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Record 381 – 400 of 15384 news stories found.
Date |
Film Item Number |
Description |
Duration |
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| Tuesday 31/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | GVs of the Daily Star’s dummy run. Commag. Park. (Ali oov). | 0 mins 34 secs | |
| Thursday 2/11/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | GVs of a block of flats on the Sholver Council estate at Oldham, badly damaged by a series of gas blasts. Mute. Stephens. (John oov). | 4 mins 46 secs | |
| Friday 3/11/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Film of a meeting of workers from the Ford’s Halewood plant, at which they unanimously voted to reject the company’s pay deal. Commag. Stephens. (John oov). | 0 mins 30 secs | |
| Monday 11/12/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, talking to Industry Minister, Alan Williams, during his last visit to KME, and to Jack Spriggs, the worker-director. Commag. Higginson. | 3 mins 13 secs | |
| Thursday 27/12/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Film of damage caused by gale force winds throughout the region. Mute. Park. (Stu oov). | 0 mins 40 secs | |
| Monday 4/12/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Film of the aftermath of a raid on Post Office van in Liverpool. Mute. Ward. (David oov). | 0 mins 45 secs | |
| Tuesday 19/12/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Steve Ireland, snf, reporting on the utter chaos on the motorways because of thick fog. Commag. Park/ Stephens. (Steve oov) | 0 mins 55 secs | |
| Wednesday 1/11/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Film of the dummy run of the Daily Star presses and of the Daily Express newsroom - half of which has now been taken over by the Star Journalists. sepmag. Park | 1 mins 37 secs | |
| Monday 30/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, reporting on the first day of British Midlands Airways takeover of Liverpool Airport. He spoke to Michael Bishop, Managing Director of British Midland Airways and Ken Burlington, Chairman of Merseyside Airport Committee. Sepmag/Commag. Higginson. | 3 mins 13 secs | |
| Friday 27/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Steve Ireland, snf, reporting on the end of a dramatic chase through Derbyshire, which ended in Buxton town centre with the arrest of a man wanted for the murder of four people. He spoke to the policemen involved and some bystanders. Sepmag / commag. Park. | 2 mins 50 secs | |
| Thursday 26/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, reporting on the first day of British Midlands Airways takeover of Liverpool Airport. He spoke to Michael Bishop, Managing Director of British Midland Airways and Ken Burlington, Chairman of Merseyside Airport Committee. Sepmag / Commag. Higginson. | 3 mins 13 secs | |
| Wednesday 25/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | GVs cleaning and re-painting of buildings etc. in Bolton, where the Council has more than £200, 00 to spend on cleaning up eye sore sites and buildings. Stephens. Mute. Mute. (John oov) | 0 mins 20 secs | |
| Tuesday 24/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | David Davies, snf talking to John Robinson of Winsford, one of Cheshire’s leading farmers, about the ballot for or against the future of the Milk Marketing Board IF 80% of of our dairy farmers say they want it kept. Cheshire is one of the largest milk producing counties in the country - and the vote here will will be crucial. Stephens. sepmag. (David oov) | 3 mins 02 secs | |
| Monday 23/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | felicity Goodey, snf, reporting on the continuing effects of the hospital supervisors’ stirke - especially at Wythenshawe Hospital, where 5 day wards and the operating theatre are closed. Patients are being turned away to keep vital linen and sterilised instruments available for emergency cases. | 0 mins 0 secs | |
| Friday 20/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Richard Duckenfield, reporting on the clearing of the Lancashire Evening Post - accused of interfering in the investigation into the conduct of Stanley Parr, the County’s former Chief Constable - by the Press Council. The Council decided that its story, leaking a confidential report, was in the public interest. Richard spoke to Howard Ballance, Chairman of Lancashire Police Committee, and to Barry Askew, Editor of the Lancashire Evening Post. Higginson. Commag. (Richard oov: 32’’) | 3 mins 58 secs | |
| Thursday 19/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to Harry Bentham of the North British Housing Association, about the proposed sale of “The Piggeries”. Members of Liverpool’s housing Committee have now reduced to three the number of potential buyers to restore the properties - they’re being asked to give a full account of their restoration ideas . It’s considered that it would be more expensive to destroy the flats than to sell them to be restored. Higginson. Sepmag / Commag | 4 mins 27 secs | |
| Wednesday 18/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | GVs Merseyside and Greater Manchester Transport - trains and buses. BBC Stock. Mute. (David oov) | 1 mins 29 secs | |
| Tuesday 17/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to Father Stanslaw Kluz, Chaplain of the International Students’ Club at Aigburth in Liverpool, who was twice imprisoned by the Polish Communist Government, and who studied with the new Pope - John Paul II, formerly Karol Wojtyla. Ward. Mute/Commag. (Stu art oov: 24’’) | 3 mins 06 secs | |
| Monday 16/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to Michael Callory, Deputy Dircteor of Highways in Cheshire, about the County Council’s request to the Government to extend the M57 motorway by three miles to ease congestion on Birchfield Road, Widnes, which is one of the most hazardous roads in the North West. Higginson. Sepmag / Commag. | 3 mins 22 secs | |
| Friday 13/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, reporting on the emergency at Manchester’s International Airport, when an Air India Jumbo 747 signalled that he was in trouble - the flight was diverted to Manchester because of fog at Heathrow. There was a fire in the baggage hold. There were no casualties, apart from some friction burns for some of the passengers who were evacuated using escape chutes. Felicity spoke to Steve Macdonald - the Airport spokesman, and to passenger Lois Evans. Park. Commag. (Felicity oov) | 3 mins 34 secs | |
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