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Catridge Years: June 1972, 1982 and 1990
Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from three Cartridge years: June 1972, 1982 and 1990.
This week Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from June 1972, 1982 and 1990. And he plays three tracks from Taylor Swift鈥檚 2012 album 鈥楻ed鈥�
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 Surrey in the county championship on AM and online.
Last on
Sun 29 Jun 2014
14:00
大象传媒 Radio Solent
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 presented her baby William to the world.
- 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 1990
- Beer drinkers and pub landlords reacted angrily to the news that the price of a pint is set to rise by up to ten pence.
- Sharon Millen swam the Solent as she prepared for her cross channel swim the Channel.
- The Round Britain Challenge yacht race was delayed, due to bad weather.
- The marine exhibition Workboat 90 attracted thousands of visitors.聽
- A scheme to improve air traffic flow across the South was proposed by the Civil Aviation Authority.
- Hampshire Police & Interpol were investigating the theft of 3 paintings worth more than 拢1,000,000. The paintings disappeared on their journey between Southampton Art Gallery & Lisbon in Portugal.聽
- BP began sending oil through a pipeline which was laid under the New Forest from its Wytch Farm oil field in Dorset.聽
- A 102 year old Lymington woman realised a lifelong ambition as she was taken for a drive in a police car.聽
- The government introduced a stricter MOT test to reduce harmful exhaust fumes.
- Engineers discovered that the space Hubble telescope had a warped mirror.
- Broadcasting bill, which was under review in the House of Lords, would eventually mean that sports events must go to highest bidder.
- London's firefighters were in dispute with management over a controversial plan to train them as paramedics.
- Crime figures showed a 15% overall increase.
- 140 passengers were stranded at Luton airport after the parent company of Capital Airlines went into liquidation.
- An extreme heatwave hit South West America, sparking several forest fires聽
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