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Ozone layer conference (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Julie Sedgwick reports on an international conference on the ozone layer in London at which Britain pledged £5million towards an action programme. Includes interview with demonstrator (not identified)...
Chopper crash near school (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Gary Moran reports on the crash of a helicopter belonging to JCB near a school on the Derbyshire-Staffordshire border with one person killed. Includes eyewitness accounts from Ron Carpenter and Dury...
George Bush reneges on taxes (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference; Speech; Vox pop
Nick Peters reports on US President George H. W. Bush’s announcement yesterday that he is to break his fundamental campaign pledge of 1988- no new taxes, because of the budget deficit; and on...
Londons water supplies contaminated (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Environmental health officers who surveyed 25 London boroughs have reported water supplies are contaminated with weedkillers.They say there is no health risk. Graham Jukes, under secretary at the Institution...
German currencies merge (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
In three days time the East and West German currencies will merge. Vice-President of Deutsche Bank, Klaus Haussman, tells Catherine Field he is very optimistic about the success of the undertaking and...
Iranian earthquake rescue workers return to UK (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Julie Sedgwick interviews Sue Shirley and Brian Kirby, members of an international rescue team who’ve been helping victims of an Iranian earthquake as they returned to the UK at Heathrow Airport. They...
Gordon Brown on Rover sale sweeteners (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Labour Party trade and industry spokesman Gordon Brown says the Government and Nicholas Ridley in particular should apologise for wasting taxpayers money and Margaret Thatcher should come clean about her...
Animal welfare concerns over free trade in Europe (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
An animal welfare group is today organising a mass lobby of Parliament over the lifing of trade barriers in Europe in 1992. Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) fear the open market could mean even more...
NHS reform petition (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
A petition with a million signatures protesting at the reform of the NHS has been presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace. In a letter the SOS NHS campaign calls on her to withold her royal assent to...
Army security breach (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
The opposition is pressing the Government to make a statement about how the Ministry of Defence let a list, showing where army personnel could be found at summer camps, be allowed into the public domain...