BBC News
Broadcast
1987
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Richard Whitmore and Moira Stuart were the main presenters of the BBC's daytime headlines service. The strapline for these news bulletins was "from the newsroom the main stories at…" This clip comes from May 1987 and on this day the main parties launched the manifestoes for the forthcoming general election. These manifestoes were likely to be the main topic of the programme which followed the bulletins, 'Election Call,' which the BBC Wales announcer mentions in her introduction to the bulletin.
