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Beach water quality improves (1990)

Genre

Interview

Interview with the EC official in charge of monitoring water purity, Grant Lawrence, about UK beaches’ water quality improving and many now meeting the European directive. Legal action may now be avoided....

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Unsafe water supply (1991)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on a police operation to let residents know water was unsafe to drink after a problem at a water treatment works in Buckinghamshire. Includes interviews with Chief Superintendent John Isaac; Three...

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Kuwait oil slick in Gulf war (1991)

Genre

Press conference

General Norman Schwarzkopf press statement about the attempt to limit the damage done by an oil spill created by Iraq in the Gulf, with the source now on fire and the flow of oil also cut off. It was a fine...

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Running of Beckton sewage works during strike (1983)

Genre

Interview; Special

A worker at Beckton Sewage Works describes the running of the works as they walk round it, and how the water workers strike might affect processes. Male speaker and reporter not identified.

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EEC directive on water quality (1979)

Genre

Interview

Jill Lourie interviews Mike Berendt of the EEC London Office on a Brussels directive to test water quality and beaches for sea-bathing.

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Increase in London’s rat population (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Julie Benson reports on a 30 percent increase in London’s rat population since the beginning of 1989. Weil’s disease, spread by rat urine in water, is on the increase too especially in the Thames....

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Water Pollution

Date released

1970

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

575

NoS ID

328816

Story no

1 / 1

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Oil slick in the Gulf (1991)

Genre

News report; Interview

James Bays reports on the clean up operation of the oil slick in the Gulf caused by Iraq during the Gulf war. With comment from US Brigadier General Pat Stevens; manager of the UK oil spill centre in...

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Our kind of town (1980)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

This week’s edition of Our Kind of Town is presented by Keith Howell and investigates London’s sewage system. In the first part Manager of Thames Water’s Metropolitan Public Health Division, Les...

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Gulf war latest (1991)

Genre

Interview; News report; Press conference

Report on developments on the Gulf war as Iraq has released oil into the sea off Kuwait and Iraqi missiles hit Israel and Saudi Arabia again and Britain holds Iraqi prisoners of war. As well as causing...

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