21.00 IRN news

Title

21.00 IRN news

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop; Speech; News bulletin

TX Date

2 Sep 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:03:06

Description

IRN 21.00 news with Roger Walker on US recognition of the Baltic States (with statement by US President George H W Bush); shooting of demonstrators in Republic of Georgia; Prime Minister John Major’s trip to China; policemen being stabbed in London; riots on Blackbird Leys Oxford estate by joyriding youths (with report by Helen Costello including comment from Oxford MP Andrew Smith and locals on estate); BT job cuts; cocaine seizure at Heathrow Airport.

Contributors

Andrew Smith; George H. W. Bush; Roger Walker; Helen Costello

Keywords

USA; London; Heathrow Airport; Political protests; USSR; China; International relations; Drug traffic; Employment; Adolescents; Riots; Political reform; Illegal drugs; Police personnel; State visits; Foreign policy; Assault; Independence; Cocaine; Georgia; Juvenile delinquency; Oxford; Antisocial behaviour; Residential estates; Joyriding; Latvia; British Telecom; Lithuania; Baltic States; Estonia; Blackbird Leys; Tibilisi

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