Main content
The Cartridge years: 1968, 1987 and 2000.
Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from three Cartridge years: 1968, 1987 and 2000.
This week Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from May 1968, 1987 and 2000. And he plays three tracks from the 1985 Collector series album, featuring Diana Ross and the Supremes.
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.
There is a choice of listening this Sunday afternoon. Richard is on FM, 1359AM, digital radio and online. And there is ball by ball cricket commentary as Hampshire face Leicestershire in the county championship on AM and online.
Last on
Sun 18 May 2014
14:00
大象传媒 Radio Solent
May 1968
- Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra was celebrating it's 75th anniversary.
- HMS Leviathon was towed out of Portsmouth harbour, bound for the breakers yard.
- A car bomb exploded at the Welsh office in Cardiff.
- 48 classic cars set off from London, heading for Edinburgh on the veteran car run.
- Peter Ustinov was directing his own play 'The unknown soldier and his wife' at the Chichester Festival.
- A block of flats collapsed at Canning Town in London's East End.
- Fire engulfed a Newcastle paper mill.
- BOAC pilots were on a work to rule.
- Tesco took over the Victor Value brand name.
- A fire broke out on board the Norweigan ferry 'Blenheim' en route from Newcastle to Oslo.
- The prototype Concorde was being built in Bristol.
- West Brom won the FA Cup.
- Demonstrators handed in a petition to the Commonwealth Secretary asking that the Rock of Gibraltar should cease to be a colony & become part of Great Britain.聽
- There were riots and demonstrations in Paris.
- 7000 refugees were living in a make-shift camp in Saigon, where water hydrant has to supply whole camp & food supplies were uncertain.
- The world frog jumping competition took place in California.
May 1987
- Portsdown Park Estate was sold 聽to developers.
- British Barbershop Singers Annual Convention held at the BiC.
- Fire destroyed the ballroom on Southampton's disused Royal Pier.
- Civil Servants were on strike.
- QE2 sailed from Southampton amid complaints from passengers after a multi million pound refit - passengers complained about unfinished cabins.. Cunard gave passengers a refund of 40%.
- An inquiry into the Zebrugge ferry disaster started.
- Klaus Barbie was on trial.聽
- He was known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners of the Gestapo while stationed in Lyon, France in the2nd world war.
- Intercity celebrated it's 21st anniversary.
- George Burns celebrated his 90th birthday.
- National graffiti championships were held in Bridlington.
May 2000
- Haven Holidays' Seaview park at Preston near Weymouth was completely destroyed by fire.
- A woman was found murdered at a dog kennels in Chale Green on the Isle of Wight.
- Thirteen year old Daniel Beveridge from Stubbington was killed when he was hit by a hydraulic jack which was sticking out from a moving lorry.
- A former national windsurfing champion sued Poole Borough Council拢135,000 at the High Court after he fell beneath the wheels of a moving dustcart. At the time of the accident he was working as a temporary dustman.
- Police were searching for a woman who tried to snatch a baby from a push chair in Gosport.
- An investigation was underway after five people were hurt on a fairground ride in Wickham.
- Cabinet Minister Mo Mowlem was in Bournemouth, opening a centre to support teenage drug users.
- A group of 50 children rioted inside a Gosport warehouse, which was being used to store.
- Two hockey teams were entered into the Guinness book of records after playing non stop for 18 hours.
- HM Queen visited HMS Sultan in Gosport.
- Hampshire shipbuilder Vosper Thorneycroft bought aircraft maintanence and equipment company Bombardier Security Systems for 拢30M.
- Radipole County First School became one of the first schools int eh country to have it's wildlife area given statutory local nature reserve status.
- The Government suffered a defeat in the Lords over war widows' pensions. Peers voted by a majority of 26 to allow widows to keep receiving their pensions even if they remarry,
- The Millennium Dome was handed a 拢29m Lottery lifeline. Taking the total grants to 拢530M.
- Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie had a baby boy 'Leo'
- British Actor Sir John Gielgud died at the age of 96.
Broadcast
- Sun 18 May 2014 14:00大象传媒 Radio Solent