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  1. Network (1981)

    Genre
    Documentary

    Metro Radio Manchester presents The Hartley Colliery Disaster, a look back at the 1862 mining disaster at Hartley Colliery, Northumberland in which over 200 miners died.

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  2. Miners strike - Background to dispute (1984)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Vox pop

    Mark Easton provides background information on the miners’ dispute. He explains that when Ian MacGregor was made head of the National Coal Board, he brought with him plans that would change the mining...

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  3. Mining unions (1986)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on mining unions, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM). Includes interviews with Arthur Scargill, NUM, talking about workers who were sacked for...

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  4. Lockerbie bombing-debris as far as Northumberland (1988)

    Genre
    News report

    Duncan Wood reports on the aftermath of the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland (21/12/88). Debris from the explosion six miles up in the night sky has been raining down on...

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  5. Dolphin sex act case (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Report on the court case against Alan Cooper who was accused of fondling a dolphin, called Freddy, in Amble Harbour, Northumberland and the controversy surrounding the main witness’s relationship with the...

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  6. Paul Gascoigne assaults 2 men (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    John Beach on footballer Paul Gascoigne attacking him and others. Gascoigne was charged with assaulting two men in a brawl outside a restaurant, at Blyth police station in Northumberland on 19/08/91.

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  7. Three more pits to close (1994)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Mychaela(?) Stevenson(?) reports on the news that three more coal pits are to be closed. National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) branch treasurer Jim Sawyer says the average age of workers at Ellington in...

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  8. Robin Cook on pit closures (1994)

    Genre
    Interview

    Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary, Robin Cook condemns the closure of a further three coal mines. He says the pits closed this week are profitable but the Government have created a market that does not...

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