Results

Air Minded Ramsgate

Date released

19 Jan 1933

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

33/6

NoS ID

090387

Story no

8 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

Members of the town council make official flight to London, inaugurating a London-to-Sea air service to commence shortly. Other councils please follow.

News on Screen Cinema news Online Moving image

Council funding for London women homeworkers (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview on the insufficient grants from London borough councils to assist poorly paid women homeworkers and the refusal of the GLC to provide funding. Female speaker and interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

The Business Programme No.68 (1990)

The Business Programme, broadcast on Monday evenings and presented by Rob Thomas. Track 1- The Impact of the uniform business rate in the South. Interview with Geoff Scott, partner, Vail-Williams,...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Ronan Points Flats Changed To Electricity

Date released

22 Aug 1968

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

68/68

NoS ID

113217

Story no

1 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

A government tribunal investigating the collapse in May of Ronan Point, the multi-storey block of flats, in which five died, recommended to local councils that gas supplies to these types of dwellings should...

News on Screen Cinema news Online Moving image

Money kept back from Labour councils (1984)

Genre

Interview

Interview with junior minister William Waldegrave, on the claims 50 million pounds has been withheld from Labour controlled councils. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

GLC budget and Labour councils plans (1983)

Genre

News report

Report on the Greater London Council budget which is to be debated at a meeting later today, and GLC plans to take over financial responsibility for Labour-controlled borough council projects so that the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Gillian Shephard on wages councils (1992)

Genre

Interview

Employment Secretary, Gillian Shephard tells Paul Rowley why wages councils add an unnecessary hurdle for employers in a difficult economic climate. She argues against the claim that removing them will...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Peter Shore on council rates for 1979 (1978)

Genre

Interview

Secretary of State for the Environment, Peter Shore on government grants to local authorities. Shore says there will be increases in urban areas and insists that these are the areas that need it most. He...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rates limits set on Labour councils (1985)

Genre

Speech

Extract from Environment Secretary Patrick Jenkin’s Commons speech setting a Rate Limitation Order which prescribes rates (local taxes) limits for thirteen Labour controlled local authorities. Details...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

GLC abolition white paper launched (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Environment Secretary Patrick Jenkin at the launch of the Government White Paper which seeks to abolish the Greater London Council and six metroplitan councils to simplify the structure of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio