GHF-E090-N15-03 — Thursday 12 May 1988: South Wales Echo (British Newspaper Archive extract)
Wiki catalogue reference: GHF-E090-N15-03 · Custodian / source URL: Buckler family evidence repository
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Catalogue UID: GHF-E090-N15-03 · Custodian/source copy: open source object. Preview and provenance status as at 10-10-2026.
Description
Catalogue: GHF-E090-N15-03 · Date: Thursday 12 May 1988 · Publication: South Wales Echo (County: Glamorgan, Wales) · Press Archive index
This page follows the wiki’s evidence standard: 1. the evidence (the image), 2. a verbatim transcript, 3. a description of what the item is, and 4. an interpretation of what it shows. Sections 1–3 are meant to be checkable by anyone against the image. Section 4 is open to challenge; corrections are logged under the change-control rule.
DESCRIPTION A search-result extract from the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) for the South Wales Echo of Thursday 12 May 1988, as shown by the BNA website: a short run of machine-read text around the search words, with the publication date, title and county. It is not the full article. The text is reproduced exactly as the BNA displays it, including its misreadings and missing punctuation; words that clearly belong to neighbouring stories are noted under Interpretation. 🕒
The screenshot is held in the family’s Google Drive (Screenshot_20250617 series) and the datro repository. The full page can be ordered from the BNA.
Transcription
Open transcription
Transcribed exactly from the image above, including the original spelling and errors. Square brackets mark editorial notes, cross-headings and captions. […] or … marks text that is cut off or illegible.
… DRAMA SUCCESS Somebody will ibe warns farmer CARDIFF MP Alun Michael has asked the Lord Chancellor to look at the case of defiant farmer Bill Buckler who fought off baliffs with chainsaw keep his house And Mr Buckler -himself has warned that someone would …
Interpretation and wider context
INTERPRETATION The search text runs two headlines together (“DRAMA SUCCESS” belongs to another story) and misreads “be killed” as “ibe”. The substance is that the Cardiff MP Alun Michael asked the Lord Chancellor to look at the case.
It confirms a family recollection. The correspondence between Alun Michael and the Lord Chancellor’s Department is a record worth requesting (National Archives, LCO series).
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Interpretive assessment date: 10-10-2026.