New Year celebrations in London - Restrictions mean fewer arrests

Title

New Year celebrations in London - Restrictions mean fewer arrests

Genre

News report; Vox pop; Music

TX Date

1 Jan 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:04:29

Description

Ian Fenn reports from the New Year celebrations in Trafalgar Square, London, where the new tight restrictions on revellers saw just fifty-four arrests, twenty-nine of them for drunkenness, as a huge crowd gathered to see in 1994. The ambulance service says a dozen people needed medical attention but no-one was seriously hurt. Ninety thousand people, ten thousand fewer than in the previous year, packed into the Square to celebrate. Includes vox pop (including street seller named Lee Harding(?)); crowd noise; missing persons announcement; bagpipe music; fireworks; car horns.

Contributors

Ian Fenn; Lee Harding(?)

Keywords

London; Celebrations; New Year; Trafalgar Square

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