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BBC North West Regional News Material 1973-1986: Programme Details
Record 1 – 7 of 7 news stories found.
Further details for Look North West: Thursday 11/8/1977
Production Date
Thursday 11/8/1977
Introduced By
David Davies
Producer
Steve Ireland
Newsreader
Christine Burn
Studio-based and videotape material in this programme (not usually held at the NWFA but please enquire)
MANCHESTER VT: VTC/6ST/NW7732/5/MR:
Alistair Macdonald, snf, with a report on 14 year old Deborah Allsopp from Nelson who has benn missing from her home for a week and is believed to be somewhere in France trying to find her boyfriend. Duration: 1’ 02”.
STUDIO: Nick Clarke, snf, talking to Mike Noble, MP for Rossendale about the struggle for survival in the textile industry in the North West in the face of low cost imports. Duration:2’ 44”.
On Thursday 11/8/1977 there were 7 news stories transmitted.
Film Item Number
Description
Duration
(news descriptions are taken directly from BBC's Programme as Broadcast sheets.)
1
Nick Clarke, snf, reporting on the setting up of a new textile firm at Summerseat just a year after the previous owners decided the mill had come to the end of its working life. He spoke to the man who is behind it all - David Kay. Mute:23”, Commag:3’ 49”. Selwood. (Nick oov -2’ 14”).
4 mins 13 secs
2
Film of a train vandalised by fans of Bolton Wanderers Football Club returning from a match at Blackburn, and of damage caused by a fire at the Lancashire United Transport Garage in Swinton. Mute. Park. (Chris oov).
0 mins 48 secs
3
Film of the new Liverpool player, Kenny Dalglish, in training. Mute. Ward. (Chris oov).
0 mins 20 secs
4
GV’s of a preview of the Morecombe Illuminations. Mute. Stringer. (Chris oov).
0 mins 25 secs
5
Richard Duckenfield, snf, showing us around his favourite part of the region-Liverpool 8. Sepmag. Higginson.
3 mins 23 secs
6
David Davies, snf, talking to Ann Coates, captain of the Lancashire womens cricket team-who has been chosen as one of the reserves for a World Cup series in India next winter-and watching her in action at St. Annes. Sepmag. Stephens. (David oov -1’21”)
3 mins 50 secs
7
Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to Tom Smith, who retired as Liverpool’s Senior Social Work Advisor for Mental Health in June and who claims that abuse of the 1959 Mental Health Act has meant people with problems being detained in psychiatric hospitals illegally are to be investigated by Social Services officials in Liverpool. commag. Higginson.
