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10 results found for '"Kirby"' in Keywords.
Bird Eye decision to close Liverpool plant (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Labour MP Robert Kilroy-Silk talks about the decision of Birds Eye to close its plant in Kirby, Liverpool. He claims it would be a catastrophe to the town of Kirby, but also speculates that the company may...
Eddie Loyden on BL and Birds Eye job losses (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Eddie Loyden MP on the closures of British Leyland and Birds Eye plants on Merseyside. He says this could mean ten thousand people out of work in the Liverpool area.
Kirby factory rescue plan (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with Robert Maxwell on his plans to save the Kirby Engineering factory if certain conditions are met. Male interviewer not identified.
Duke of Edinburgh’s comments on China (1986)
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- News report; Interview
During the recent royal visit to China, the Duke of Edinburgh is said to have told British student Simon Kirby that Peking was ghastly, and to have made a lighthearted remark about slitty eyes. Royal Press...
Zeebrugge inquest verdict (1987)
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- Interview; News report
Report on verdict of an inquest (08/10/87) into the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; reports on summing up of coroner, Richard Sturt; includes interview...
Herald of Free Enterprise - Seamen charged (1989)
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- Interview
Lynne Mennie interviews John Newman, leader of NUMAST, who says his members are being made scapegoats for the Zeebrugge tragedy following the decision to prosecute three ferrymen for manslaughter relating to...
Herald of Free Enterprise - P & O charged (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Eve Conway interviews Maurice de Rohan, chairman of the Herald of Free Enterprise Families Association, on the announcement that the P & O shipping company is being prosecuted for manslaughter over the...
James Bulger funeral (1993)
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- News report; Speech; Vox pop
James Bays reporting on the funeral at the Sacred Heart Church in Kirby of 2-year-old James Bulger, who disappeared while out shopping with his mother, his body was found 15 days ago by a railway track....
James Bulger funeral (1993)
- Genre
- Speech
Extract from the address given by Father Michael O’Connell at the Sacred Heart Church in Kirby during the funeral of 2-year-old James Bulger, who disappeared while shopping with his mother, his body was...
Roger Kirby, leading urologist, on Barts merger (1994)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Roger Kirby, one of the world’s leading urologists, who is quitting his consultant’s post at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts) in London because uncertainty over its future is hampering...