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  • Safe havens to be set up for Kurdish refugees (1991)

    Genre
    Press conference

    Press conference by Prime Minister John Major outside 10 Downing Street on international agreement initiated by him to set up safe havens in northern Iraq for Kurdish refugees. Details are being worked out...

  • Douglas Hogg on British hostages (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Des Fahy interviews Foreign Office minister Douglas Hogg about British hostages being held in the Middle East as the fifth anniversary of the abduction of John McCarthy is reached. He says the government is...

  • John McCarthy 5th anniversary of being taken hostage (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Jill Morrell from Friends of John McCarthy talks about how he will know it is the 5 year anniversary of him being taken hostage, the conditions he is in, the messages they have sent in a Beirut newspaper and...

  • Graeme Souness becomes manager of Liverpool FC (1991)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Press conference

    Julian Waters reports on Graeme Souness becoming manager of Liverpool Football Club where he used to play, after resigning from Glasgow Rangers, and looks back at his career in the game. Includes excerpt of...

  • US finally support Kurdish safe havens (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Washington correspondent Nick Peters reports for LBC Newstalk on US President George H. W. Bush finally agreeing to an international plan to set up safe havens for Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and on...

  • Kenneth Baker on crime in business (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Home Secretary Kenneth Baker talks to Nicky Broyd about crime in businesses from fraud to shoplifting to arson and how to prevent it as national crime prevention week continues. Interview at a London...

  • SAT’s tests for all 7-year-olds (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Havovi Todd reports on the new Standard Assessment Task (SAT) that all 7-year-olds are now sitting, the controversy over the tests at a young age and how the results may impact schools. Opinions from London...

  • Female alcohol and drug addiction (1991)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Speech

    Mark Phillips reports on the Townswomen’s Guilds conference in central London about drug and alcohol addiction. Includes interviews with Action on Addiction’s Dr John Strang; Eric Appleby, Alcohol...

  • Parliament debate over Kurdish safe havens (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate

    Paul Rowley reports from Westminster for LBC Newstalk on the Parliamentary debate over temporary safe haven camps being set up in northern Iraq for Kurdish refugees now John Major has received international...

  • Government action on Kurdish refugees (1991)

    Genre
    Speech

    Speech by Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd in Parliament on what the government is doing to help the Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq following his meeting with aid charities this morning, including aid...