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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...