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SLD Conference (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Elena Curti reports on Paddy Ashdown’s first major speech as leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats, at the party conference in Blackpool. Includes speeches/interviews by/with Paddy Ashdown; Cyril...
Jo Grimond on SLD (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Richard Bestic reports on a speech by former Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond, at the Social and Liberal Democrats (SLD) conference in Blackpool.
Walleed Al-Humaidh kidnap (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Nicky Broyd reports on the abduction (19/09/88) and freeing of a Kuwaiti millionaire, Walleed Al-Humaidh, from a house in North London. Includes excerpts from press conference with statement by Walleed...
Guinness trial (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
John Alcock reports on the trial of former Guinness chief executive, Ernest Saunders, one of six top businessmen who appeared before Bow Street magistrates in London (26/09/88) on charges relating to alleged...
Search for gunman in Essex village (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Paul Seagrove reports on a police search for a wounded gunman at large in the Essex village of Abridge, following a bungled raid on a nightclub in which the owner, David Blunt, was shot and seriously hurt....
Women Mean Business - Margaret Thatcher presents award (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher speaks at the Women Mean Business awards in London. Award-winner, Gillian Harwood, who runs Omnibus Workspace Limited, does not know when she will have time to take her...
Piper Alpha disaster - Petrie report (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Following the Piper Alpha disaster in which an explosion on a North Sea oil platform killed 167 people, a report from the Department of Energy’s Director of Safety, Jim Petrie, has prompted different...
Margaret Thatcher visits RUC training centre (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher has visited Northern Ireland and spoken at a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) training centre on the outskirts of Belfast. She spoke with people directly affected by...
SLD Conference - Paddy Ashdown speech (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
With his first major speech as leader of the SLD, Paddy Ashdown closes his party conference in Blackpool. He tells the delegates that he envisages that the SLD will overtake Labour, outlines his vision for...
Death on the Rock witness - Carmen Proetta testimony (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Carmen Proetta was witness to the deaths of three IRA terrorists - Danny McCann, Sean Savage and Mairead Farrell â who were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS soldiers. In the television documentary, Death...