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Simon Israel reports on Austin Rover announcing that 3,500 jobs are to be axed over the next three years at South Cowley and Llanelli and speculation it could be linked to the takeover by British...
Interview with Michael Meacher, Labour Party employment spokesman, who is launching a campaign against the closure of weapons factories by British Aerospace with massive loss of jobs. He says the company...
Interview with Trade and Industry Secretary, Lord Young (David Young) on a hostile takeover bid for Scottish and Newcastle breweries by Elders IXL, the makers of Fosters lager. The bid has been referred to...
Another bitter takeover battle involving two of Britain’s electronics giants is looming in the city. GEC is making another attempt to buy up Plessey, just two years after it was blocked by the Monopoly...
Trade and Industry Secretary, Lord Young (David Young) confirms that the joint takeover bid by GEC and Siemens for the Plessey company, which supplies electronics to the Ministry of Defence, will be referred...
John Fraser interviews European Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan, who has ordered an inquiry under common market law into the proposed takeover of Plessey by GEC and Siemens. The commissioner argues that the...
Peter Spencer reports on the Government’s reaction to the Harrods affair: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s growing concern over how Mohamed Al-Fayed acquired Harrods over the Lonrho group; the leaking...
Observer editor Donald Trelford on the leaked Harrods report that found its way to his newspaper, but which he cannot publish because of an injunction. He says anyone would have published it. Female...
Linda Duffin reports on how Lonrho was refused permission by the High Court to give MPs copies of the confidential government report on the Harrods takeover. Lonrho director Paul Spicer calls it outrageous;...
Trade Secretary Lord Young (David Young) talks about the leaked Harrods report: how there are a few thousand copies around, whether they can get an unbiased jury, the possibility of a prosecution, whether...
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