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Conservative conference - Channel Tunnel rail link route (1991)
- Genre
- Speech
Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind announces that the Channel Tunnel rail link will run through London’s East End to King’s Cross and not through Kent to South London as British Rail wanted; it is met...
Channel Tunnel rail link route decided (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Eurotunnel Chief Executive Sir Alastair Morton says the Government’s decision for the Channel Tunnel rail link to go through East London to King’s Cross and not Kent to South London will be a disaster....
Businessman Ian Richter held in Iraq (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
British businessman Ian Richter - held without trial for five years in Iraq â says he has learnt not to get his hopes up over his possible release. Follows Britain offering to free Iraqi assets held...
Conservative conference - Channel Tunnel rail link route (1991)
- Genre
- Speech
Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind announces the government’s decision for the Channel Tunnel route to go through East London and arrive in King’s Cross rather than Kent and South London. The decision,...
Channel Tunnel rail link route decided (1991)
- Genre
- Speech; Vox pop; Interview; News report
Report by Sue Flipping on the announcement by Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind (excerpt from speech at Conservative party conference in Blackpool heard) that the Channel Tunnel rail link will go through...
Channel Tunnel rail link route decided (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Mike Carlton interviews British Rail’s Director for the Channel Tunnel rail link Southerly route, Gil Howarth. He is disappointed by the Government’s decision the route will go through East London to...
Channel Tunnel rail link route decided (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Transport Minister Roger Freeman discusses the decision to run the Channel Tunnel rail link into Stratford and King’s Cross instead of through Kent to South London as proposed by British Rail and whether...
Channel Tunnel rail link route decided (1991)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on reaction to and implications of Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind’s announcement the Channel Tunnel rail link will go via Stratford to King’s Cross rather than through Kent into South London....
Poll tax conviction in Wales (1991)
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- News report; Interview
Sara Tudor reports on the case of seventy-nine-year-old Tom Hopkins, the first man in Wales for to be jailed for refusing to pay his poll tax. He’s pledged to starve himself in jail to continue the...
Labour reveal new health statistics showing operations cancelled (1991)
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- Interview
Des Fahy interviews shadow Health Secretary, Harriet Harman, on new NHS statistics which the Labour Party says show almost 300,000 hospital operations were cancelled in 1990. Harman claims the cancellations...