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The Cartridge Years: 1979, 1987 and 1990
Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from 1979, 1987 and 1990.
This week Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from the June of 1979, 1987 and 1990.
He has the local headlines and hears your stories of the relevant years.
Plus tracks from his featured album of the week, Kate Bush鈥檚 1978 album The Kick Inside.
And Richard highlights some of the lighter stories of the week that you may have missed. It's the perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Last on
Sun 30 Jun 2013
14:00
麻豆社 Radio Solent
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June 1979
- A German tanker 'Tarpenbek' overturned in Sandown Bay. Work was ongoing to remove the fuel from the ship's tanks.
- Flight Refuelling Ltd from Wimborne were awarded a 拢1.5 million defence contract for handling pilot-less aircraft.
- Villagers in Droxford were surveying the weight of traffic using the A32.
- Southampton Football Club announced plans to extend their home at The Dell.
- Edward Heath was again chosen to lad the British team in yachting's America's Cup.
- The south of England skiing championships were held in Southampton.
- The Cerne Abbas Giant was being re-chalked.
- East Hampshire District Council unveilled their new logo - which included a Natterjack toad.
- Bj枚rn Borg defeated Roscoe Tanner 6-7, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the final to win the Gentlemen's Singles title at Wimbledon Championships.
- The Minimum Lending Rate stayed at 14% despite speculation that it would be cut.
- British Steel announced losses of over 拢300 million.
- The price of Petrol increased by between 7p & 9p a gallon.
- The Industrial Secretary Sir Keith Joseph was considering a review of the Post Office's letter monopoly.
- Police hunting the killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper published letters from him.
- British Motor Manufacturers said they would improve the average petrol consumption of cars by 10% by 1985.
- Two bombs planted by Basque terrorists exploded near hotels on the Costa Del Sol.
- Princess Anne visited a refugee camp in Thailand.
- Pope John Paul created 15 new Cardinals increasing the College of Cardinals to 135.
June 1987
- 50 light aircraft took part in revival of Schneider Trophy race at Bembridge.
- A new forest resident took out a court injunction to ban a fox hunt from his land.
- Parents of pupils at Aldermoor Middle School in Southampton demonstrated outside entrance in protest at plans to close the school.
- Luxury flats at Durlston Cliff in Swanage were in danger of collapsing down the 200 foot cliffs after a storm.
- The National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies of Great Britain were holding their annual festival and competitions at Bournemouth International Centre
- Princess Anne visited Marwell Zoo to raise funds for mentally handicapped.
- Customs officers at South Coast ports stepped up their action over pay.
- Richard Branson's trans-Atlantic balloon trip was postponed due to bad weather.
- Europe's first single lung transplant was carried out in Newcastle upon Tyne.
- To celebrate the centenary of the St John Ambulance a huge party of 167,000 people was held in Hyde Park, attended by the Queen & Phillip Schofield.
- 20,000 cyclists took to the streets in a ride to raise money for British Heart Foundation in the London to Brighton ride.
- Over 25,000 runners took part in the great north run.
- Eleven Britons are amongst the 16 arrested as drug smugglers operating from Costa Del Sol used speed boats to move hashish to Spain from Morocco.
- The death toll from the ETA bombing of a Barcelona supermarket reached 17.
- Detroit Grand Prix: Ayrton Senna won the Detroit grand prix - Britain's Nigel Mansell was in fifth.
June 1990
- Beer drinkers and pub landlords reacted angrily to the news that the price of a pint is set to rise by up to ten pence.
- Sharon Millen swam the Solent as she prepared for her cross channel swim the Channel.
- The Round Britain Challenge yacht race was delayed, due to bad weather.
- The marine exhibition Workboat 90 attracted thousands of visitors.
- A scheme to improve air traffic flow across the South was proposed by the Civil Aviation Authority.
- Hampshire Police & Interpol were investigating the theft of 3 paintings worth more than 拢1,000,000. The paintings disappeared on their journey between Southampton Art Gallery & Lisbon in Portugal.
- BP began sending oil through a pipeline which was laid under the New Forest from its Wytch Farm oil field in Dorset.
- A 102 year old Lymington woman realised a lifelong ambition as she was taken for a drive in a police car.
- The government introduced a stricter MOT test to reduce harmful exhaust fumes.
- Engineers discovered that the space Hubble telescope had a warped mirror.
- Broadcasting bill, which was under review in the House of Lords, would eventually mean that sports events must go to highest bidder.
- London's firefighters were in dispute with management over a controversial plan to train them as paramedics.
- Crime figures showed a 15% overall increase.
- 140 passengers were stranded at Luton airport after the parent company of Capital Airlines went into liquidation.
- An extreme heatwave hit South West America, sparking several forest fires
- Stefan Edberg and Martina Navratiliva were respective Wimbledon champions.
- Dorset took on Glamorgan in the Nat West Trophy first round
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- Sun 30 Jun 2013 14:00麻豆社 Radio Solent