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Unexploded bomb destroyed in Docklands (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Army engineers who detonated a huge unexploded wartime bomb in East London last night are warning that the Docklands building boom could unearth many more such relics of the Blitz. Bomb disposal men...
Kenneth Baker on the new English language learning syllabus (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
A report has been released recommending what books children should read in the classroom. It also covers how English should be taught in general. It warns that, although standard English should be...
Disappearance of schoolgirl Anna Humphries (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Police have revealed that the man they want to question about the disappearance of schoolgirl Anna Humphries replaced his car windscreen on the night she vanished. Following yesterday’s reconstruction of...
Nazi war criminals escaped prosecution (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Leading post-war politicians and civil servants are being accused of a massive cover up which allowed some of the most vicious members of Hitler’s SS to escape prosecution in Britain. The war criminals...
Palestinian state proclaimed (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Dan Meridor, a leading member of Israel’s right-wing Likud party, says the Palestinian declaration of an independent state within the Israeli-occupied territories represents no new development in the...
Loyalist arms cache found in Armagh (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Police in Northern Ireland have discovered a massive arms cache thought to be used by loyalist groups. The weapons haul was uncovered in Markethill, Armagh and, according to Northern Ireland Secretary...
Police hunt abduction suspect on the continent (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Police believe the man they want to question about the disappearance of schoolgirl Anna Humphries, David Evans, may have fled to the continent. Police know that Evans had his passport and two hundred pounds...
Campaign for British Army to pull out of Northern Ireland (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Twenty years after British troops were first sent to Ulster, former maverick MP Bernadette Devlin McAliskey has been launching a campaign to have the Army pulled out. She has recently been on a nationwide...
Miss World contest to be axed from ITV (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
Report on Thames Television’s decision to drop coverage of the Miss World pageant, after taking it over from the BBC eight years ago. Julia Morley, the organiser of the competition, condemns the move,...
GCHQ employees sacked for refusing to give up union membership (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Today is the last day of work for the first four people sacked from the Government’s GCHQ at Cheltenham. They have been dismissed for refusing to give up their union membership, after the Government...