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14,859 results found for all records.
Sport for SportAid charity goes into liquidation (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Sport for SportAid Limited - the commercial arm of the SportAid charity - has gone into liquidation owing millions of pounds. SportAid organiser Simon Dring blames the postal strike but creditors have been...
Princess Diana on family values (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Princess Diana has been President of the charity, Barnardo’s for four years and speaking at the annual meeting in London she stresses the importance of traditional family values, a sentiment echoed by both...
Prince Charles on hurricane damage to trees (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales has been telling conservationists at the headquarters of the National Trust that there is a lot more work to be done to repair the damage caused in last October’s hurricane....
Carbon dating proves Turin Shroud medieval (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Carbon dating of the Turin Shroud has shown that it cannot have been the sheet in which the body of Christ was laid after crucifixion. Leader of the Oxford testing, Professor Teddy Hall revealed that it was...
IRA censorship - Parliamentary debate (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate
The British Government has banned IRA sympathisers - including legitimate political parties such as the Ulster Defence Association and Sinn Fein - from speaking on television or radio in Britain, and Sinn...
Conservative conference - Margaret Thatcher speech (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher’s speech closes the Conservative Party conference in Brighton. In it, she pledges her support for her Chancellor, Nigel Lawson and touches upon inflation, the SAS soldiers...
Piper Alpha raised from sea bed (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
The North Sea oil platform, Piper Alpha, which was sunk following an explosion which killed 167 men, has been raised from the sea bed. Grampian Police Chief Alistair Lynn says that they do not yet know how...
Uganda Airlines crash - 33 killed in Rome (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
A Uganda Airlines plane has crashed in Rome, killing more than thirty people. Dairy farmer Geoff Gait(?), his wife and their baby managed to escape relatively unharmed. They were on their way to Uganda to...
Piper Alpha disaster - Occidental compensation (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Following the explosion on the North Sea oil rig, Piper Alpha, which killed 167 men, Occidental Petroleum who own the rig and Disaster Legal who represent many of the families have agreed on an average...
Police drugs raid in Torquay (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Around 60 policemen and custom officers have been involved in a dramatic drugs swoop at Anstey’s Cove in Torquay which netted cannabis worth five million pounds. Detective Superintendent Don Taylor(?) of...