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CBI reaction to GLC rate increase plan (1983)
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- Interview
John Trushan-Eve, Chairman of the CBI’s London Region Rates Committee, on the potentially adverse effects on business and employment of the planned Greater London Council budget rate increase. Female...
Council refuses Plessey contract - Apartheid link (1983)
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- Interview
Tower Hamlets councillor Cosmas Desmond on the council’s decision to refuse Plessey a contract to install a new telephone system at the Town Hall because of the company’s direct involvement with the...
Islington Council support for Greenham Common women (1983)
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- Interview
Maureen Leigh, Chairwoman of Labour-controlled Islington Council, on the support being offered by the council to the Greenham Common women peace camp protesters demonstrating outside Holloway Prison where...
Hackney Council may withhold rate precept in support of Roach family campaign (1983)
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- Interview
Unidentified Hackney Borough Council spokesman on the recommendation that the council withhold collection of the rate precept in support of the Roach family’s campaign for an independent inquiry into the...
Liberal victory at Bermondsey by-election (1983)
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- Interview
Adrian Slade, President of the London Liberal Party, on the victory of Liberal candidate Simon Hughes in the Bermondsey by-election over the Labour Party’s Peter Tatchell and rival right-wing Real...
Arthur Latham on Tatchell smear campaign (1983)
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- Interview
London Labour Party Chairman, Arthur Latham argues that the defeat of Labour candidate Peter Tatchell in the Bermondsey by-election was not a rejection by the electorate of the Labour Party and its politics...
GLC plans festival for Karl Marx 100th Anniversary (1983)
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- Interview
Barry Cavell, organiser of Karl Marx tours in London, on plans to launch a Greater London Council festival on the 100th anniversary of Marx’s death, with events including a trip around his favourite London...
Frank Allaun on right of reply to press (1983)
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- Interview
Labour MP, Frank Allaun on his parliamentary bill to give the right of reply to those misrepresented in the newspaper press. Male interviewer not identified.
CBI meets with Government to lower bills (1983)
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- Interview; News report
Report on leaders of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) meeting with the Government to appeal for energy bill cuts for industries which use electricity. Speakers are Industry Secretary, Patrick...
Falklands airfield proposals (1983)
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- Interview
Labour MP, Tam Dalyell on proposals for a new airfield in the Falkland Islands. Male interviewer not identified.