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Birmingham Six appeal (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Tim Crook reports on hopes for justice as the case of the Birmingham Six is sent to the Court of Appeal. Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Joseph (Paddy Joe) Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William (Billy)...
Birmingham Six appeal-Chris Mullin interview (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Tim Crook reports from the Old Bailey on the case at the Court of Appeal of the Birmingham Six: Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Joseph (Paddy Joe) Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William (Billy) Power, John...
Pathe report on end of sweet rationing (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Special
British Pathe news report from Spring 1949 on the end of sweet rationing in the UK.
Nurses’ walkout (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Gareth Furby reports on a walkout by NHS nursing staff in a dispute over a proposed three percent pay rise and revised pay structure. Includes interviews with Rodney Bickerstaffe, NUPE; Dr John Marks, BMA;...
Nurses’ walkout - Parliament protest (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Richard Bestic reports from Westminster on protests relating to the dispute involving nurses and other NHS staff over NHS funding and wages. Includes press interviews with protesting nurse, Anne(?) Holmes;...
Clause 28 - Protests in Parliament (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Report on a parliamentary debate on the NHS nurses’ dispute over funding and wages. Also includes reports on abseiling lesbians in the House of Lords over the Clause 28 bill on promoting homosexuality;...
NACODS strike halts coal production (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Ben Brown reports on a stoppage in Britain’s coalfields following a twenty-four-hour walkout by members of the pit deputies’ union, National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers...
Maudsley nurses on strike (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Bruce Pavey interviews nurses at the Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill, Camberwell, where staff have become the first in London to go on strike. Members of the health union COHSE have started a...
Robert Peel blue plaque unveiled (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Alec(?) Goulden reports on the unveiling, by Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, of a blue plaque in London at the former home of Sir Robert Peel, former Prime Minister and founder of the Metropolitan Police....
Prince Andrew launches Youth in the Air scheme (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Dickie Arbiter reports on a new aeronautical award scheme launched by Prince Andrew (Duke of York), President of the Royal Aero Club. The Youth in the Air scheme aims at encouraging youngsters to take an...