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  1. High-speed Channel Tunnel link scrapped (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate

    Report by Kevin Murphy on the Government’s scrapping of plans to build a new high-speed rail link from the Channel Tunnel to London. Labour leader Neil Kinnock criticises the decision. Margaret Thatcher...

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  2. John Prescott on Lockerbie air disaster report (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Shadow Transport Secretary John Prescott on the findings of the official report into the Lockerbie air disaster. He welcomes the report, but says that it should have gone further on the...

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  3. Inquest into Clapham rail disaster deaths (1990)

    Genre
    News report

    Havovi Todd reports on the inquest into the deaths of 35 victims of the Clapham rail disaster. The jury decided they were unlawfully killed, but it appears there will be no charges. Labour’s Transport...

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  4. Kegworth air disaster report published (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Labour’s Transport Spokesman John Prescott welcomes the Air Accidents Investigation Branch report into the 1989 British Midland air crash on the M1 near Kegworth. He is concerned commercial factors are...

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  5. Herald of Free Enterprise trial collapses (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Simon Israel reports on the collapse of the manslaughter trial of P & O European Ferries and seven former employees, over the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. Includes reaction from Maurice de Rohan,...

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  6. U-turn on London roads scheme (1990)

    Genre
    Speech; Parliamentary debate

    Two linked clips about London road schemes from the House of Commons. 1. UK Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson announces a U-turn on the London Assessment Study which includes proposed road schemes that...

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  7. Robert Reid’s speech on railways provokes political storm (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    George Matheson reports on Labour Party claims that retiring British Rail Chairman Sir Robert Basil (Bob) Reid’s speech at the Chartered Institute of Transport contained an attack on the Government’s...

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  8. John Prescot on rail accident figures (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Labour Party transport spokesman John Prescott says the number of collisions into buffers has increased by nearly forty per cent over a period of ten years. Following the Cannon Street rail accident he says...

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  9. 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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  10. Prescott on Lockerbie bombing inquiry outcome (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with shadow transport spokesman, John Prescott, responding to an official fatal accident inquiry report into the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie killing 270 people on...

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