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Programme presented by Tony Francis. In a film item political pundit Robert Waller visits Chesterfield in Derbyshire to examine the make-up of the town where a by-election will take place next month. We see Waller driving his car through Chesterfield and some brief views of Chesterfield market, a new housing estate at Loundsley Green, council estate at Duston, an industrial area at Staveley, and Ireland Colliery.
Next on film Rob Whitehouse profiles the Derbyshire miner Peter Heathfield who is a candidate to become the next General Secretary of the NUM. There are interviews with Heathfield and Alan Griffiths, Professor of Industrial Relations at Nottingham University. We also see library pictures of the 1973 Markham colliery disaster and libray shots of the NUM President Arthur Scargill.
The government is planning to reform the divorce laws with the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill. In a film report Bruce Grocott meets Maureen Hanley who runs a group for one-parent families at Newark in Nottinghamshire and Don Thornton who is paying maintenance money to a woman that he last lived with thirty-five years ago. In the studio Tony Francis chairs a debate between Dick Allan from the Campaign for Justice in Divorce and Robbi Robson of the Gingerbread Group.
Production Team: Bruce Grocott; Rob Whitehouse; Mark Astaire; Sue Pearson
Film Editor: Michael J. Crolla
Graphics: Jim Chalmers
Political Editor: Reg Harcourt
Executive Producer: Terry Johnston
Editor: Mike Warman
Director: Rob Harding
Central Television production number 3073/84.