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Record 401 – 420 of 15384 news stories found.
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Description |
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| Thursday 12/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Steve Ireland, snf, reporting on the Indian Summer that has hit the North West, and finding out from Graham Kidd, the senior forecaster at the Manchester Meteorological Office, how long the warm spell is likely to last. Commag. Stephens. (Steve oov 1’15) | 2 mins 58 secs | |
| Wednesday 11/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Steve Ireland, snf, reporting on the latest developments in the investigation into the Liverpool car bomb last week. The Merseyside police have set up a mobile incident room in the Everton district following the explosion when Mr. Stanley Baxter turned the ignition in his car. Steve spoke to the Deputy Head of Merseyside CID, Superintendent Ken Anderson. Stephens. Commag. (Steve oov:1’00’’) | 2 mins 37 secs | |
| Tuesday 10/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to the Liverpool Social Workers’ Union Chairman, Graham Burgess, about the background to their decision to go on strike over a regrading claim. Higginson. Sepmag / Commag. | 2 mins 54 secs | |
| Monday 9/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to James Fitzpatrick about the Government’s approval of the construction of a new freightliner terminal at the Royal Seaforth Dock - and the boost it will give to the Port of Liverpool. Higginson. Sepmag / Commag | 3 mins 13 secs | |
| Friday 6/10/1978 | Programme Details | 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 | |
| Thursday 5/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Nick Clarke, snf, talking to Leyland Union Convenor Dave Hewitt about allegations in the Leyland Guardian that the new pay deal Accepted by the workers ignores the Government’s pay policy. Stephens. Commag. | 3 mins 43 secs | |
| Wednesday 4/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Nick Clarke, snf, talking to Professor Douglas Haigh, of the Manchester Business School, Chairman of the working party looking into ways in which KM.E. can be saved. Nick also spoke to Jack Spriggs about the situation - they are hoping to save the jobs of 750 people. | 3 mins 59 secs | |
| Tuesday 3/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, talking to headmaster of the County Primary School at Holmes Chapel, Gordon Foster, about the lightning strike of their canteen staff, and how parents and teachers oped with the problem of feeding 380 children. She also spoke to NUPE area officer John Dempsey about how the union justifies a strike which penalises children. Park. Commag. (Felicity oov: 1’00’’) | 4 mins 43 secs | |
| Monday 2/10/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | GVs gas terminal at Theddlethorpe in Lincolnshire. BBC Stock. Mute. (Nick oov) | 0 mins 35 secs | |
| Friday 29/9/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Nick Clarke, snf, reporting on the decision by most of the 3000 Transport Union members at Vauxhalls to instruct their leaders to negotiate a better deal with the comapny instead of taking strike action. He spoke to John Turnbull, A.U.E.W. Convenor about the decision - although there could still be action by the workers if an agreeable pay rate is not reached. Ward. Commag. (Nick oov) | 2 mins 04 secs | |
| Thursday 28/9/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Nick Clarke, snf, reporting on the sit-in at Plessey’s telecommunications firm, Edge Lane. He spoke to Doug Mollard, TASS representative, about the sit-in and the cause of it - a possible 600 more redundancies. Ward. Commag. (Nick oov 1’00’’) | 2 mins 43 secs | |
| Wednesday 27/9/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | MANCHESTER VT: A839/4: Social workers in Cheshire staging a one-day strike in support of national action over pay - pickets were out in Warrington. Ward. Mute. (John oov) | 0 mins 20 secs | |
| Tuesday 26/9/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Alistair Macdonald, snf, reporting on the demonstration by Chorley residents in protest that the town’s hospital no longer has a 24-hour-a-day emergency service. The protest was directed at David Ennals, the Health Minister, who is on a tour of the North West Hospitals. The case for the emergency service was put by Jo Smeaton, Secretary of the Chorley Hospital Crusade, and she was answered by Mr Ennals, although he wouldn’t give any firm promises about round-the-clock emergency cover. Park. Commag. (Alistair oov) | 4 mins 11 secs | |
| Monday 25/9/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Views of Greater Manchester Transport and Merseyside Transport - following the announcement that GMT loses at least a million pounds a year through fare dodgers - possibly the true figure could be two million. BBC Stock. Commag actuality. (Alistair oov) | 0 mins 40 secs | |
| Friday 22/9/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | David Davies, snf, talking to Richard Prestt, Managing Director of the German owned Bauer (Great Britain) Ltd. of Winsford, about their policy of not employing former employees of two neighbouring firms, as announced in their job advertisement for 200 men. The advertisement in the Job Centre was displayed by mistake, but the understanding is there that now men from these firms will be employed. Park Commag. (David oov: 1’00’’) | 4 mins 39 secs | |
| Friday 15/9/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, talking to Gracie Fields on the eve of her gala concert in the theatre named after her in Rochdale. Sepmag. Stephens. | 6 mins 04 secs | |
| Thursday 14/9/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, talking to Dr. Alistair Ironside, a consultant physician at Monsall Isolation Hospital, to which a medical professor has just been admitted with suspected Legionnaire’s Disease. Commag. Leeds Crew. | 3 mins 27 secs | |
| Wednesday 13/9/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, reporting on a new technique being pioneered by the British Livestock Comapny at their dairy unit in Parbold, which could revolutionise the breeding of livestock, particularly dairy cattle. She spoke to vet Ian Paton, who described how it’s done. Sepmag / Commag. Park. | 4 mins 29 secs | |
| Tuesday 12/9/1978 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, reporting on further developments in the case of Lancashire’s handicapped people. Today a union deputation went from Rossendale to Lancashire County Council to see the Chairman of the Social Services Committee, Dr David Murray. Felicity talked to him and one of the disabled people, John Comer. Sepmag. Stephens. | 4 mins 36 secs | |
| Thursday 1/11/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Film of a demonstration by council tenants from Beswick in Manchester over the conditions of their homes. Mute. P. Stephens. (John oov) | 0 mins 15 secs | |
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