Fire at Deptford warehouse

Title

Fire at Deptford warehouse

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Jun 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:01:35

Description

Bruce Matthews, spokesman for News International, criticises the behaviour of sacked printers, which (he says) included assaulting people coming in to work. He says he believes that any one of them would have been capable of starting the fire in the newspaper warehouse. Female interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Bruce Matthews

Keywords

London; Strikes; Labour disputes; Crime; Fires; Deptford; Arson; Wapping; News International; Printers; Warehouses

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