.
County Durham miners gala (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the County Durham miners gala. Includes speeches by Yorkshire miners’ leader Arthur Scargill (on breakaway unions), and Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. Reporter not identified.
Planning inspector shot dead in Butsfield (1991)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Mary Wimpress reports on the police search of a house where a council official has been shot dead. Planning inspector Harry Collinson had gone to the illegally-built bungalow at Butsfield in County Durham to...
Two schools fail Ofsted report (1993)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Education Secretary John Patten about an Ofsted report on two schools that have been branded the worst in the UK, Brookside Special School in Derby and Crook Primary School in County Durham....
Tony Blair elected Labour Party leader - reaction in Sedgefield (1994)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Vox pop; Interview; Election coverage
Jim Proudfoot reports from the Trimdon Labour Club in the Sedgefield constituency on the election of Tony Blair as the new leader of the Labour Party and John Prescott as deputy leader. Includes excerpt from...