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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: Wednesday 30/11/1977
Production Date
Wednesday 30/11/1977
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 : vtc/6st/nw/7748/5/mr : Nick Clarke, snf, reporting on the visit of the Chinese Delegation led by Mr Tseng Sheng, the Vice-Minister of Communications in China, to the North West. He spoke (on 16mm film) to Sydney Shenton, Director of Adamson Containers at Reddish, near Stockport. Commag. Park. 93ft 2m 28s Nick also spoke to Dennis Arandale, Deputy Chairman of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce in the studio. 2m 05s Total vt dur : 4m 39s
vtc/6st/nw7747/7/mr : Alistair Macdonald, snf, talking to Philip Preston for the third item in the series on making wooden toys. This week “Carlo” the cargo-boat. 3m 52s
On Wednesday 30/11/1977 there were 7 news stories transmitted.
Film Item Number
Description
Duration
(news descriptions are taken directly from BBC's Programme as Broadcast sheets.)
1
Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to Terry Fields about the move of the soldiers who’ve so far been stationed at Park Street Drill Hall in Bootle - known as the Cockroach Hilton - into a nearby maternity hospital. Higginson. Commag.
2 mins 46 secs
2
GVs house in Stretford damaged by fire, where a man died this afternoon. Park. Mute. (John oov)
0 mins 20 secs
3
GVs nursing home in Westwood Road, Bolton, where the matron has been charged with manslaughter of an 81 year old woman patient. Park. Mute. (John oov)
0 mins 20 secs
4
GVs Mayor of Bury opening an engineering design department at the firm of Beloit Walmsley, which has just won a £9 million order for equipment for a paper board mill at Gdansk. Park. Mute. (John oov)
0 mins 28 secs
5
GVs police search for a 3 year old boy who disappeared from his home at Wigan yesterday - they were scouring the Leeds and Liverpool canal. The boys body was found later in a lock basin. Park. Mute. (John oov)
0 mins 18 secs
6
GVs colony of gulls at Abbeystead near Lancaster, where the N.W. Water Authority is asking for a licence to reduce the number of gulls, which could present a danger to health. BBC Stock. Mute. (John oov)
0 mins 15 secs
7
Frank Mellor reporting on the problems facing resorts like Morecambe, where old age pensioners gravitate to retire - stretching medical facilities almost to breaking point. He spoke to Dr John Dyer, District Physician, Len and Dorothy Wood, and Donal Waddell, Chief Executive for Morecambe and Lancaster. McDairmant. Sepmag.
