Storm damage in UK
- Title
- Storm damage in UK
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:01:36
- Description
- Report on former Education Secretary Kenneth Baker visiting a school in Swindon where a little girl was killed and others injured after a roof collapsed during the hurricane strength storms, and his speech outside the school praising the rescue operation (excerpt heard). Also on how electricity is still out in many places with comment from Southern Electric Chairman Duncan Ross. And on an elderly birdwatcher being trapped in a forest during the storm. Female reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Kenneth Baker; Duncan Ross
- Keywords
- Deaths; Storms; Winds; Damage; Electricity; Electricity supply; Schools; Natural disasters; Rescue work; Visits; Schoolchildren; Search and rescue operations; Swindon; Southern Electric; Roofs
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