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Tesco car park security (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a bagsnatch victim of crime at a Tesco supermarket car park, says the security at Tesco’s should be increased and people should be warned as she was told it was a frequent occurence. Refers...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Councillor Michael Hancock resigns from the Labour Group of Hampshire County Council (1981)

The Department of Transport has brought an exhibition to Reading in a double-decker bus. It shows the problems disabled people have to face when they use public transport, and some ways of making travel...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

10,000th disabled car presented at Downing Street (1980)

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference

Report from No 10 Downing Street on the presentation by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the 10,000th car (and 3 others) provided by the Motability Scheme for disabled people. Includes press interviews...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Taunton sleeping car fire inquiry report (1980)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a male railway industry spokesman (not identified – poss Major Tom King, Railway Inspecting Officer), about the 1978 Taunton sleeping car fire in which 12 people died, and on the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Shoukat Ali beaten to death by car stereo thief (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

David Kermode reports from the scene on the fatal beating of 59-year-old businessman Shoukat Ali in Hornsey after he confronted a man stealing his son’s car stereo. The thief was chased by locals who lost...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Youngster in stolen car kills six (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report

The grieving parents of a 14 year-old boy may face legal proceedings after their son took their car and crashed it, killing six people near Blackpool in a head-on collision. Selina Hanif(?)'s report includes...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Review of trial of John DeLorean (1984)

Genre

Interview; News report; Press conference

Report looking back on the five month trial of car maker John DeLorean, who was accused of drug trafficking and money laundering to avoid going bankrupt. His entrapment by US law officers meant he was...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Car bomb explodes in Bayswater (1981)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on an explosion in Connaught Square, Bayswater, London. A white Datsun Cherry was blown up as it drove away at 2.35 pm. Includes interviews with Adam Watson-Brown, who was in a nearby house, and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

DeLorean (1981)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; News bulletin; Special; Speech

Recording of an ATV (ITV) television documentary (made by American film director D A Pennebaker) entitled DeLorean, examining the DeLorean car company and dealings of company boss John DeLorean as they take...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bill Rodgers on car tax refund (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Bill Rodgers, Transport Minister, about the refund on road licences to 600,000 motorists. He explains how people can apply, and why it happened.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio