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David Alton’s abortion bill (1988)

Genre

Interview

Emma Udwin interviews MP David Alton, who has won the first round of his campaign to cut the abortion time limit from 28 to 18 weeks. His private member’s bill now goes to the committee stage, and Alton...

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Channel Tunnel opening to public soon (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report

Eurotunnel has fixed a date on which passengers will be allowed to travel under the Channel for the first time. An overture service will begin on 03/10/94. Eurotunnel’s Commercial Director, Christopher...

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Hugh Grant on Hollywood arrest (1995)

Genre

Interview; Talk show

Actor Hugh Grant has been talking publicly for the first time about his arrest after being caught with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown. Here he speaks on NBC Super Channel, whilst on a promotional tour for...

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A postcard from Strasbourg: March 1988 (1988)

The Euronauts meet together for the first time since the Euro Summit. The cash crisis, women at work and the tropical rain forest are among the items to tax their brains. Jim Gibbons will be there to watch...

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Diane Jones case - Witness sighting (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Essex mill owner Barry Otger, who claims to have seen Mrs Diane Jones on the afternoon of her disappearance, in a hairdresser’s she had visited for the first time. He says she was behaving...

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Yugoslavia peace conference (1992)

Genre

Speech

UK Prime Minister John Major speaks to a conference in London on peace in former Yugoslavia. He urges the delegates, who for the first time include representatives of all the warring factions, to reach a...

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Unemployment has risen slightly (1995)

Genre

Interview

Unemployment has risen for the first time in nearly two years. Ian Brinkley, an economist at the TUC on reasons for change, predicts trends for the future, what the Goverment can do to turn the trend round...

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Conservative speaker on home ownership (1977)

Genre

Speech

Speech by an unidentified Conservative politician (poss. housing spokesman Hugh Rossi), to the 1977 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, on the subject of grants for first time homebuyers, and easier...

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Baby born to Princess Anne (1977)

Genre

News report; Interview

Stephen Jackson of Trent Polytechnic on a unique royal baby as it is the first time that five generations of the Royal family are living. Asked about just having one name, Master Phillips, and not taking a...

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Martin McGuinness calls for peace talks (1996)

Genre

Interview

Government officials will meet Sinn Fein leaders face-to-face tomorrow for the first time since the IRA resumed its terror campaign. Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein says they will press the case for a date to...

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