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Belfast, Gibraltar, Loughgall, Warrenpoint
1999
20/08/1999 (first transmission)
04min 16sec
sound
Betacam, film
black and white, colour
BBC NI
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News item to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the arrival of British troops in Northern Ireland.
Archive film features - (14 August 1969) British troops arrive on streets of Belfast, barbed wire unloaded, 1999 troops into chinook, woman gives flask of tea to soldier, Warrenpoint Ambush (27 August 1979), Loughgall Ambush (8 May 1987), gravestone to IRA members killed at Gibraltar (shooting took place on 6 March 1988). Chinook flies away.
Newsline 6.30
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