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Gibraltar IRA shootings (1988)
- Genre
- Speech; Parliamentary debate
Parliamentary statement by UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, about the shooting in Gibraltar of three IRA members by the SAS (06/03/88). Says most people will be relieved they were stopped before another...
Princess Anne on refugees (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Dickie Arbiter reports on a speech by Princess Anne to relief agency workers at a seminar on refugee children. She says that that the international community must help make undeveloped countries economically...
Tom King on IRA funeral attack (1988)
- Genre
- Speech
Northern Ireland Secretary, Tom King, appealing for calm and condemning violence after the attacks on the funeral of three alleged IRA terrorists at Milltown Cemetary in Belfast. Three people were killed and...
Terror attack at funerals of Gibraltar IRA men (1988)
- Genre
- Speech
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Tom King reporting to the Commons on the killing of three mourners and the injury of 68 at the funerals of the three IRA men killed in Gibraltar, at Belfast’s...
Nurses raise money for Third World charities (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Report by Court correspondent Dickie Arbiter on Britain’s nurses raising money for three charities for the Third World: War on Want, Oxfam and the Save the Children Fund. SCF President Princess Anne on...
Margaret Thatcher address to the Conservative Party’s central council (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher addressing the Conservative Party’s central council at a conference in Buxton. Attacking the Labour Party under Neil Kinnock; on law and order; praises Chancellor Nigel...
Milltown Cemetery attack funeral (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the funeral of Thomas McErlean, one of three mourners killed chasing the Milltown Cemetery attacker. Sermon by Father Matt Wallace at St Peters Cathedral on the lack of prospects for young men in...
Tony Benn to contest Labour leadership (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
After months of speculation, veteran left winger Tony Benn has announced he will challenge Neil Kinnock’s leadership of the Labour Party at its annual contest in the autumn with Eric Heffer as his...
US presidential candidates do battle in Michigan (1988)
- Genre
- Election coverage; Interview; News report; Speech
Andrew Manderstam reports on the US Presidential candidate race, where Democratic Party favourite Michael Dukakis has lost out in Michigan to black candidate Jesse Jackson. Includes excerpt of Jackson...
Tony Benn speech in Essex (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Paul Seagrove reports on a speech by Labour leadership contender Tony Benn at Basildon, Essex. In a veiled attack on Neil Kinnock, he argues for the right of party members to put forward different views, and...