- Title: UNITED KINGDOM: GOVERNMENT DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY TO DEAL WITH POWER CRISIS.
- Date: 13th November 1973
- Summary: 1. GV Cooling towers PAN TO Power Station (2 shots). 0.11 2. GV Pylon. 0.14 3. GV PAN Train yard with power station in background. 0.21 4. GV Conveyor for coal with coal in background. 0.29 5. LV Cooling towers. 0.32 6. GV Power Station. 0.37 7. LV and GV Battersea power station (2 shots) 0.45 8. GV Power Station from across river. 0.50 Initials APSM/1.14 APSM/1.27 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 28th November 1973 12:00
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- Location: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
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- Country: United Kingdom
- Reuters ID: LVA6BN0GUJM8WLOYVXZK95MHI3TM
- Story Text: The British Government declared a state of emergency in London on Tuesday and immediately took steps to head off a possible power crisis. The situation has been caused by overtime bans by Britain's coal miners and electricity generating engineers, combined with oil shortages resulting form cutbacks in Arab oil production.
The cabinet of Prime Minister Edward Heath took the decision on Tuesday (November 13) morning. Immediately the Government clamped down on electrical display advertising sand flood-lighting and instructed commercial firms to cut down on heating. Government departments and State-owned industries will cut down on fuel consumption by 10 per cent from midnight.
The gloom over Britain depended with news of a record 129 million sterling (670 million dollars) deficit in the October trade figures.
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