ATV Today: 14.07.1980: Hollinwell Carnival

Summary

Terry Lloyd reports from Hollinwell Showground near Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire where three hundred people, mostly children, collapsed at a jazz band festival yesterday.

Year:

1980

Duration:

0:02:51

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Environmental health officers are researching various theories including mass hysteria and crop spraying. Terry Lloyd report to camera at Hollinwell Showground. We see soil samples being collected by experts, one of whom talks to Terry about what may have happened. The children were taken to four different hospitals in the area although most were not detained. View of Mansfield General Hospital and brief interview inside with a victim of the incident. Back at the site there is a further interview with two eye witnesses.


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