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Jupiter shipwreck - parents of passenger speak of relief (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Mick and Eileen Pullin, whose thirteen-year-old son David Pullin was on board the cruise liner Jupiter which sank off the Greek port of Piraeus with British schoolchildren and teachers from...
Lester Piggott released from prison (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Lorne Spicer reports on the release from Highpoint Prison of former champion jockey Lester Piggott, after serving time for tax fraud. Includes statement by Lester Piggott where he attacks the newspapers for...
Timothy Raison on child benefit freeze (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Timothy Raison MP on increasing resistance from Conservative backbenchers over plans to freeze child benefit for a second year. Social Security Secretary John Moore is understood to have lost...
Compensation awarded to teenager after hospital blunders (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Simon Israel reports on the case of Malinka Head, a teenage girl who’s been left with a mental age of six months after a series of hospital errors. She has been awarded £800,000 damages following a a...
Jupiter shipwreck - death of Bernard Butt (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
William Roncon reports on the presumed death by drowning of 41-year-old teacher Bernard Butt, from the TP Riley School, in Bloxwich, Walsall following the sinking of the cruise liner Jupiter off the Greek...
Grey whales trapped in Alaska (1988)
- Genre
- News report
American journalist Cary Anderson reports from the Alaskan village of Barrow on international attempts to free 2 surviving Californian grey whales (nicknamed Crossbeat and Bonnet) which are ice-bound off the...
Guardian Angels may operate in UK (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Lisa Sliwa, wife of the American Guardian Angels vigilante group founder Curtis Sliwa, on possibility of operating in London and Birmingham. The Angels would patrol London Underground network...
Row over Bradford Council cuts (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
Mike Jones reports on drastic cutbacks by the Conservative controlled Bradford Council including 9000 council job losses. Includes interviews with Eric Pickles, council leader; Phil Beeley, Labour leader;...
Piper Alpha oil rig disaster compensation talks (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Andy Stenton reports from Aberdeen on a fight for compensation for families of victims of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster. Lawyers representing the families have been in talks with platform owners...
Queen’s Birthday Honours (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Nici Marx reports on the Queen’s Birthday Honours ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London. Includes interviews with Patrick Moore, astronomer (CBE); Beryl Grey, ballerina (Dame Commander); Steve Davis,...