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Chief Constable on Tyneside riots (1991)

Genre

Interview

Northumbria’s Chief Constable Stanley Bailey condemns Newcastle’s rioters who have been throwing bricks and petrol bombs at firemen for a second night, calling them ignorant and stupid. Interviewer not...

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Body Scanner Appeal; Ken Thomas (1981)

The Ken Thomas Appeal has launched a new scheme to raise money for their body scanner this lunchtime. A year since Ken Thomas himself died from cancer. To date the appeal has raised over 8 hundred and 30...

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Chief Constable on Tyneside riots (1991)

Genre

Interview

Northumbria Chief Constable Stanley Bailey on the Newcastle rioters, youths who have been throwing petrol bombs and bricks at fire crews and police for a second night running. Interviewer not heard.

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Houses versus homes (1975)

Genre

Speech

Unidentified male speaker on the importance of the home, as opposed to the house. A home, he says, preserves traditions and values; in planning, bricks and mortar are not enough. He also talks about the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Police training simulation (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with police spokesman Jack Kent, in which he describes the harsh training being given to riot police, including having bricks and heavy missiles thrown at them, which has resulted in serious...

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Wood Green rioters explain (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interviews with Wood Green, North London riot participants about why they rioted and what they did during the riot including looting shops and throwing bricks at police. They blame police harassment and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Miners strike - Eyewitness account of picket line violence (1984)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male eyewitness on the coal miners’ picket line action in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, where miner David Jones died. Speaker describes how bottles, sticks, bricks and stones were thrown. He saw...

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POA chairman on Risley Remand Centre riots (1989)

Genre

News report; Press conference

Prison officers at Risley, Warrington have claimed that rioting prisoners virtually destroyed the remand centre’s education wing. But a management spokesman says the officers’ claims are exaggerated....

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Village Life: Arborfield (1987)

Mike Matthews this week visit the village life of Arborfield and Arborfield Cross. It lies 5 miles South of Reading on the A327 in Berkshire. The village has a long association with the Royal Electrical and...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.39: Programme 39 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 39 Programme 39 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 19 July 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER. TRACK...

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