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Big Issue editor asked for vendor details over benefit fraud concerns (1994)
- Genre
- Interview
The Department of Employment has asked Big Issue founder and editor, John Bird to provide the names of 700 magazine vendors in the London area over fears they are fiddling the benefit system by selling so...
US military police to help demonstrators in Haiti (1994)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
US President Bill Clinton is sending in a thousand US military police to try and prevent violence against pro-democracy demonstrators in Haiti. Speakers: Burton Wides, one of (ex-Haitian President)...
Crime in the workplace survey (1994)
- Genre
- Interview
One in nine people is likely to suffer physical violence at work during any given year, according to a new survey on crime in the British workplace, carried out by Dr Martin Gill of Leicester University....
European Court rules against Fayed brothers (1994)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
The Fayed brothers, owners of Harrods, are condemning a European court ruling over a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) report that branded them dishonest in their takeover of the store. Today’s...
Northern Irish unionists in talks (1994)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
The SDLP, the Ulster Unionists and Sinn Fein are all sending delegates to the USA to brief the White House on how they see the current political situation. In Belfast today, a delegation of Dublin TDs...
BA alleged to have given favours to police (1994)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
It is alleged today British Airways granted favours to Metropolitan Police officers stationed at Heathrow Airport. Journalist Paul Foot reports in Private Eye magazine officers have received discounts...
John Major announces lifting of broadcasting ban (1994)
- Genre
- Speech
Prime Minister John Major announces the lifting of broadcasting restrictions imposed in 1988 that had banned the voices of Sinn Fein (and other organisations’) representatives.
Jimmy Carter on Haiti (1994)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference; Speech
Having sealed the deal that averted an invasion, former US president Jimmy Carter briefs members of the press on the situation in Haiti, and pays tribute to the work of General Colin Powell, a member of his...
Talks between Northern Irish unionists and US Government (1994)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
John Hume, leader of the SDLP, has met US President, Bill Clinton at the White House. The President has apparently set up a special task force on Northern Ireland. From Belfast, Colin Duncan reports....
Railtrack and RMT continue negotiations (1994)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
At eleven o’clock this morning, the two sides in the signalworkers’ dispute, Railtrack and the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), are to resume talks to end the 15 week-old...