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BBC North West Regional News Material 1973-1986: Programme Details
Record 1 – 1 of 1 news stories found.
Further details for Look North West: Thursday 30/1/1986
Production Date
Thursday 30/1/1986
Introduced By
Stuart Hall and John Mundy
Producer
Olwyn Hocking
Newsreader
Studio-based and videotape material in this programme (not usually held at the NWFA but please enquire)
MANCHESTER VT 1/RNW A604S/13:
Alistair Macdonald, snf, reporting on journalists on the Express and Daily Star newspapers who are meeting to decide what to do about a management plan to reduce the workforce by about one-third. PSC. Park. He spoke to Malcom Pain, National Union of Journalists.
TOTAL VT DUR: 01m35s
MANCHESTER VT 1/RNW A604S/14:
Paul Newman, snf, reporting on the end of the inquest into the death of Jason Fitzsimmons. He died from non-dependent abuse of drugs, mainly sleeping pills. He spoke to Roy Barter, Merseyside Coroner. Inc. PSC. Higginson. 00m28s
TOTAL VT DUR: 00m53s
MANCHESTER VT 1/RNW A604S/15:
Stuart Hall with an introduction to the Private Life of Lynda Chalker, who has a growing reputation in the male bastion, the House of Commons. But she says she’s learnt to combine being a busy politician with family life. 09ft 00m15s Inc. Lib PSC and Lib TK. 00m45s
TOTAL VT DUR: 05m45s
MANCHESTER VT 1/RNW A604S/16:
Martin Henfield, snf, reporting on the Palace Panto which proves to be the most successful in the country. PSC. Park. He spoke to Forbes Cameron, Publicity Director. 02m49s
TOTAL VT DUR: 00m54s
PSC:
1. Alistair Macdonald, snf, on a charity like Falconaide in North Lancashire, who manages to rescue injured birds of prey and returns about forty each year to the wild. He spoke to Allan Oswald -Falconaide. PSC. Magpie. 02m46s
2. John Mundy ooving over PSC of a firm in Merseyside who have been fined a thousand punds for not taking proper safety precautions during demolition work. A fifty year old man died and a colleague was seriously injured. Both men worked for C.R. Massie. PSC. Higginson. 00m20s
On Thursday 30/1/1986 there were 1 news stories transmitted.
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(news descriptions are taken directly from BBC's Programme as Broadcast sheets.)
[Unknown. See studio-based and videotape material for this programme in ‘programme details’]
