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BBC NEWS is a current affairs show produced by the British public broadcast service in London, United Kingdom. This recording was captured off-air by Robert Chapman of Auckland University’s Politics Department and forms part of the extensive Chapman current affairs broadcast collection. The Chapman collection contains several hundred recordings of BBC NEWS, primary from 1994 to 1996. The lead news anchors during this period were Martyn Lewis, Anna Ford, Moira Stuart, Jill Dando and Andrew Harvey. In the mid 1990s, BBC NEWS was broadcast in New Zealand on the Sky News channel of the subscription-based Sky Network.
“Sky News now brings you the BBC News - as recorded earlier today” (voiceover).
The headlines:
Rosemary West - the widow of serial Frederick West - is to stand trial on 10 murder charges. Her lawyer says he’ll fight the decision on the grounds that press coverage makes a fair trial impossible.
The Prime Minister promises to retain Britain’s border controls despite European attempts to remove them/
The Archbishop of York explains why he wants getting marries to make you richer.
More than a thousand mourners have attended the funeral at Coventry Cathedral of animal rights activist Jill Phipps who died under the wheels of a lorry carrying veal calves for export. Among them was Brigitte Bardot.