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  1. Channel Tunnel rail link route decided (1991)

    Genre
    Speech; Vox pop; Interview; News report

    Report by Sue Flipping on the announcement by Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind (excerpt from speech at Conservative party conference in Blackpool heard) that the Channel Tunnel rail link will go through...

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  2. EC steps in over transport construction projects (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind rejects the order by the European Commissioner for the Environment that work on the Channel Tunnel rail link and 6 other key transport projects should cease as EC...

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  3. Cannon Street rail crash (1991)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Press conference

    Emma Howard reports on the events surrounding the rail crash at Cannon Street station in London, caused by failed brakes. Chief Superintendent Daniel O’Brian(?) reveals one person died and 247 were...

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  4. Conservative conference - Look back at main events (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Ceri Thomas reports from Blackpool at the end of the Conservative Party conference where John Major has delivered his maiden speech as leader and Prime Minister. He reviews the main events during the week....

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  5. Malcolm Rifkind on BR passenger charter (1992)

    Genre
    Interview

    Secretary of State for Transport, Malcolm Rifkind, talks to James Bays about the new British Rail passengers charter which sets low goals for service standard and whether extra money should be allocated to...

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  6. New French and German army corps (1992)

    Genre
    Interview

    UK Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind on his concerns over the new French and German army corps and their relationship with NATO. He also says NATO troops can play a peacekeeping role in Europe. Chief...

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  7. Fourth trident submarine contract (1992)

    Genre
    Speech

    Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind announces the fourth Trident Nuclear Submarine contract has been awarded to Vickers’ shipyard at Barrow in Furness securing fifteen hundred jobs.

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  8. Rifkind on Euro-Fighter aircraft (1992)

    Genre
    Interview

    Des Fahy interviews UK Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, after a meeting of European defence ministers in Madrid about the Euro-Fighter aircraft, hindered by Germany’s insistence it wants to pull out of...

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  9. Rifkind on Iraqi no-fly zone (1992)

    Genre
    Interview

    Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind hopes the exclusion zone set up by the USA, and its allies the UK and France, in Southern Iraq will prove as successful as the one set up in Northern Iraq (in reducing human...

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  10. Parliamentary response to coalition air strikes on Iraq (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate

    Political correspondent Kevin Murphy reports on the Parliamentary response to coalition air strikes on military targets in southern Iraq. Includes Commons speeches by Prime Minister John Major and Defence...

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