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The Cartridge Years: 1967, 1982 and 1989
Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from December 1967, 1982 and 1989.
This week Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from the December of 1967, 1982 and 1989 and hears your stories of the relevant years.
Plus tracks from his featured album of the week, the 1999 Tom Jones album Reload.
And Richard highlights some of the lighter stories of the week that you may have missed and looks ahead to the news for Monday.
It's the perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Last on
Sun 8 Dec 2013
14:00
大象传媒 Radio Solent
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December 1967
- RMS Queen Mary arrived at Long Beach, California to begin life as a floating hotel.
- The Hovercraft SRN4, the worlds biggest hovercraft was undergoing tests on the Solent.
- Dr Christian Barnard carried out the worlds first heart transplant on Louis Washkansky in South Africa.
- Demonstrators marched on New York to protest against Vietnam War recruitment.
- A BOAC pilots strike resulted in the cancellation of many flights.
- Health Ministers were empowered to prevent people entering agricultural land due to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease.
- Seven year-old Emmanuel Malliart was kidnapped outside a school in Versailles, France.
- The Helicopter of the Queens Flight crashed near Newbury, killing the pilot and three passengers.
- Floods in Malaysia caused by monsoon rains resulted in 5,000 homeless and the possible evacuation of 500,00.
- Students marched through the streets of Delhi to protest against the government moves to retain English as an official language alongside Hindi.
- There were delays on the rail network after railway workers started a work-to-rule.
December 1982
- High winds caused a derailment in Hampshire. A train hit a blown down tree at 90mph injuring the driver.
- HMS Victory in Portsmouth Dockyard became the flagship for a new Commander-in-Chief of Naval Home command. 聽
- The Royal Navy's newest aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious came home to Portsmouth, after three months as a peacekeeper in the South Atlantic.
- HMS Newcastle was handed over to the Royal Navy in Portsmouth.
- Mary Rose was moved into her dry dock.
- Police in Southsea found an abandoned baby seal on the beach.
- A landslide blocked one side of a road at Allbrook Hill in Eastleigh.
- Staff at the Trustee Savings Bank at Portsmouth dressed up an pantomime characters as they greeted entertainer Leslie Crowther. They had been raising money for the NSPCC.
- Unemployment on the isle of wight reached crisis proportions.
- Two saints players had rape charges against them dropped.
- Fyffes bananas in Southampton sold four of their ships due to economic downturn.
- Three men who used a Portsmouth gun shop as the centre for an illegal arms export operation to Libya, were given suspended jail sentences.
- Civil servants who volunteered for duty in the Falklands at the height of the conflict, received their campaign medals in Portsmouth.
- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gave the go ahead for cable TV in the UK.
- A baby boy was found abandoned on the steps of St George's hospital in London.
- 42 workers were airlifted off an north sea oil rig as it was battered by heavy seas.
- A Dutch ship ran aground off Northern Spain.
- Three people died in floods in France.
- Two bombs exploded in Sydney.
- In test cricket, England were playing Australia in Adelaide.
December 1989
- District councils in Hampshire offered the County Council money to save the threatened Calshot Activities Centre.
- It was feared that Havant ratepayers could have to find more than 拢150,000 for repairs to sea defences following recent floods.聽
- Hampshire Police were trying to identify man who apparently shot himself in the centre of Cowplain.聽
- The Police installed new equipment that made it possible for deaf & speech-impaired people to make emergency telephone calls on the motorway.聽
- Windsor Davis opened Southampton's newest multi-storey car park 聽- the 拢3m West Park car park is part of the new 大象传媒 development.聽
- Environmental Health officers in Portsmouth donned chicken & turkey outfits as part of a campaign to warn about Christmas food poisoning.聽
- Sir Robin DAY celebrated 30 years of broadcasting for 大象传媒 television
- The ambulance drivers were in dispute.
- There were fierce exchanges in Romania after Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown after 24 years. 聽 聽 聽
- Berlin's best known landmark, the Brandenburg Gate opened for the first time in almost three decades.
- 35 people died in a head-on collision between two buses in Australia's worst ever road crash.
Broadcast
- Sun 8 Dec 2013 14:00大象传媒 Radio Solent