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Also includes: Great Steeping, Lincolnshire - wartime aerodrome; Normanton Church to be flooded by Empingham reservoir, Rutland and Lincolnshire sunset near Barrow upon Humber

Maps, charts and illustrations, produced by Gemini News Service, relating to Burkina Faso.

Selection of newspaper cuttings of Gemini News Service articles relating to Burma.

Subjects covered include: student rebellion, 1989-1990; an election win for opposition parties, 1990; civil war, 1991-1992 and Junta economic gains despite war, 1995-1996.

Cartoon shows a dog wearing an Oxford Cap barking down the horn of an old record player. The record player is labelled "Burnham CMTTEE".

Background information : The National Union of Teachers was in conflict with the Burnham Committee over pay negotiations. By 5 March The National Union of Teachers gave overwhelming support to the new salary settlement giving all teachers an interim award of £120, the deal drawn up by the Burnham Committee. Teachers who had been called out on indefinite strike in Birmingham, Waltham Forest and Southwark were instructed to return to work. (source: The University of Kent, British Cartoon Archive)

Dog with professor's cap by gramophone labelled 'Burnham Cmttee' which has dispensed bone. Published with another cartoon (LDG/1/1/52) inset, depicting the dog barking at the gramophone. [The dog and gramophone are a reference to the 1899 painting 'His Master's Voice' which depicted a dog listening to a gramophone and was used for the logo of music brand HMV.]

News: 5 March: The National Union of Teachers gave overwhelming support to the new salary settlement giving all teachers an interim award of £120, the deal drawn up by the Burnham Committee. Teachers who had been called out on indefinite strike in Birmingham, Waltham Forest and Southwark were instructed to return to work. (Source: The University of Kent, British Cartoon Arhive)