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  • Increase in tourism to UK from Eastern Europe (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Vox pop

    Jason Kaye reports on an increase in tourists to the UK from Eastern Europe following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the old Soviet Union. A number of campsites have been created in London...

  • Row over new driving licences with photo (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    David Kermode reports on a row over the UK Government’s plans to include a photograph on the driving licence. Civil rights groups oppose the move claiming it’s the first step towards a national identity...

  • Campaign to keep the Three Graces in UK (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Peter Deeley reports on the campaign to save Antonio Canova’s Three Graces sculpture from being moved from the UK to the Getty Museum in California. Includes an interview with UK National Heritage...

  • Tuna wars - Cornish trawler warned over nets (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Marc de Leuw reports on the latest in the tuna wars – a dispute between the UK and Spanish governments over fishing rights. The Alice Louise, a Cornish trawler fishing for tuna in the Bay of Biscay, has...

  • Pregnant mother murdered by UVF (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Shane Glynn reports on the murder of pregnant mother Kathleen O’Hagan at Greencastle, near Omagh, County Tyrone, by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Includes reaction from Father John Ryder; Church of...

  • Bombs in Oxford blamed on animal rights extremists (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Charles Amponsah reports on two bomb attacks on shops in Oxford which the police believe may be the work of animal rights groups. No-one was hurt but a group known as the Animal Rights Militia has promised a...

  • Fred West wins court order (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    David Kermode reports on a temporary High Court order preventing the former solicitor of mass murder suspect Fred West selling his story. Mr Justice Lightman (Gavin Lightman) ordered Howard Ogden to hand...

  • Flooding in London - report from Holland Park (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    David Kermode reports from Holland Road, Kensington, London following torrential rain which has caused widespread flooding in and around the capital. Two people drowned – one in Enfield, the other on...

  • Woodstock 25th anniversary revival concert (1994)

    Genre
    Advertisement; Interview; News report

    Paul Woodley reports from New York on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Woodstock festival. As many as 200,000 people are gathering in a field about sixty miles away from the original Woodstock site for an...

  • 25th anniversary of British troops in Northern Ireland (1994)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Press conference

    Special report by Declan Curry on the events since 1969, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of British troops being sent to Northern Ireland initially to quell riots in Derry. Includes: archive report of the...