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Sellafield contamination claim thrown out of court (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Graham Majin reports on a couple losing their High Court claim for damages against British Nuclear Fuels after the judge ruled the risk of contamination in their home near Sellafield was trivial. With...
Police action at poll tax riots (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Peter Plisner reports on the police action at a national rally in London against the poll tax (community charge) which turned into violent riots. Speakers are Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant...
Poll tax rally turns violent (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Peter Plisner reports on Tommy Sheridan from the All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation, organisers of the national rally in London against the poll tax (community charge), condemning the riots that happened...
Strangeways prison riots background (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Chris Roberts reports on the background to the Strangeways Prison riots. Speakers are Father Noel Proctor (riot broke out at end of his church service); George Elliott, Prison Officers Association; worried...
Political mudslinging over poll tax riots (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Parliamentary debate
Kevin Murphy reports from Westminster on the war of words over the Home Secretary’s claims some Labour MPs helped incite the violence at the national rally against the poll tax (community charge) in...
Woman murdered in Brixton (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Oni Bhattacharya reports on the police investigation into the murder of a Mauritian-born woman, Jugeniken(?) Coopen(?), in Brixton. Includes Detective Superintendent John Bassett on the investigation which...
Doctor struck off for buying kidneys (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
James Matthews reports on millionaire Harley Street doctor Raymond Crockett being struck off for paying people to donate kidneys. Includes Raymond Crockett giving a statement outside the GMC. 2 surgeons...
Tories attack Labour over local taxes (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Elena Curti reports on the Conservative Party efforts to minimise losses to the Labour Party in the local elections by claiming Tory-run councils are charging lower poll tax (community charge). Includes...
Strangeways Prison siege (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Report on the ongoing siege of Strangeways Prison in Manchester which began due to inmates’ treatment by the authorities. 46-year-old David White, awaiting trial for sex offences, was confirmed as dead...
British woman murdered in Cherbourg (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the murder of British woman 24-year-old Alison Dutton in Cherbourg, France where she worked at an export firm. She was stabbed 17 times and was found by her French fiance. Her employer Paul Cutler...