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Neil Kinnock and new Labour policies (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
The Labour Party’s National Executive is now discussing its most difficult policy review: how the party will deal with defence and nuclear weapons. The Labour leadership wants to drop its commitment to...
Simon Hayward to be released early (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
British man, Simon Hayward is to be released early from a Swedish prison after serving half of a five-year sentence for drug smuggling. Unidentified male speaker (wrongly? identified in the original...
Scotland Yard launches new policing measures (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Scotland Yard is considering a scheme to launch an alternative civic volunteer force in London. It would be an alternative to the New York vigilante Guardian Angels, who patrolled the subway earlier in...
US bomber explodes over Oxfordshire homes (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Terrified villagers flooded police with calls during the night when the sky above a US nuclear base lit up with flames. A fireball erupted above Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire when an American F1-11 bomber...
Merlyn Rees on MI5 dirty tricks campaign (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Former Home Secretary, Merlyn Rees admits MI5 did wage a dirty tricks campaign against the last Labour government. New allegations of security service involvement in a plan to undermine the Wilson...
George Bush prepared for invasion of Panama (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Ten thousand American troops are on standby as President George Bush considers sending them in to Panama to overthrow dictator General Noriega. The US Government says the opposition would have won last...
US bomber explodes over Oxfordshire homes (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
A retired air commodore is claiming that last night’s fireball from a US Air Force jet could have caused another Hiroshima over southern England. The F1-11 nuclear bomber got into trouble over the Upper...
Chambermaid sacked, and possibly deported (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
A chambermaid who branded the Duchess of Argyll a boozy liar has been found guilty of dishonestly running up a five-and-a-half thousand pound telephone bill. A jury rejected Samira Elaadouli’s claim...
Neil Kinnock on nuclear defence policy (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
In his first major speech since Labour’s National Executive backed his multilateral policy of negotiating away nuclear weapons, Neil Kinnock told his audience at the Welsh Labour Conference in Llandudno...
Inside an emergency control centre (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
An emergency control centre in South London has been opened to the media. The bunker, which is below a block of council flats near Crystal Palace, is intended to house up to 50 council and police...