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The Cartridge Years: 1978, 1985 and 1998
Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from 1978, 1985 and 1998
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Sun 23 Dec 2012
14:00
大象传媒 Radio Solent
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December 1978
The oil rig Offshire Mercury was in position some 24 miles south of the Isle of Wight.
Southampton's home game with Liverpool was postponed because of a waterlogged pitch at The Dell.
Floods affected Portland. 聽Plans were announced to dig a trench on Chesil Beach to stop further floods.
A Shanklin accident blackspot claimed another life as a car crashed through as wall and ended up in an embankment.
The dial a bus service in & around Basingstoke was scrapped because of a lack of support.聽Parents & teachers were concerned about a type of mushroom that appeared in the new forest.
Vietnamese refugees arrived at a temporary home in Alverstoke.
Assault ship HMS Fearless arrived back in Portsmouth after a 3 month tour of duty in the聽Mediterranean.
The manager of a cinema in聽Shaftesbury聽was sacked after refusing to show X rated films.
New mess dress for the Wrens was launched on HMS Victory.
A pay dispute among tugmen in Southampton docks paralysed the port & could jeopardise the winter cruise programme.
Royal Navy announced that HMS Ark Royal is to be replaced by a much smaller, more modern cruiser HMS Plymouth.聽 聽 聽 聽 聽聽Prince Charles opened a conference in London on alternative energy.
Dense freezing fog over much of the Midlands & South East of England led to a series of road accidents. 聽The city of York was flooded.
大象传媒 TV programmes were disrupted due to a technician's strike.
Much of the UK was snow bound over Christmas.
It was聽announced聽that the racehorse that came 2nd in this year's King George the Sixth & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, was doped. Acamus was fed a prohibited substance.
Norman Scott & Jeremy Thorpe were in court.
Journalists started an聽indefinite聽strike on 1200 provincial newspapers in England, Wales & parts of Northern Ireland.
Voting began in Spain on a referendum to approve a new democratic constitution.
The American Pioneer Venus One spacecraft started orbiting Venus after its 3 hundred million mile journey to get there.
There were 'credible' sightings of UFOs over New Zealand.
England's cricketers were in Melbourne, Australia for the 3rd Test.
Southampton's home game with Liverpool was postponed because of a waterlogged pitch at The Dell.
Floods affected Portland. 聽Plans were announced to dig a trench on Chesil Beach to stop further floods.
A Shanklin accident blackspot claimed another life as a car crashed through as wall and ended up in an embankment.
The dial a bus service in & around Basingstoke was scrapped because of a lack of support.聽Parents & teachers were concerned about a type of mushroom that appeared in the new forest.
Vietnamese refugees arrived at a temporary home in Alverstoke.
Assault ship HMS Fearless arrived back in Portsmouth after a 3 month tour of duty in the聽Mediterranean.
The manager of a cinema in聽Shaftesbury聽was sacked after refusing to show X rated films.
New mess dress for the Wrens was launched on HMS Victory.
A pay dispute among tugmen in Southampton docks paralysed the port & could jeopardise the winter cruise programme.
Royal Navy announced that HMS Ark Royal is to be replaced by a much smaller, more modern cruiser HMS Plymouth.聽 聽 聽 聽 聽聽Prince Charles opened a conference in London on alternative energy.
Dense freezing fog over much of the Midlands & South East of England led to a series of road accidents. 聽The city of York was flooded.
大象传媒 TV programmes were disrupted due to a technician's strike.
Much of the UK was snow bound over Christmas.
It was聽announced聽that the racehorse that came 2nd in this year's King George the Sixth & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, was doped. Acamus was fed a prohibited substance.
Norman Scott & Jeremy Thorpe were in court.
Journalists started an聽indefinite聽strike on 1200 provincial newspapers in England, Wales & parts of Northern Ireland.
Voting began in Spain on a referendum to approve a new democratic constitution.
The American Pioneer Venus One spacecraft started orbiting Venus after its 3 hundred million mile journey to get there.
There were 'credible' sightings of UFOs over New Zealand.
England's cricketers were in Melbourne, Australia for the 3rd Test.
December 1985
Dorset police were investigating the death of a young boy whose body was found by A35 near Bridport.聽Fire destroyed a large part of Lonspee Special School in Canford Heath 聽
Police in Poole were investigating the murder of Steven Radburn in his flat in the Bearwood estate.聽聽Much of East Anglia was under a heavy blanket of snow.
A 4 year old girl was being held hostage in a siege in Northolt.
There was surprise as Live Aid organiser Bob Geldoff was overlooked in the new years honours
A century of motoring was marked with a rally at Silverstone
Thousands fled their homes as Mount Etna erupted.
There were celebrations in Paris for The Eiffel Tower's centenary聽
A terrorist attack on Vienna airport.
A plane crashed into a California housing estate.
Police in Poole were investigating the murder of Steven Radburn in his flat in the Bearwood estate.聽聽Much of East Anglia was under a heavy blanket of snow.
A 4 year old girl was being held hostage in a siege in Northolt.
There was surprise as Live Aid organiser Bob Geldoff was overlooked in the new years honours
A century of motoring was marked with a rally at Silverstone
Thousands fled their homes as Mount Etna erupted.
There were celebrations in Paris for The Eiffel Tower's centenary聽
A terrorist attack on Vienna airport.
A plane crashed into a California housing estate.
December 1998
It was announced that Haslar hospital was to close after nearly 250 years.
A ferry worker who was transporting a radio distress beacon in his van in Dorset hit a bump in the road activated the device... Sending an SOS to a satellite.聽A woman died and five people had to be rescued after a fire in Bournemouth.
Portsmouth hospitals were inundated with flu patients.
A bulk carrier was towed into Southampton after becoming stranded in heavy seas off Sandown.
Hundreds of rail workers were facing an uncertain future.聽Part of Fareham shopping centre roof collapsed.
Britain's first-ever dinosaur museum was given the go-ahead. It will be built near Sandown beach at a cost of 拢2.5M and the design will be suitably Jurassic.
Work began on a new cruise liner named "Aurora", to be based in Southampton. 聽She was due to arrive in spring 2000 and be the sister ship of P&O's Oriana.
5 young soldiers and 2 civilian instructors were rescued after their yacht broke up in heavy weather off Dorset.
It was revealed that Dorset was the busiest county in terms of RNLI call outs.
An RAF pilot died after his harrier jump jet crashed into a field in Durham.
A man convicted of the 1982 Hyde Park bombings was released after a successful appeal.聽Richard Branson was attempting to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon.
Bombing raids continued on Iraq by UK & US forces.
The lower house of Congress met to decide if President Clinton should be impeached about lying over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
A ferry worker who was transporting a radio distress beacon in his van in Dorset hit a bump in the road activated the device... Sending an SOS to a satellite.聽A woman died and five people had to be rescued after a fire in Bournemouth.
Portsmouth hospitals were inundated with flu patients.
A bulk carrier was towed into Southampton after becoming stranded in heavy seas off Sandown.
Hundreds of rail workers were facing an uncertain future.聽Part of Fareham shopping centre roof collapsed.
Britain's first-ever dinosaur museum was given the go-ahead. It will be built near Sandown beach at a cost of 拢2.5M and the design will be suitably Jurassic.
Work began on a new cruise liner named "Aurora", to be based in Southampton. 聽She was due to arrive in spring 2000 and be the sister ship of P&O's Oriana.
5 young soldiers and 2 civilian instructors were rescued after their yacht broke up in heavy weather off Dorset.
It was revealed that Dorset was the busiest county in terms of RNLI call outs.
An RAF pilot died after his harrier jump jet crashed into a field in Durham.
A man convicted of the 1982 Hyde Park bombings was released after a successful appeal.聽Richard Branson was attempting to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon.
Bombing raids continued on Iraq by UK & US forces.
The lower house of Congress met to decide if President Clinton should be impeached about lying over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
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