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8 results found for '"John Austin-Walker"' in Contributors.
Greenwich vote to set rates (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on the Greenwich Council committee meeting and vote over whether to set a rate (local tax level) following Government rate-capping legislation with some Labour councillors voting with Conservative...
Labour councils need extra cash (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the row at a conference between Roy Hattersley, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and London council leaders over councils’ need for extra finance. Speeches by Hattersley and Tony Dykes, Leader...
Labour success in Woolwich in general elections (1992)
- Genre
- Election coverage; Interview; News report
Report on the Labour Party success in the general elections as the gap was closed on Conservative Party MP Peter Bottomley and they overturned the last two SDP MP’s in Britain as John Austin Walker beat...
Oxleas wood saved from road (1993)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Ian Fenn reports on the victory of protesters at Oxleas Wood in south east London to prevent a road being built through it and the celebration rally in the woods after the Government’s decision. Including...
Royal Marsden to close? (1995)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Lizzie Knight reports on uproar over Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley’s plans to re-organise London’s hospitals, which is threatening her career as John Gorst MP is mounting a parliamentary challenge....
London ambulance report (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with John Austin-Walker, Labour MP for Woolwich and a member of the House of Commons Select Committee, on a report into ambulance services in London; follows the case of schoolgirl Nasima Begum who...
Members’ interests (1995)
- Genre
- Interview; Discussion
Members’ Interests, presented by Graham Leach on Easter Sunday. Discussion on parliamentary issues including education, health service; Margaret Thatcher and John Major’s Conservative governments; views...
Protests against Edgware Hospital closure (1995)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Niki Cardwell reports on the elderly protesters outside Edgware Hospital which is threatened with closure under Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley’s plans, they say it is difficult to travel to another...