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Tyne Ship Repair
The future of the shipbuilding industry in the North of England
Asian Healthcare
How the lack of a knowledge of English is affecting healthcare within the Asian community
Liverpool
The clash between Liverpool Council and central government over funding
Teachers' Strike
The progress of the ongoing teachers' strike
Adopting a Black Child
Should transracial adoption be forbidden?
Tourism in the Industrial North
The tourist boom in the industrial West North of England
Tamils
Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka and the changing British policy on visas for them
Stansted Airport
The expansion of Stansted into a major International Airport
Miners' Wives
How miners' wives in Britain were changed by the bitter miners' strike of 1984-1985
Lakeland Row
Controversy over plans to develop Braithwaite Fold in Bowness, Lake District, UK
Communists
Trouble within the ranks of the British Communist Party
Prison Population
The UK penal policy of imprisonment and the resulting problem of overcrowding in prisons
Settle and Carlisle Railway
British Rail's plan to close the beloved Settle and Carlisle Railway line
'New Realism' and the TUC Conference
A preview of The Trades Union Congress in Blackpool, UK and the mood of 'new realism'
Sex Discrimination Ten Years on
In the 10 years since sex discrimination became illegal, how have things changed?
Police and Firearms
'The keeping of the peace in Britain may be entering a new era'
The Crisis in Liverpool City Council
Liverpools' crisis - a fight between a conservative government and a Labour city council
Cornish Tin Mines
The decline of the tin mining industry in Cornwall
The Isle of Dogs
Plans to transform the Isle of Dogs into a 'high technology world centre of finance'
Channel Tunnel
Plans are announced to link the UK and France by an undersea tunnel
Ironbridge
'The birthplace of Britain's Industrial Revolution'
Goths in London
'Death, sex and beauty rolled into one - the Gothic look'
Liverpool gets a Caretaker Administration
'Can Britain's 6th largest city reverse the downward spiral?'
The Satanic Verses
The reaction of the British Islamic community in Bradford to 'The Satanic Verses'
Toxic Waste
Canadian toxic waste being shipped to Britain
Oil Spill in Mersey Estuary
The consequences of an oil spill in the Mersey
Trade Unions and Industry
Does the Trade Union Movement in Britain have a future?
Technology Education in Nottingham
The British school geared to the needs of industry
Telford
Life in Telford, successful New Town which is also 'the most debt-prone area of the UK'
West Cumbria
The isolation of West Cumbria and its industrial future
Open Cast Mining
The development of open cast mining in County Durham