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Programme presented by Jon Lander. The Police Federation have recently called for the law on shotgun ownership to be tightened up. In a film report Sally Jones looks at the issue. She interviews Pat Grant whose son Michael was killed in a shotgun accident as well as the broadcaster Tony Butler who lost his brother to another gun accident. We then see a display of shotguns and library pictures from ATV Today in September 1975 showing the aftermath of a fatal shooting on Lambourne Road in Leicester in which a police officer and ambulance driver were killed. The current Warwickshire Chief Constable Peter Joslin (who attended the scene of the Leicester shooting) is interviewed about gun laws. We then see a demonstration of the power of a shotgun used by a police firearms instructor. Jones next turns her attention to the sporting fraternity and is seen trying out clay-pigeon shooting and she talks to Graham Downing from the British Association for Shooting and Conservation and Paul Gregory who runs a gun shop at Bourne End in Buckinghamshire who defend the right of people to own shotguns. Finally Jones interviews the Home Office Minister Giles Shaw. Next in the studio, Reg Harcourt interviews the Leader of the Liberal Party, David Steel about the conflicts that exist between Labour and the Conservatives which have been highlighted by a recent speech from Ted Heath. Next as part of a regular series in which MPs report on a subject of their choosing the Labour MP for Ladywood, Clare Short calls for a national minimum wage. The Government say that people are pricing themselves out of the labour market and are calling for national wage cuts but Short thinks the opposite would be better for society We see Clare Short reporting to camera in Birmingham and see views inside a Job Centre. She vox pops in the city about wage cuts and then interviews Chris Pond, the Director of the Low Pay Unit. We then see signs for various textile firms and Short talks to Pal Gill of the T&GWU about textile firms who pay very low rates of pay. We then see inside a school canteen as low paid public sector workers are discussed. Short talks to Lil Stevens of the National Union of Public Employees and Ann Andrews of the Birmingham Money Advice Centre. Finally we see library pictures of women working in a textile factory.
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