BBC Nine'o'clock News, 11 April 1997

Michael Buerk presents the Nine'o'clock News on Friday 11 April 1997. This is the complete programme showing how the election campaign dominated an extended programme. Reports: 1) Robin Oakley on the news that junior minister Angela Browning has departed from the Conservative Party's official policy on the Euro. Some more hardline eurosceptics such as Sir Peter Tapsell are going further. 2) Greg Wood on the Labour business manifesto launch. 3) John Fryer on the news that firefighters in Essex have voted to strike. Non-election news: 4) Graeme McLagan on the start of a trial of eight men accused of an IRA bombing campaign targeted at electricity substations. 5) Brian Hanrahan on the diplomatic impasse between Iran and many European countries. 6) Agreement between the EU and USA on US sanctions on countries trading with Cuba. 7) Mike Wooldridge on the Lok Sabha voting no confidence in the Indian government of H.D. Deve Gowda. 8) David Loyn on Keith Mangan and Paul Wells, two British hostages taken in Kashmir in 1995. 9) Ed Crooks on a north-south divide in house prices. 10) Progress on the international space station. 11) Feargal Keane on the closure of the Royal Navy base in Hong Kong, preparing for handover to China in September. 12) Adam Mynott on Chesterfield playing in the FA Cup. Then back to the election: 13) Anne Perkins' campaign desk on the African/Caribbean vote (Reeta Chakrabarti), the Referendum Party's attempt to get more party broadcasts, the Natural Law Party manifesto launch, Paddy Ashdown in Penmaenmawr, and new designs for ballot boxes. 14) Peter Jay on the big issue of the election: the single European currency. 15) Robin Oakley winds up the week's campaigning. Followed by Newsroom South East presented by Mike Embley, the weather from Peter Cockcroft, a trail for 'Ten Pound Poms', and a party election broadcast by the Liberal Democrats.