Fire fighters contest service cuts

Title

Fire fighters contest service cuts

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

5 Feb 1996

Year of production

1996

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Duration

00:02:44

Description

A hundred fire fighters told the Government today that cuts in funding for the Fire Service in London will put lives at risk. They handed in a petition with over a hundred thousand signatures at the Department of the Environment this morning. The capital’s fire authority says ministers have left it with no option but to shed hundreds of jobs, over twenty fire engines and four fire stations. Reporter Dominic Waghorn visited one of the stations under threat, at Manchester Square near Marble Arch. Here the station’s Fire Brigades Union representative, Sharon Southworth, tells him the proposed cuts were simply unacceptable.

Contributors

Dominic Waghorn; Sharon Southworth

Keywords

London; Government; Strikes; Labour disputes; Cost reduction; Public finance; Fire fighters; Fire services; Petitioning

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