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Record 641 – 660 of 15384 news stories found.
Date |
Film Item Number |
Description |
Duration |
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| Tuesday 7/2/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Film of a demonstration at the Altcar hare-coursing event near Formby. Commag. Higginson. (John oov) | 0 mins 25 secs | |
| Wednesday 6/2/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Alistair Macdonald, snf, reporting on the effects the frost has had on the region’s road, and speaking to Mike Senior, the Assistant Director for road maintenance in Cheshire. Commag. Stephens. | 4 mins 02 secs | |
| Monday 5/2/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | David Davies, snf, reporting on the end of the gravediggers strikes in Liverpool and Tameside. He spoke to Union official, Stan Kelly. Commag. Higginson/Park. | 3 mins 53 secs | |
| Friday 2/2/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Alistair Macdonald, snf, reporting on the ending of the Merseyside lorry drivers dispute. He spoke to the Chairman of the Strike Committee, Jimmy Goldbourne, and to the Managing Director of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, James Fitzpatrick. Commag. Higginson. | 3 mins 43 secs | |
| Thursday 1/2/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Film of workers in a micro-electronics factory. Mute. BBC Stock. (Fel oov) | 0 mins 29 secs | |
| Wednesday 31/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, reporting on the enormous queue of lorries at the Winsford Salt Mine, following the removal of the picket line there. She spoke to the Mine Manager, Tom Willington, and to some of the drivers. Commag. Ward. | 3 mins 39 secs | |
| Tuesday 30/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, reporting on the problems in our hospitals, particularly the shortage of linen. She spoke to the Senior Administrator of the North Manchester General, Bob Townsend and the Chairman of the NWRHA, Sidney Hamburger. Commag. Park. | 3 mins 21 secs | |
| Monday 29/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | David Davies, snf, reporting on the effects of all the strikes on hospitals in the Manchester area. He spoke to the Administrator at Withington Hospital, Clive Bath. Mute/Commag. Park. | 2 mins 24 secs | |
| Thursday 25/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, reports on an important effect of the picketting of chemicals firms such as ICI and Shell. That is the possible drying up of supplies of drugs such as antibiotics and tranquillisers because the basic chemicals needed to make the drugs into digestible form are not getting through to drug manufacturers. Felicity talks to Andrew Blenkinsop of Ward Blenkinsop, and to shop steward Michael Murray. Commag. Higginson. Fel. oov. | 3 mins 12 secs | |
| Wednesday 24/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Stuart Hall reporting on an incident at Upper Stanhope Street Ambulance station where wires were cut and a senior officer’s car was badly vandalised. Park. Mute. Stuart oov. | 0 mins 20 secs | |
| Friday 26/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Jim Hancock, snf, reporting on the crisis at Fazackerley Hospital in Liverpool caused by a walkout of NUPE members. He spoke to the Hospital Secretary, Bob Pilkington. Commag. Park. | 2 mins 28 secs | |
| Monday 2/3/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, reporting on the effect industrial action is having on hospitals in Liverpool. Sepmag/Commag. Higginson. | 4 mins 37 secs | |
| Monday 22/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, reporting from an Old People’s Home in Wirral, Cheshire, about the effects of the strike by local authority, health and social service workers on the home and others like it, and the help they’ve been getting in the crisis. Sepmag/Commag. Higginson. | 3 mins 55 secs | |
| Friday 19/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Dick Duckenfield, snf, reporting on the latest Merseyside closure involving more than 2000 workers, at the Dunlop Tyre factory at Speke. He talks to Arthur Todd, Chairman of the joint engineering Unions shop stewards. Commag. Higginson. Richard oov. | 3 mins 37 secs | |
| Thursday 18/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | David Davies, snf, and Jim Hancock, snf, reporting on the problems facing housewives with their shopping because of the shortages of various foods. Jim spoke to the General Manager of Makro wholesalers in Eccles, Jack Bright, and David to the Manager of Tescos in Sale, Roy Phillips. Commag. Ward/Park. | 5 mins 58 secs | |
| Wednesday 17/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | David Davies, snf, talking to three women from Mossley, near Ashton-under-Lyne, who dug a trench down to a burst water main so that a private plumber - Gerald Fitzgerald - could fix it. Sepmag. Park. | 3 mins 45 secs | |
| Tuesday 16/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, reporting from Cheshire, where are calls to make it a strike free zone. She spoke to a TGWU senior branch official, Par Tyrrell and to Peter Thomasson of Thomassons Transport, a meat haulage company. Commag. Park. | 4 mins 04 secs | |
| Monday 15/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, reporting on the worsening effects of the lorry driver’s strike. She spoke to Rodney Corrie, Chairman of the Regional Emergency Committee, and Alistair Macdonald, snf, spoke to Jacson Moore, General Secretary of the United Road Transport Union. Commag. Park. | 6 mins 12 secs | |
| Friday 12/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, reporting on the effects of the water strike. She spoke to the Water Board shop steward Jack Seddon. Commag. Park. | 1 mins 43 secs | |
| Thursday 11/1/1979 | Programme Details | 1 | Felicity Goodey, snf, reporting on the effects of the lorry drivers strike - especially on firms that are being picketted. Mute. Ward/BBC Stock. (Fel oov) | 1 mins 09 secs | |
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