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Trade Secretary Nicholas Ridley has resigned (1990)
- Genre
- News bulletin; News report; Speech
Iain Ramage reads the 18.00 IRN news bulletin focusing on Trade Secretary Nicholas Ridley resigning over comments in The Spectator on Europe. With reports from Westminster from political editor Peter Murphy...
Murder in Coldharbour Lane (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference; Speech
John Allen reports on the murder of 23-year-old Roger Green, stabbed to death at the back of the Grenada Cars minicab office in Coldharbour Lane, London on Friday evening by a group of youths who escaped by...
Nurse Daphne Parish released from Iraqi prison (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech; Vox pop
Nurse Daphne Parish speaks for the first time on her way back to Gatwick Airport following her release from prison in Iraq. Zambian President, Kenneth Kaunda, who helped secure Parish’s release by speaking...
House of Commons tributes to the Queen Mother (1990)
- Genre
- Speech; Tribute
Tributes from the House of Commons to the Queen Mother ahead of her 90th birthday. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Labour leader Neil Kinnock and Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown all send tributes....
IRA shootings in Lichfield and Dortmund (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference; Speech; Vox pop
Simon Bowden reports on the shooting of three Army cadets at Lichfield railway station in Staffordshire. Detective Chief Superintendent Malcolm Bevington(?) (named elsewhere in the archive as Beverton(?)) on...
Roadside blast kills four in Northern Ireland (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on the deaths of three RUC policemen and a Roman Catholic nun, Sister Catherine Dunn, after a roadside bomb was set off in Armagh, Northern Ireland. A further woman is in hospital suffering from a...
Helicopter crash at Brent Spar (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the Sikorsky helicopter crash that left 6 people dead after it tried to land on the Brent Spar oil storage platform. Speakers are Aberdeen Coastguard spokesman Peter Webb and spokesman for the...
Appointment of George Carey as Archbishop of Canterbury (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the appointment of Dr George Carey, Bishop of Bath and Wells as the next Archbishop of Canterbury following the announcement of Dr Robert Runcie’s retirement. Includes part of speech by Carey,...
Announcement of death of Airey Neave (1990)
- Genre
- Speech
Archive announcement by Labour MP, Michael Cox of the car bomb attack on shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Airey Neave (at this point still unidentified) in the House of Commons car park (30/03/79). Neave...
Labour Party summer campaign (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on the Labour Party and its campaign plan for the summer recess as the Conservative Party trail in the opinion polls. Speakers are Labour leader Neil Kinnock and campaign co-ordinator Jack Cunningham....