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Kegworth air disaster - hospital staff praised (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
The Kegworth air disaster occurred on 8 January 1989, when British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway near Kegworth, Leicestershire. The official health...
Military rule in Beijing (1989)
- Genre
- News report
Gareth Furby reports on the military crackdown in Beijing, where western journalists have been detained and questioned by the authorities. Meanwhile, the diplomatic standoff between China and the United...
Beijing arrests students; expels US journalists (1989)
- Genre
- News report
Gareth Furby reports from Beijing on the continuing military and political crackdown on dissidents. Comments on the arrest of Zhou Fengsuo, a 22 year-old physics student at Qinghua University in Beijing, who...
Jupiter cruise ship accident - Insurers’ deadline (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
James Bays reports on a two thousand pounds compensation offer by insurers, Norton Rose to passengers who were on board the Jupiter cruise ship which sank off Piraeus in Greece in 10/88. At a High Court...
Margaret Thatcher says she supports Lawson (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate
Des Fahy reports from Westminster on the alleged feud between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Chancellor, Nigel Lawson prior to polling day in the European elections. Includes excerpts from Prime...
European elections - reaction to results (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Peter Spencer reports on the UK results in the 1989 European elections, in which the Labour Party claimed victory after taking ten seats from the Conservatives. The Greens took fifteen percent of the vote,...
Anti-Rushdie rally turns violent in Bradford (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Dee Marshall reports on violence in Bradford when fighting broke out between white youths and Muslims protesting against the publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Satanic Verses. Includes crowd noise;...
Bank robbery in Oxfordshire (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Michael O’Neill reports from Oxfordshire on a police manhunt for an armed gang, who kidnapped the families of two bank employees Angela Ward and Mandy Saunders in Turweston on the Northamptonshire border...
Chancellor Lawson speaks to directors (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Deputy financial editor Robin Amlot reports on a speech by Chancellor Nigel Lawson at the Institute of Directors annual dinner last night (excerpts heard) in the context of fears of a rise in interest rates....
Financial news-rises for inflation and interest rates (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
LBC’s deputy financial editor Robin Amlot reports on the week’s financial news and talks to Treasury secretary Norman Lamont about the UK inflation rise- he is confident it will peak around these levels...