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British Coal and reaction to the 6-day week (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the Welsh miners and reaction to the 6-day week and to British Coal’s plan to consider non-NUM miners for the running of the Margam pit. NUM President Arthur Scargill says this would be a bloody...
Neil Greatrex on UDM working Margam pit if NUM won’t (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Neil Greatrex, leader of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, on National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) President, Arthur Scargill’s claim that if other unions take over at Margam pit, there will be violence....
End of the Welsh miners’ conference and retirement of Mick McGahey (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report looking back at the week’s conference of Welsh miners: division over the 6-day week, ballots on strike action; the retirement of NUM Vice-President Mick McGahey. McGahey speaks about the...
Colin Brown on BT service levels (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Colin Brown, BT’s Director of Corporate Planning, on how they are doing all they can to provide a modern telephone service. He talks about prices, service, the modernisation programme, the...
Bob Reid on British Rail job cuts and the future (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with British Rail Chairman, Robert (Bob) Basil Reid on job cuts and the future. He talks about where the cuts will be, why they are happening, whether queues will increase because of the cuts, the...
Funeral march for IRA men (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Special; Speech
Report on the illegal funeral march in Andersonstown to comemorate the IRA men who died in the hunger strike six years ago and the eight IRA men killed in the SAS shoot out in Loughgall. Includes actuality...
Sinn Fein councillor shot (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the shooting of Alex Maskey, Sinn Fein councillor, including an eyewitness account and response from Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein leader, on the possibility of collusion between security forces and the...
UDR man shot next to playground (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with an eyewitness on the shooting of an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) man next to a childrenâs playground which the gunman seemed to have used as cover. Interviewer not identified.
Jim Nicholson family shooting (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the shooting and attempted murder of Irish unionist politician Jim Nicholsonâs family, includes interview with Jim Nicholson. Male reporter not identified.
Peter Robinson and Frank Miller on Unionist proposals (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Peter Robinson, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP and Frank Miller, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) General Secretary, on the proposal for a Unionist convention panel commission and how they are against the...