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Sea Empress disaster (1996)
- Genre
- News report
Sky’s Martin Lowe says oil’s gushing out of the stricken oil tanker Sea Empress again. The tanker is aground off Milford Haven in Wales. Salvage efforts are being hampered by poor weather conditions.
Sea Empress disaster (1996)
- Genre
- News report
The oil tanker Sea Empress is aground off Milford Haven in Wales and salvage efforts to prevent an environmental disaster are being hampered by poor weather. People have also been evacuated from the local...
Sea Empress disaster (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Wildlife experts in West Wales are fighting to save thousands of seabirds and other marine life threatened by oil leaking from the supertanker Sea Empress aground off Milford Haven which broke free from its...
Laurence Olivier Awards with Dame Judi Dench winning a double (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Dame Judi Dench won an unprecedented double at last night’s Olivier Awards scooping prizes for best actress and also best actress in a musical. London News’ Petroc Trelawny was at the awards and reports...
Matrix Churchill executive on Scott Report (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
The Scott inquiry was launched after the trial of three Matrix Churchill executives accused of exporting arms to Iraq collapsed due to government complicity. One of the men cleared, Trevor Abraham, says...
One to One (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
One to One. In this episode Dan Miodownik talks to golfer Bernard Gallagher on the English win in the Ryder Cup in 1995, the players and being a player-captain. Male presenter introducing programme is not...
George Mitchell on IRA violence (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Former US senator George Mitchell has been in London, and condemns the IRA’s resumption of violence and the London Docklands bombing, calling for a fresh ceasefire. Mitchell is still optimistic about the...
British Gas sees profits slump (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
British Gas end of year results revealed a major profits slump. Paul Chapman reports. Contributions from British Gas Chairman, Richard Giordano, who is unrepentant about his pay arrangements; outgoing chief...
Conservative MP Peter Thurnham resigns party whip (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Conservative MP Peter Thurnham has resigned the party whip ostensibly over the Scott Report into the sale of arms to Iraq, leaving the Government with a shaky Commons majority of just two. His constituency...
Conservative MP Peter Thurnham resigns party whip (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Labour’s Deputy Chief Whip, Nick Brown on MP Peter Thurnham’s decision to resign the Conservative Party whip, ostensibly over the Scott Report into sale of arms to Iraq, which has reduced the...