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  • GLC abolition - Proposed amendments (1984)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Parliamentary debate

    Report on proposed amendments to the Government’s bill to abolish the GLC and other elected metropolitan authorities. The speakers include: GLC leader Ken Livingstone; Conservative GLC member George...

  • GLC abolition - Commons vote on bill (1984)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on a Parliamentary vote on part of the Government’s bill to abolish the GLC and other elected metropolitan authorities. The speakers include: GLC leader Ken Livingstone; GLC Conservative group...

  • GLC abolition - Members resign (1984)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on the resignation from the GLC of leader Ken Livingstone, John McDonald, Lewis Herbert and Ken Little in order to force by-elections over the issue of the Government’s abolition proposals. The...

  • GLC abolition - Birthday celebrations (1984)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Special

    Report describing the 95th birthday celebrations of the Greater London Council, occurring during the implementation of Government plans to abolish the organisation. Organiser Peter Pitt and GLC Conservative...

  • GLC Thames Day Extravaganza (1984)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Vox pop

    Report from the GLC’s public event, Thames Day. The activities are described, and Barbara Bate from Westminster Muscular Dystrophy; Lord Birkett (GLC director for recreation and the arts); and Londoners...

  • Claims LRT to raise fares (1984)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on the claims that London Regional Transport plan to raise Tube fares (in 01/85) now that the Government appointed quango has taken over control of London public transport from the GLC. With comment...

  • Heavy lorries may be banned from London (1984)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Dave Wetzel, Vice-Chairman of Transport for London, on the proposals to ban the use of heavy lorries in London to reduce lorry noise in the capital. Male interviewer not identified.

  • GLC by-elections (1984)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock urging Londoners to turn out to vote in the GLC by-elections, and on why they should vote Labour. He says he does not agree with the more controversial...

  • GLC abolition bill - Ken Livingstone interview (1984)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with GLC leader Ken Livingstone about a Parliamentary vote on part of the Government’s bill proposing the abolition of the GLC and other elected metropolitan authorities. Male interviewer not...

  • Marchington air accident (1984)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on a crash which killed eleven people when a Vickers Varsity twin engine plane crashed in an airfield near Marchington in Staffordshire. With comment from RAF technician Stephen Maycock(?), and...