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Neil Kinnock and new Labour policies (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
The Labour Party’s National Executive is now discussing its most difficult policy review: how the party will deal with defence and nuclear weapons. The Labour leadership wants to drop its commitment to...
Simon Hayward to be released early (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
British man, Simon Hayward is to be released early from a Swedish prison after serving half of a five-year sentence for drug smuggling. Unidentified male speaker (wrongly? identified in the original...
US bomber explodes over Oxfordshire homes (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Terrified villagers flooded police with calls during the night when the sky above a US nuclear base lit up with flames. A fireball erupted above Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire when an American F1-11 bomber...
George Bush prepared for invasion of Panama (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Ten thousand American troops are on standby as President George Bush considers sending them in to Panama to overthrow dictator General Noriega. The US Government says the opposition would have won last...
Chambermaid sacked, and possibly deported (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
A chambermaid who branded the Duchess of Argyll a boozy liar has been found guilty of dishonestly running up a five-and-a-half thousand pound telephone bill. A jury rejected Samira Elaadouli’s claim...
Neil Kinnock on nuclear defence policy (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
In his first major speech since Labour’s National Executive backed his multilateral policy of negotiating away nuclear weapons, Neil Kinnock told his audience at the Welsh Labour Conference in Llandudno...
Inside an emergency control centre (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
An emergency control centre in South London has been opened to the media. The bunker, which is below a block of council flats near Crystal Palace, is intended to house up to 50 council and police...
John Moore says poverty is relative (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
Campaigners fighting poverty in Britain have been outraged by the latest statement from cabinet minister John Moore. The Social Security Secretary says the country’s poor are not really poor because...
Neil Kinnock on nuclear weapons and defence policy (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Labour leader Neil Kinnock has fiercely defended the party’s abandonment of unilateral nuclear disarmament, and called on his left-wing critics to back the change. In his first speech since the...
Panama leader rigs election (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
Britain is calling on Panama’s drug-running dictator, General Manuel Noriega to quit following this week’s sham elections. The Foreign Office says there is no doubt the opposition were the...