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Youngster in stolen car kills six (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
The grieving parents of a 14 year-old boy may face legal proceedings after their son took their car and crashed it, killing six people near Blackpool in a head-on collision. Selina Hanif(?)'s report includes...
Police racism (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Oni Bhattacharya reports on London’s Police Commissioner Sir Peter Imbert speaking to the West Indian Standing Conference on ending police racism. Includes interview with Imbert on changing attitudes and...
South African boxer causes controversy (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Southwark councillors have voted to ban the boxing match between Brian Mitchell from South Africa and Jimmy McDonnell from Camden due to their anti-apartheid policy but are now facing damages claims from...
British Steel floats next month (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
2 linked clips on the stock market flotation of British Steel next month as a pathfinder prospectus for the sale is launched.1. Interview with British Steel Chairman Sir Robert Scholey who looks to the...
IRA terrorists jailed (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Gareth Furby reports from Winchester on the 25 year sentences given to 3 Irish terrorists Martina Shanahan, Finbar Cullen and John McCann who plotted to murder Ulster Secretary Tom King and 17 other...
Norman Fowler discusses crackdown on dole cheats (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Employment Secretary Norman Fowler on the success of the campaign against dole fraud. He says it doesn’t mean the government’s resting on its laurels, in fact, he warns of an even greater vigilance to...
Runaway train crash on Staples Corner (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Eve Conway reports on this morning’s runaway train drama at Staples Corner in North London. It’s was thought that vandals may have released the brakes of the two engines, which crashed down from a...
British Rail privatisation proposal (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Eve Conway reports on a speech by Transport Secretary Paul Channon to the Centre for Policy Studies, a Tory think tank, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London on options for privatisation of...
Gordon Wilson on the bombers who killed his daughter (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Gordon Wilson, whose daughter, Marie, was killed in the Enniskillen Remembrance day IRA bombing in 1987, as he receives the Man of the Year award. He says he forgives the bombers and comments...
Prince of Wales: A Vision of Britain (1988)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview; Vox pop
Excerpts from a television programme entitled HRH The Prince of Wales: A Vision of Britain, presented by Prince Charles, expressing his views on architecture.