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Customs officers are on strike. Garry Turvey of the Freight Transport Association says the strikes are causing enormous damage, particularly to the country’s export contracts. He says the customs officers...
Lynne Mennie interviews John Newman, leader of NUMAST, who says his members are being made scapegoats for the Zeebrugge tragedy following the decision to prosecute three ferrymen for manslaughter relating to...
Eve Conway interviews Maurice de Rohan, chairman of the Herald of Free Enterprise Families Association, on the announcement that the P & O shipping company is being prosecuted for manslaughter over the...
Claire Dalton reports from Hull on the failing docks strike as workers chose to go back to work despite the protestations of Liverpool flying pickets (heard shouting). The original reason for the dispute -...
Interview with Nicholas Finney, director of the National Association of Port Employers, about the three-week-old docks strike. The original reason for the dispute - the scrapping of the National Docks Labour...
Interview with Peter Spooner, who lost his son, Martin Spooner, in the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (06/03/87), about a meeting with Ministry of Transport officials over ferry safety. Peter...
Interview with TGWU leader, Ron Todd, following the ending of the national docks strike. The surprise decision came this afternoon during crisis talks as more and more dockers returned to work. The union’s...
Simon Israel reports on the official end of the national dock strike. Angry striking dockers are preparing to defy their union leaders’ call to go back to work and they’re accusing the TGWU executive of...
Press interview with TGWU leader, Ron Todd, in Middlesborough, on the official end of the national dock strike. Angry striking dockers are preparing to defy their union leaders’ call to go back to work and...
Stuart Thomas reports on an accident in the port of Ramsgate, Kent, when a ferry gangway collapsed. Health and safety executives have launched an investigation after six people died and seven were injured....
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