Accession Number

B476

Series Title

LOOK NORTH

Programme Title

[BLUE CIRCLE AWARDS]

Producer

[Unknown]

Other Credits

[Unknown]

Transmission Date

01/01/83

colour , sound+sound (sep), 23 mins 18 secs

Synopsis

Felicity Goodey reports from paper manufacturers Wiggin Teape on the company's financial difficulties due to cheap imports. There are general views of workers in the factory and a Wiggan Teape spokesman is interviewed about the company's problems. Goodey then reports on newsprint producers Bowater, who have made losses due to the expense of British timber and electricity and compares Bowater with prosperous Canadian company Consolidated Bathurst, which imports cheap wood pulp from Canada and has bought Bowater's old mill in Cheshire. Consolidated Bathurst Manager Bill Scott is interviewed. Shell's Stanlow site and Haydock Terminal are then seen and Liverpool Solicitor Barry Marsh is interviewed about the industrial dispute at Shell. A Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) spokesman is interviewed. Goodey then reports on the development of optical fibre by the telecommunications industry and there are shots of a fibre optic plant at Deeside. J. Lofthouse's Fisherman's Friend factory at Fleetwood is then shown: Goodey speaks to two founders of the company and there are shots of the lozenges being packaged on an assembly line.