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British beef is safe (1996)

Genre

Speech

EU leaders have promised to draw up a rescue plan to bring the British beef industry back from the brink of collapse following the BSE scare. UK Prime Minister John Major reiterates that European and British...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.38: Programme 38 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 38 Programme 38 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 12 July 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER. TRACK...

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British beef back on the menu (1990)

Genre

Interview

Agriculture Minister John Gummer on an agreement by EC members to lift the ban on British beef over BSE fears following lengthy talks in Brussels. The deal will require tough new measures including a...

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British beef safety ads (1990)

Genre

Interview

Agriculture Minister John Gummer rules out government cash as requested by Welsh farmers for a TV advertising campaign aimed at restoring customer confidence in British beef amid fears over BSE. Mr Gummer...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

British beef safe to eat (1990)

Genre

News report; Speech; Debate

Agriculture Minister John Gummer stresses to the Commons Agriculture Committee that British beef is safe to eat amid fears over BSE and responds to Conservative MP Paul Marland’s call for a lift on the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Europe bans British beef (1996)

Genre

News report

The European Union are refusing to budge on their worldwide ban on the British beef trade as BSE has hit the country. Chief European correspondent John Fraser explains the implications of the ban which is...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

McDonalds stop using British beef (1996)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Beef is back on the menu at McDonald’s but its Dutch. The burger giant was the first fast food chain to suspend beef products because of the latest scare over BSE. Jeff Collins reports from McDonalds in...

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David Curry on British beef boycott (1990)

Genre

Interview

Agriculture Minister David Curry talks to Paul Rowley about the French delaying lifting a boycott on British beef following a European Commission ruling it is safe. He says they are protecting their trade...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Londoners on CJD and eating beef (1995)

Genre

Vox pop

Robert Allen interviews Londoners outside a MacDonald’s restaurant in King Street, Hammersmith, on the scare over Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (so-called Mad Cow disease or BSE) and the connection with eating...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

French minister on British beef boycott (1990)

Genre

Interview

French agriculture minister Dominic Barbin admits if the European Commission had made an order rather than just a recommendation that France lift a boycott on British beef over BSE fears they would have...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio