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Automatic rifles banned (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, about the banning of automatic rifles after their use by Michael Ryan in the Hungerford Massacre (19/08/87). Reporter not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Village Life: Witchchurch and Witchurch Hill - nd [1986]

Mike Matthews in association with Vincent’s BMW. Today our journey takes us to Whitchurch and Witchurch Hill, in Hampshire. It lies on the B471, just North of Pangbourne. The first door he knocked on was...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Automatic naming of witnesses and defendants in court cases (1977)

Genre

Interview

Following the Casanova Corporal case involving Royal Engineers army corporal Reginald Booth, an unidentified male speaker calls for an inquiry into the automatic naming of witnesses and defendants in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rail safety scheme cutback (1995)

Genre

Interview

John Watts, Minister for Railways and Roads, on rail safety scheme ATP (Automatic Train Protection) which will now only be applied to selected lines due to the cost. Interviewer not heard.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Right to trial by jury (1993)

Genre

Speech

Speech by Lord Chief Justice Taylor (Peter Taylor) on how the right to chose trial by jury is a fundamental liberty. Follows the Royal Commission on criminal justice suggesting trial by jury shouldn’t be...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rail safety scheme cutback (1995)

Genre

Interview

Michael Meacher, Shadow Transport Secretary attacks the government decision to apply ATP (Automatic Train Protection) train safety scheme only to selected lines due to cost. He says the government is going...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Last manned offshore lighthouse goes automatic (1996)

Genre

Interview

Britain’s last manned offshore lighthouse says good-bye to its keepers today for the final time. From tomorrow the Hanois lighthouse in the Channel Islands is to be automated and run by solar power. Head...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Baker on joyriding bill (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Home Secretary Kenneth Baker on a Parliamentary Bill which will lead to joyriders facing up to five years in jail, an unlimited fine, and an automatic driving ban in new legislation revealed...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Tube train without driver (1993)

Genre

Interview

Angela Rippon interviews on her Drivetime show London Underground’s Director of Passenger Services Ian Arthurton following an incident where a train carried passengers for more than a mile without a driver...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Maxwell pensions scandal aftermath (1992)

Genre

Interview

Ken Trench, Chairman of the Maxwell Pensioners’ Action Group is disappointed the Commons Select Committee on Social Security proposals regarding the Maxwell scandal fail to recommend automatic...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio