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Heseltine on European ERM and single currency (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Former cabinet minister, Michael Heseltine, speaks to an unidentified male reporter following a speech to academics in Oxford. The speech was meant to be on green issues but he instead took the opportunity...
TUC to meet CBI and Government (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
General Secretary of the TUC, Norman Willis, speaking prior to the National Economic Development Council meeting between the TUC, CBI and government this week, urges the government to speak about economic...
Operation Cheater (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Fraud squad officers investigating allegations of corrupt land deals involving Liverpool City Council between 1985 and now have descended on 60 premises, arresting 22 people including former deputy council...
Iraqi economic sanctions (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Phil Edwards reports from Saudi Arabia, where Air Chief Marshall Sir Patrick Hine, the supreme commander of Britain’s Gulf forces, has been visiting troops following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. He says...
USA seeks support against Iraq (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference; Speech
Nick Peters reports from Washington DC where the United States is moving to breathe new life into the international alliance against Iraq, following a lull during which President George H.W. Bush was almost...
Challenger tanks deployed in Gulf (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Phil Edwards reports from Saudi Arabia, where Challenger battle tanks from the UK Seventh Armoured Brigade are being deployed in the deserts of Saudi Arabia for the first time in the Gulf crisis. Although...
UN resolution condemns Israel over Jerusalem killings (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Paul Woodley reports on a vote by the UN security council condemning Israel for refusing to allow a UN commission to investigate the deaths of 21 Palestinians at the hands of Israeli security forces. It’s...
Thatcher rejects single currency at summit (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Helen Costello reports on the outcome of talks in Rome on monetary union which have brought a European common currency a step nearer. UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has pledged not to give in to...
EC fails to agree farming subsidy cuts (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
John Fraser interviews John Gummer, UK Agriculture Minister, about the failure of European Community farm and trade ministers to agree cuts in subsidies to farmers during talks in Luxembourg. It was the...
Trapped Westerners in Kuwait speak via smuggled video (1990)
- Genre
- Special
Excerpt from a video smuggled out of Kuwait following the Iraqi invasion featuring two Westerners in hiding. In the recording the first speaker tells of atrocities by Iraqi forces while the second, an...