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55 results found for '"Water companies"' in Keywords.

  • Ian Gow denies tax on water (1985)

    Genre
    Interview

    Environment Minister Ian Gow denies the Government is to impose tax on water but agrees Thames Water bills will go up as the Government asks water authorities to pay back debts. Female interviewer not...

  • Bradford City FC fire - water supply criticism (1985)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with a water authority spokesman who denies the allegation in a Fire Brigade union report of incompetence due to low water supply and pressure during the Bradford City Football Club Valley Parade...

  • Conference on privatisation of water industry (1988)

    Genre
    Interview

    Author and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg on a conference he chaired today, organised by the Labour Party’s environment spokesman Jack Cunningham, on fears for the environment and Britain’s beauty spots if...

  • Michael Howard discusses water prices (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Minister for Water Michael Howard says he may take steps to ensure private water companies don’t increase their charges by more than ten percent. He speaks after meeting two representatives of the...

  • Thatcher on water privitisation (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    UK Prime Minister Thatcher admitted for the first time that the government has been losing the propaganda war on water privatisation in a speech at a local government conference (speech excerpts heard)....

  • Thatcher attacks Ridley (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference; Speech; Parliamentary debate

    Kevin Murphy reports on 2 rebukes of Environment Minister Nicholas Ridley by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over a wrong briefing for the amount intended for the UN environmental programme, and his...

  • Lord Crickhowell on NRA power (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    George Matheson interviews Lord Crickhowell (Nicholas Edwards), first chairman of the new National Rivers Authority following the privatisation of UK water companies. He says that it will be a strong...

  • Increase in London’s rat population (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Julie Benson reports on a 30 percent increase in London’s rat population since the beginning of 1989. Weil’s disease, spread by rat urine in water, is on the increase too especially in the Thames....

  • Howard on water price rises (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Environment Minister, Michael Howard, on likely customer water price rises following privatisation of the industry in 1989. The Government today limited the companies to a maximum average...

  • Howard on water privatisation (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Environment Minister Michael Howard, on likely customer water price rises following privatisation of the industry in 1989. The Government today limited the companies to a maximum average...