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Lockerbie bombing - Air security measures (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate
Transport Secretary Paul Channon tells the House of Commons of the security measures taken when a bomb is thought to be on a plane, as in the case of Pan Am Flight 103. The measures are compared with those...
Guildford Four to appeal (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Home Secretary Douglas Hurd has allowed the four people convicted of the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings to take their case to the Court of Appeal. Labour MP, Jeremy Corbyn says the decision is a...
Identity cards for football fans (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Environment Secretary Nicholas Ridley voices the Government’s determination to stamp out hooliganism associated with football. In future anyone wishing to watch a football match, unless they are...
Police chief on Miami riots (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
Donald March, Assistant Chief of Police, denies racial tensions are high in Overtown, Miami following the shooting by police of a young black man after a motorcycle chase, and subsequent rioting. The Mayor...
Alex Higgins breaks ankle in fall from window (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Snooker star Alex Hurricane Higgins is recovering from a broken ankle this afternoon, after falling from a second-floor window at his Manchester apartment in the early hours of this morning. He was...
Position of Lockerbie bomb identified (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Detectives investigating the Pan Am jumbo jet crash at Lockerbie say they know where the explosive device was placed on Flight 103 and have found the luggage container which held the bag containing the...
Government proposes identity card scheme for football fans (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on Government plans for a membership card scheme for football supporters, aimed at combating the problem of crowd violence. Football League president Jack Dunnett believes they could end up with egg...
Children killed by gunman in California (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Nick Peters report in which he describes the scene at a school in Stockton, California, where a gunman dressed in combat gear opened fire on a playground full of children. Five children were killed. A...
Protesters out in force as police storm church to seize asylum seeker (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; Music; News report
The arrest of Sri Lankan (failed asylum seeker?) Viraj Mendis has provoked a political storm. Earlier today the thirty-two year-old communist and Tamil separatist was forcibly seized and removed from the...
Great Ormond Street Hospital to lose day care unit (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Just a week after the Great Ormond Street appeal reached its 42 million-pound target, the world famous hospital has been told that its day care unit treating sexually abused children is to be closed in a...