1 o’clock news with end of Soviet Union

Title

1 o’clock news with end of Soviet Union

Genre

News report; Interview; Tribute; News bulletin

TX Date

5 Sep 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:04:06

Description

Philip Cottrell reads the IRN 1 o’clock news with top story the vote to end the Soviet Union by the Congress of People’s Deputies- Sue Jameson reports from Moscow on the political changes. Other stories include: IRA bombs in Belfast; university lecturer in Belfast being shot in the back; Conservative Party Chairman Chris Patten refusing to rule out a general election (interview); death of Jean Rook, newspaper columnist with her editor Nick Lloyd paying tribute; 30 picnickers feared drowned in India due to a flash flood; changing of Britain’s dialling codes with Director-General of Telecommunications at BT, Bryan Carsberg explaining the proposals.

Contributors

Chris Patten; Sue Jameson; Bryan Carsberg; Nicholas Lloyd; Paul Cottrell

Keywords

Deaths; Elections; Politics; India; Northern Ireland; USSR; IRA; Political reform; Telephone; General elections; Bombs; Belfast; Moscow; Mikhail Gorbachev; Federalism; Jean Rook; Flooding

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