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45 results found for '"Warrington"' in Keywords.
Risley Remand Centre siege (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
The rooftop protest by inmates at Risley Remand Centre in Cheshire is set to end this evening. The fifty-four protesters say they will come down from the roof at 7.30 pm. It is understood that Prison...
Risley Remand Centre - House of Commons debate (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate
In the House of Commons, Margaret Thatcher’s tenth anniversary in power was marked by sharp exchanges between herself and Neil Kinnock. But as Paul Rowley reports, it followed MPs’ continuing concern...
Risley Remand Centre returns 300 prisoners to cells (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Prison officers at the Risley Remand Centre in Warrington, Cheshire are threatening to take industrial action following last week’s riots. They are angry at the decision by the authorities to move more...
Risley Remand Centre changes (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Prison officers at Risley Remand Centre say the Governor, Ian Boon, is to blame for last week’s riots. The Prison Officers Association (POA) at Risley has handed Boon a resolution, taken after a meeting...
Kidnapper given 15 year jail sentence (1991)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Report on the sentencing of John Warrington to 15 years imprisonment for the kidnap of millionaire’s wife Margaret Smith for ransom. Mrs Smith comments on her ordeal. Stephanie West reports. Includes sound...
Bishop speaks at IRA bomb victim’s funeral (1993)
- Genre
- Speech
At the funeral at St Wilfred’s church in Grappenhall, of Jonathan Ball a 3-year-old boy killed in IRA bomb attacks in Warrington, the Bishop of Birkenhead, Right Reverend Michael Langrish condemns the...
IRA Warrington bomb attack and PC shooting (1993)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Interview; Vox pop
John Pickford reports on yesterday’s IRA bomb attack on a gasworks in Warrington when 3 explosions caused a huge fireball but no fatalities. Includes statement by Cheshire Assistant Chief Constable Brian...
Bomb attacks in Warrington (1993)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop; Speech
David Addis reports on IRA bomb attacks in a central Warrington shopping centre. Eyewitness accounts from Nicola Wheatley and Mike Rondo(?); David Todhunter from the local ambulance service on the...
Nurse on IRA bomb victim death (1993)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Karen Taylor, a nurse who was holding 3-year-old Jonathan Ball as he died. He had been caught in the IRA bomb blast which shook Warrington, Cheshire. Interviewer not heard.
Emotional plea by father of Warrington bombing victim (1993)
- Genre
- Press conference
Wilfred Ball, father of Jonathan Ball, a 3-year-old killed in an IRA bomb attack in Warrington, speaks out to press about his son’s death at the hands of terrorism. He condemns the IRA, calling on them to...