Margaret Thatcher praises AA workers

Title

Margaret Thatcher praises AA workers

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

20 Jan 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:01:38

Description

Prime Minsiter Margaret Thatcher has visited the headquarters of the Automobile Association (AA) in Basingstoke to meet with staff who helped in the rescue work at the Clapham, Lockerbie and M1 disasters. AA patrolman Geoff Redmond describes his part in the M1 disaster, when he pulled the dead from vehicles. Thatcher praises the job done by rescue workers. Peter Henley reports.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Peter Henley; Geoff Redmond

Keywords

Accidents; Emergency services; AA; UK; Hampshire; Clapham Junction railway accident (1988); Basingstoke; Lockerbie bombing (1988); Kegworth air disaster (1989)

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