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Funeral of British soldier murdered by IRA mob (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Margaret Shiels reports from the burial of British soldier, Corporal Derek Wood, in South London, who was murdered during an IRA funeral procession after driving into it accidentally with his colleague David...
Young woman stabbed to death on train (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Jo Withers reports on the murder of 26-year-old Deborah Linsey, who was brutally knifed to death on a London commuter train. A police spokesman says she got onto the only carriage with separate compartments...
US presidential candidates do battle in Michigan (1988)
- Genre
- Election coverage; Interview; News report; Speech
Andrew Manderstam reports on the US Presidential candidate race, where Democratic Party favourite Michael Dukakis has lost out in Michigan to black candidate Jesse Jackson. Includes excerpt of Jackson...
Boy suffering from genetic brain disease (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Nicky Broyd reports on the story of Peter Hynes, a Harlow schoolboy suffering from a rare genetic brain disease. Peter took a trip to America to meet doctors who are working towards a cure for his illness....
Amanda Hopkinson murder appeal (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Police in Kent hunting the killer of seventeen-year-old Amanda Hopkinson say they want to talk to anyone who saw her in Bexleyheath just hours before she died. She was found just before midnight on...
Archbishop Robert Runcie at the annual Youth Pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
James Bays reporting from the annual Youth Pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral. Interviews Archbishop Robert Runcie on the question and answer sessions he has conducted with teenagers, this year on the theme...
Alpine school trip deaths (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Denise O’Callaghan reporting on the return by coach to Altwood School, Maidenhead of the surviving schoolchildren following the deaths of four of the party on an Alpine holiday near Salzburg, Austria....
Freemasonic corruption in police force denied (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Peter Imbert denies claims of freemason corruption in recruitment to the force’s top jobs. Michael O’Neill reporting.
Shirley Banks’s body discovered (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Richard Banks speaking on HTV, following the discovery of his wife Shirley’s body in the Quantock Hills, Somerset, 6 months after she disappeared. Clayre Gribben reporting that detectives investigating the...
Kuwaiti Airlines hijacking (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Judith Silcock, on her joy at daughter Sue being set free, and her concern for Sue’s friend Mark Appleby who is still being held following the hijacking of a Kuawiti airlines jet in Iran and release of...