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47 results found for '"British Aerospace"' in Keywords.
British Aerospace to make 5000 redundant (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Defence correspomdent Paul Maurice reports on the British Aerospace announcement of the closure of two plants, one in Lancashire and the other at Kingston-on-Thames in Surrey, with the loss of 5,000 jobs...
Rover sale to British Aerospace (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Special; Speech
Peter Murphy reports on the House of Commons select committee meeting about the sale of Rover to British Aerospace following allegations of Government payments to sweeten the deal. Includes former Trade and...
Privatisation of Rover - illegal sweeteners (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate
Des Fahy reports from Westminster on how the Government’s use of financial incentives to British Aerospace in order to reach a deal during the sale and privatisation of British Aerospace’s subsidiary...
Gordon Brown on Rover sale sweeteners (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Labour Party trade and industry spokesman Gordon Brown says the Government and Nicholas Ridley in particular should apologise for wasting taxpayers money and Margaret Thatcher should come clean about her...
Rover takeover unlawful (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary Gordon Brown comments on the report by EC commissioner Leon Brittan which has ruled government financial sweeteners for the British Aerospace takeover of Rover were...
Rover takeover unlawful and proposed airlines merger (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Leon Brittan, EC Commissioner in charge of free competition, is asked about the decision that the UK government was guilty of breaching common market rules in the selling of Rover to British Aerospace...
Lord Young returns to business (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Lord Young (David Young) says he quit the Cabinet last year to spend more time on his business career. He is proud of British Aerospace, and thinks that criticism of him over the Harrods affair is...
Future of the defence industry (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview on the lack of help in the Budget for the UK defence industry; warming of East West relations affecting the industry; job losses and talks between British Aerospace and unions; need for...
Protest march follows BAE announcing cuts (1991)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Report on a demonstration to protest about closures and 10,000 redundancies by British Aerospace (BAE). Sixteen unions were represented on the two mile march from King’s Cross to Westminster in London....
EC legal ruling on British Aerospace sweeteners (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with EC Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan on why he will continue to pursue action against the UK Government for paying sweeteners to British Aerospace when it took over Rover Group 4 years ago despite...