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The Cartridge Years: 1969, 1971 and 1981
Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from three Cartridge years: 1969, 1971 and 1981.
This week Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from June 1969, 1971 and 1981. And he plays three tracks from Tony Bennett鈥檚 1962 album 鈥業 Left My Heart In San Francisco鈥�
Richard highlights some of the lighter stories of the week that you may have missed, reviews some of the recent surveys and looks ahead to the news for Monday.
It's the perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Last on
Sun 22 Jun 2014
14:00
麻豆社 Radio Solent
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June 1969
- Prime Minister Harold Wilson addressed the nation about the TUC's proposals to curb wildcat strikes, and inter-union disputes.聽
- Manufacturer Hawker Siddeley sent warnings to airlines flying the Comet 4, warning of a potential defective valve. 聽聽
- Scottish fishermen were on strike.
- A new school was opened in the Welsh town of Aberfan, two years after the coal tip disaster that swept the previous building away.
- At Ascot, the Alexandra stakes was won by the favourite Tubalcain.
- The Red Arrows aerobatic team was grounded and the pilots retrained after the Royal Air Force said the team's performance was sub-standard.
- A restaurant in Spain collapsed, having opened three days earlier on exclusive residential estate.
- A train derailed in Somerset after distortion was found on the track. 聽28 passengers were injured.
- Astronaut Neil Armstrong was in final training for his moon landing.
- The 50th anniversary of the first trans Atlantic flight, made by pilots Allcock & Brown was marked.
- HM Queen rode her own horse at the trooping of the colour for the first time. Historically the Monarch had ridden a police horse.
June 1971
- Prime Minister Edward Heath was chosen to lead the British Admirals Cup yacht race entry.
- Teachers in the National Union of Schoolmasters were on strike. 聽Pupils on the Isle of Wight walked out in support of their teachers.
- Cigarettes carrying a Government warning began to appear in the shops.
- Teachers in the National Union of Schoolmasters were on strike. 聽Pupils on the Isle of Wight walked out in support of their teachers.
- Education Minister Margaret Thatcher promised a conference of education officers in Eastbourne, there would be more money available for primary school buildings.
- Airline BOAC cancelled their order for three Boeing jumbo jets.
- The annual race relations board report criticised prejudice in housing and in social life.
- Police were treating as arson, a fire in London's Inverness Terrace in which two people were killed. Nine people were killed in another recent fire in a hotel in Bayswater.聽
- The city of York was celebrating it's 1900th anniversary.
- The annual London to Calais powerboat race started from Tower Bridge.
- One hundred revellers were arrested at the Reading pop festival.
- Eight thousand protesters in Birmingham demanded an inquiry into the working of the Abortion Act.
- The government announced an extra 拢500 million would be spent on completing a network of motorways around England.
- Three Russian cosmonauts were found dead when Soyuz 11 landed.
June 1981
- A coaster was damaged in an explosion off Portland.
- Canisters containing potentially dangerous chemicals were washed up on the beach at Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight.
- Southampton's Tudor House launched a 拢200,000 appeal after wood worm was found in the historic beams.
- Refurbishment works were underway to the Milton Road end of The Dell, home of Southampton Football Club.
- Dockers in Southampton were in dispute with management over working practices.
- Workers at Pirelli Cables factories in Southampton were on a work to rule.
- There were fears that Portsmouth Naval Dockyard could close in the forthcoming defence review.
- The government announced that Haslar detention centre was to be the new home for young offenders, effectively securing it's future.
- A grandmother from Bournemouth was names as the country's top lollipop lady.
- Sparsholt College open day attracted over 8000 visitors.
- Shots were fired at the Trooping of the Colour ceremony as the Queen passed the corner of The Mall and the Horse Guards Parade.
- Radio 1 DJ Noel Edmonds launched a bid to regain the world water speed record for Britain.
- Ladies flocked to Berkshire for Ascot Races Ladies Day.
- London ambulance drivers were on strike.
- Fires broke out at Covent Garden & Russell Square tube stations.
- Derek Bell and Jackie Ickx won the Le Mans 24 hours race in a Porsche. 聽A French racing driver & a track steward were killed in separate accidents during the race.
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- Sun 22 Jun 2014 14:00麻豆社 Radio Solent