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39,247 results found for all records.
DSS cuts planned (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
The Prime Minister John Major defended DSS office and staff cutback plans at Question Time today, claiming that the cuts would help those on benefits - but this is a claim dismissed by civil servants’...
Nurses’ pay rise announced (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Today the Government announced pay rises for nurses, doctors, and teachers. Nurses are to get a two percent rise. The General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Christine Hancock, is dismayed...
Nurses’ 2% pay rise (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell defends the Government’s proposed pay rises for public service workers. He says that the two percent pay rise for nurses is just part of a package that has to be negotiated...
Prescription charges and health service wages increase (1996)
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- Interview
Doctors and dentists are to get twice as much as nurses in the Government’s public sector pay review, but their pay rise will be staggered, with half in April and half in December. And the news that...
Prescription charges and health service wages increase (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell defends the Government’s proposed rise in NHS prescription charges, claiming that it is only those able to pay who will feel the effect of the rises. In response to earlier...
Big media merger (1996)
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- Interview
The United News group is merging with Lord Hollick’s MAI corporation, which already owns Anglia and Meridian TV as well as a lucrative money broking operation. Lord Hollick will be chief executive of the...
Bob Dole wins Iowa caucuses (1996)
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- Interview; News report; Speech
Senator Bob Dole and Conservative Pat Buchanan finished ahead of their rivals in the first leg of the race for the US presidency. The results of the Iowa presidential caucuses came in over night, with Dole...
Pay rise for head of British Gas (1996)
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- Interview
Labour’s Consumer Affairs Spokesman Nigel Griffiths on the pay rise awarded by British Gas to retiring chief executive Cedric Brown. He says that the move has discredited a formerly well-respected company.
Pay rise for head of British Gas (1996)
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- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the pay rise awarded by British Gas to chief executive Cedric Brown. The speaker pays tribute to Brown’s professional abilities and wishes him luck, but criticises British...
British Gas de-merger (1996)
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- Interview
Unidentified male (poss. Energy Secretary Tim Eggar) on the splitting of British Gas company in two. He outlines the directors’ responsibilities in this regard and says that any consumers unhappy with the...