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Newsflash on resignation of Chancellor Nigel Lawson (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; News bulletin; Advertisement; Trailer
LBC Crown FM newsflash read by Richard Dallyn announcing Chancellor Nigel Lawson has resigned. Includes on-the-spot report by Ed Boyle and interview with Ken Livingstone MP. Also includes news bulletin read...
Edwina Currie on new book Life Lines (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Margaret Shiels reports on the publication of a book entitled Life Lines by former junior health minister Edwina Currie. The book is her story of her years in the Health Department. Includes interview with...
Murder case reopened after witness admits lies (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Nigel Dearing reports on the reopening of the case of Alban Turner, jailed for life for the murder of a stallholder named Michael Galvin at the 1987 Notting Hill Carnival. The main witness, Kevin Sarbutts,...
Donor skin aids burns victim (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Science correspondent John Allen reports on an operation on two-year-old Ferrial Syed from Southall, London, which used a pioneering new technique in plastic surgery. Skin from a patient who had died was...
Police search for missing nurse (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Pat Beasley reports on a police search for missing Cambridgeshire nurse, Harbans Gill, who disappeared after leaving Addenbrooke’s Hospital at the end of a night shift. Includes interview with Chief...
Douglas Hurd’s first day as Foreign Secretary (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Report on the first day as Foreign Secretary for Douglas Hurd. Includes press questions on his way to and excerpt from speech at the British Council about the prospects for business within the EEC and the...
Thatcher opposes Commonwealth over South African sanctions (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Political editor Peter Murphy reports from the Commonweath conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher issuing, subsequent to the agreed document, a statement opposing...
Inquest into death of disabled woman in squalid conditions (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Davina Payne reports on calls for a public inquiry and legislative change in light of the case of Beverly Lewis, the deaf, blind and disabled woman who died in squalor at the home she shared with her...
Surrey police criticised following Guildford Four release (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Fiona Hill reports on criticism of the Surrey police following the release of the Guildford Four, wrongly convicted for pub bombings carried out by the Provisional IRA as police fabrication of evidence has...
Ruling in the Hammersmith and Fulham money market gambling case (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Oni Bhattacharya reports on the High Court ruling that Hammersmith and Fulham Council acted illegally by gambling on the money markets with ratepayers money. Includes Cliff Nicholson of the Audit Commission,...