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Workers Revolutionary Party scandal and split (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the expulsion of leader Gerry Healy from the Workers Revolutionary Party for sexual abuse against female members, and on the split in the party with members including Vanessa Redgrave and Corin...
Channel fixed link schemes (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the last day for the submission of schemes to construct a Channel crossing fixed link between England and France, and the contest between consortia Euroroute, Channel Tunnel Group and Eurobridge,...
Ballot over NUM breakaway union (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the forthcoming ballot of mineworkers in Nottinghamshire and South Derbyshire to decide whether there should be a NUM breakaway union following the coal strike, when the union did not allow a...
NUM breakaway union ballot (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report at the end of voting by mineworkers in Nottinghamshire and South Derbyshire over whether there should be a NUM breakaway union. Includes Notts union official Neil Greatrex on his confidence of a...
Teachers dispute (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on Education Secretary Keith Joseph’s speech to the conference of the National Federation of Parent Teacher Associations (NFPTA), with dissatisfaction at the speech from his audience, and at the...
NUM vote to apologise to retrieve funds (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on a vote at the NUM executive conference over whether union leader, Arthur Scargill, should apologise to the courts in order to recover the union’s eight million pound assets seized during the...
Mirror Group dispute latest (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the latest in a series of disputes between newspaper proprietor Robert Maxwell and Fleet Street unions, as London printers of the Daily Mirror refuse to produce extra copies normally printed at a...
TGWU change rules to avoid breaking new laws (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the decision at today’s meeting of the TGWU executive council to change the union’s rules to avoid sequestration and receivership of funds for failing to comply with the government’s new...
Ballot result in favour of NUM breakaway union (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the ballot result by mineworkers in Nottinghamshire and South Derbyshire in favour of a breakaway union. Includes reaction from Notts leader Roy Lynk, who is expected to be the General Secretary...
NUM receivership and assets siezure (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the continuing impasse over the NUM receivership and seizure of its eight million pound assets following the coal strike, to be discussed at the NUM executive conference today, with the question of...