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The Cartridge Years: 1975, 1989 and 1999.
Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from 1975, 1989 and 1999.
This week Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from May 1975, 1989 and 1999. And he plays three tracks from Snow Patrol鈥檚 2006 album Eyes Open.
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 Middlesex Panthers Leicestershire in the T20 on AM, DAB and online.
Last on
Sun 25 May 2014
14:00
大象传媒 Radio Solent
May 1975
- An IRA hunger striker died in Parkhurst prison.
- Health Inspectors said catering conditions on liner Ocean Monarch were 'apalling'.
- South parade Pier in Southsea was damaged by fire.
- Christchurch Folk festival was taking place.
- A youngster died in a house fire in Weymouth.
- Tanker drivers were demonstrating outside the law courts in 聽Southampton after colleagues were accused of stealing fuel from Fawley.
- Thousands of gallons of petrol leaked into the River Hamble.
- The D-Day exhibition opened at Carisbrook Castle.
- HRH The Queen Mother was in Southampton to see the liner Northern Star.聽
- The Cowes floating bridge ran aground.
- 14 student teachers from Winchester had to be rescued after a canoeing expedition in The Solent.
- Two girls set a record for sailing from Cowes to New York - knocking 10 days off the previous record.
- BA predicted running five Concords would result in a 拢25 million loss.
- Nearly 2,000 nurses march through Bristol in support of immediate pay award.
- There was an explosion at chemical works at Flixborough near Scunthorpe, killing 28.
- Petrol rationing was introduced in Scotland due to industrial action at a BP refinery.
- The Rugby Lions were on tour in South Africa.
- Comedian Spike Milligan was given conditional discharge after pleading guilty to causing bodily harm to boy who trespassed in his garden.
- Cyclists competing in the milk race left Brighton.
- American secretary of state Dr Henry Kissinger returned to Washington after achieving a Middle East ceasefire.
May 1989
- HMS Endurance returned to Portsmouth after surviving a collision with an iceberg whilst patrolling the Antarctic.聽
- Pupils at Bitterne Park School in Southampton recreated a typical Victorian breakfast as part of their GCSE history exam.
- Plans for one of the largest shopping centres in Europe were rejected by the government. It was to be built outside southampton.
- The 25th anniversay of car ferry services between Solent & France was celebrated in style as P&O Viking Voyager was escorted out of Portsmouth by Royal Navy tugs.聽
- Workmen cut through a gas main in Newport.
- Clapham Rail Disaster public inquiry was under way.
- 大象传媒 journalists were on strike.
- Pop group The Shadows celebrate three decades in the charts.
- Workers at the 46 ports which come under the Dock Labour Scheme were voting on industrial action.
May 1999
- Sir Christopher Cockerill died at the age of 88, on the 40th anniversary of his hovercraft first taking to the water.
- The electricity watchdog commissioned a feasibility review of Fawley Power Station - there were fears it could close and 60 jobs would be at risk聽
- A group of dedicated engineers from Hampshire built a car powered by steam.
- Many businesses across Hampshire were counting the costs of a night of torrential rain that caused flooding across the county.
- A major rescue operation was launched after 150 people were thrown into the sea during a regatta in Weymouth Bay. More than 70 boats capsized.聽
- Protesters who were fighting to save Haslar Hospital in Gosport were pinning hopes on a new report which stated it would cost the local economy around 拢25million a year.聽
- Passenger complaints about train services in the South hit record levels again.
- A 41 year old man was rescued after falling 100ft down a cliff at Bembridge.聽
- Port Solent marina was acquired by Raglan Properties as part of a deal worth over 拢14million which also included marinas in Falmouth and Guernsey.
- New railway timetables were introduced, there were more trains from Southampton to London, but changes to services from Dorset were been criticised.
- 大象传媒 presenter Jill Dando was murdered.
- There were delays processing passports.
- Thousands of people turned out in Gloucestershire to see one of Britain's strangest bank holiday traditions, the Cheese Rolling Race.
- French Euro tunnel staff staged a protest for better working conditions.
- Bangladesh went through to the super sixes in the Cricket World Cup after beating Pakistan - England were knocked out by India.
- Watford claimed a place in the Premiership by beating Bolton Wanderers to win the 1st division championship.
- Colin Montgomerie won the PGA Golf Championship at Wentworth
- Mika Hakkinen won the Spanish Grand Prix.
Broadcast
- Sun 25 May 2014 14:00大象传媒 Radio Solent