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BBC North West Regional News Material 1973-1986: Programme Details
Record 1 – 10 of 10 news stories found.
Further details for Look North West: Friday 6/10/1978
Production Date
Friday 6/10/1978
Introduced By
Stuart Hall
Producer
John McManus
Newsreader
John Mundy
Studio-based and videotape material in this programme (not usually held at the NWFA but please enquire)
MANCHESTER VT: RNW A840/9: Nick Clarke, snf, talking to Phil Asquith, a member of the Lucas National Committee which has drawn up a plan which would enable Lucas Aerospace Group to make socially useful products like kidney machines and pollution free engines - and so save 1500 jobs on Merseyside. The Labour Party Conference have the plan its wholehearted backing today in Blackpool. Extract from Labour Party Conference in Blackpool. 3’31’’
STUDIO INTERVIEW: Alistair Macdonald, snf, talking to Frank Murphy, Mersey Region Information Officer for Health, about the national pay dispute by supervisory engineers. Supervisors are refusing to repair machinery - and bed linen and operating theatre equipment are badly affected. They may even have to stop operations in Merseyside and Cheshire because of lack of equipment. 2’40’’
On Friday 6/10/1978 there were 10 news stories transmitted.
Film Item Number
Description
Duration
(news descriptions are taken directly from BBC's Programme as Broadcast sheets.)
1
Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to Stanley Baxter, 44-year-old member of an Orange Lodge in Liverpool, who escaped with minor injuries when a car bomb exploded as he started the ignition in his car. Higginson. Sepmag. (Richard oov: 30’’)
2 mins 23 secs
2
Press Conference given by Ken Oxford, Chief Constable, Merseyside Police, about the car bomb. Higginson. Commag.
1 mins 30 secs
3
GVs linen being burnt at Greaves Hall Hospital, nr. Southport. As it’s a long-stay hospital more linen gets used - and it is badly hit by the engineers’ dispute. Stephens. Mute. (Alistair oov)
0 mins 30 secs
4
GVs police handing out Bengali and Urdu leaflets appealing for information about the murder of Mrs Nimraji Bibi. Park. Mute. (John oov)
0 mins 22 secs
5
GVs meeting of Ford Workers at the South Liverpool football ground near the Halewood plant - the first mass meeting since they walked out over a week ago after hearing they’d been offered a five per cent pay rise. They carried a vote of confidence in their national joint committee. Ward. Mute. (John oov)
0 mins 20 secs
6
GVs Gairfield High School at Widnes, which was closed for the day due to a strike by NUPE workers in the campaign against cold “ploughman’s lunches” for school children. Ward. Mute. (John oov)
0 mins 20 secs
7
GVs of the Zambian National Soccer team arriving at Ringway Airport this morning for its first ever tour of this country. Park. Mute. (John oov)
0 mins 18 secs
8
Anglo-American exhibition at Norbury Church, Hazel Grove, which includes the portrait of the first Governor of North Carolina - Edward Hyde of Norbury Hall. Park. Mute. (John oov)
0 mins 22 secs
9
Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to Eric Poocock, Manager of Belle Vue Speedway track, and to Peter Collins, one of the top riders from Lymm, about the revival of interest in Speedway - now the nation’s number two spectator sport. Higginson. Sepmag.
4 mins 05 secs
10
Felicity Goodey, snf, talking to Ray Rush, a Cheshire farmer, about the decorations of his local church - Siddington, near Alderley Edge. Every year, for Harvest Festival, he transforms the church with one of his talents - corn dollies.
