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The Cartridge Years: 1972, 1982 and 1992
Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from 1972, 1982 and 1992.
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Sun 2 Jun 2013
14:00
大象传媒 Radio Solent
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June 1972
- Sixteen building workers were on strike at Beaulieu where work was going on to finish National Motor Museum. 聽聽
- A token strike at Plessey's Radar factory at Cowes. About 250 people - about a quarter of workforce - are involved in the stoppage over a pay claim.
- Here was a row over the felling of 250 trees in New Forest. 聽Local people had expected only twenty trees to be felled to make way for overhead power cables to four cottages.
- Twenty Two year old Linda Allen from Fareham was givent he title crowned Miss Hampshire Gunner. She had spent 10 days with Hampshire Regiment in West Germany.
- An Isle of Wight planning committee were criticised for their handling of application for residential development at Bembridge Harbour.聽
- Dorset Police were searching for men who attacked & robbed a couple at their Weymouth shop.聽
- Meet The Navy Week was being held in Portsmouth.
- Gypsy Moth completed the transatlantic race - even though skipper Francis Chichester was ill on board.
- A 40 ton steel cannon was discovered by workmen building a road in Freshwater.
- 1800 Dock workers from Southampton were on strike - part of a national dispute.
- Two families were evicted from a travellers site in Weymouth.
- Paddle Steamer 'Ryde' was launched on the Medina River as a floating hotel.
- 200 inmates at Albany prison staged a sit in - protesting about food and a lack of weekend exercise.
- Victor Gibb was named Fork Lift Truck driver of the year at Southampton docks.
- Duke of Edinburgh was in Poole on an official visit.
- New Forest was hosting the national orienteering championships.
- Fire destroyed a great part of the Old Mill hotel in Ringwood.
- New regulations on the materials used in car tyres came into effect.
- Four companies of UDA accompany Protest Vanguard marched through Armagh.
- A Norwegian vessel fired on a British trawler off Scotland.
- Flt. Lt. John Potter pedalled his balsa & baking foil plane built by RAF apprentices a record 1,171yards 2ft 10in in Oxfordshire.
- An RAF Plane crashed into Irish Sea. All on board were rescued uninjured.
- Twin engined Hanser plane carrying 8 German business men crashed into holiday camp killing 7 passengers just after take off from Blackpool airport.
- Canberra bomber crash in Norwich - two RAF airmen killed.
- Goodyear Blimp: Europa, rebuilt since she broke her moorings and crashed into a tree, took her first test flight since crashing two months earlier.
- The first day of Henley Royal Regatta was blessed with sunshine.
- Large number of icebergs drifting south blamed for depression in Atlantic causing coldest June in GB since records began .
- 9,000 steel workers out on strike on Teeside.
- The IRA called for a ceasefire in Northern Ireland.
- A five year old boy was reported missing from home in Staines.
- Briton Timothy Davey lost his appeal against 6yr prison sentence for drug offences in Turkey.
- There were floods in Bangladesh.
- Whaling was banned for ten years by UN Environment conference in Stockholm.
- Insurers were warning that car premiums were likely to rise by up to thirty per cent this year.聽
- British Airways were trying to sell Concorde to Japan.
- Pilots were threatening strike action.
- The railway workers dispute ended.
- British Leyland announce plans to sell half a million cars in Europe within 3 years.
- Noise & industrial fall-out from Gulf Oil Refinery was making life unbearable for villagers at Waterston, Pembrokeshire.
- New uniform and sportswear for the Great Britain Olympic team for Munich were revealed.
- Swedish veteran driver Jo Bonnier was killed in the Le mans 24 Hour race.
- A mobile crane crashed into a drapers shop in North London.
June 1982
- A petrol price war broke out in some parts of Southern England.
- Drama series 'Beau Geste' was being filmed near near Wareham.
- 2000 workers at Marconi went on a 1 day strike in Portsmouth.
- Health Service Workers and other trade Union members took part in a march in Southampton.聽
- Cunard cargo ship 'Saxonia' returned Portsmouth after serving in the Falklands.
- British Journalists returned home at the end of the falklands conflict.
- A Portsmouth petrol service station opened an on site cash machine for the first time.
- Sixty one 61 people abseiled down the 110ft. 'Abbey Life' Assurance building in Bournemouth to raise money for Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme.
- A large crowd gathered at Calshot to see a flying display to commemorate Schneider Trophy Air Races of the past.
- Pilot Eric Moody was in charge of a British Airways Boeing 747 as it suffered a temporary loss of all four engines, having flown through an ash cloud over Indonesia.聽
- Members of the ASLEF union were on strike.
- Roy Jenkins was elected leader of the SDP.聽
- Princess Diana celebrated her 21st birthday.
- William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor was born.聽
- An Al Italia plane on a flight from Delhi to Tokyo was hijacked.
- Spain & Argentina were knocked out of the world cup.
- NASA were conducting test flights for the Space Shuttle in Florida.
June 1992
- Hampshire Police arrested missing prisoner Malcolm Smith in Millbrook.
- Fifty soldiers from Blandford set off to join the peacekeeping force in Yugoslavia. They are members of the thirty signals regiment.聽
- A 35,000 signature petition calling for a ban deer hunting on the New Forest was handed to Southampton Itchen MP, John Denham.聽
- Senior Catholic churchman Dr Edward DALY held talks with Sinn Fein - the first time such a meeting had taken place.
- Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Princess of Wales had not authorised any interviews or co-operated "in any way" with the controversial book about the Royal marriage.
- A bomb exploded outside the festival Hall on London`s South Bank.
- A police officer was murdered & another seriously wounded by gunmen in Yorkshire.
- Prime Minister John Major was under intense pressure over the Maastricht treaty.
- The first test at Edgbaston between England and Pakistan ended in a draw.
- The Milk Race ended in Lincoln.
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