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Nearly forty years ago, a police officer was hacked to death during a night of violence in north London. Police...
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On December 6, 1989, Doctor Who as a TV series (there were movie spin-offs) came to an end after a...
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1985 was a thrilling year for Cold War spies with two double agents dominating the headlines. One was a high...
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It's hard to believe but a whole swathe of the British population, still very much alive today, was legally beaten...
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Being told to stand still. The lights going up. The police entering in large numbers. Frisking. Individuals led away. Court...
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I ended the 1980s in Bellshill - just outside Glasgow having spent Christmas in Geneva, Switzerland. A winter holiday season...
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Coventry in 1981 was a tinderbox of a city primed to explode. Youth unemployment was skyrocketing as factories shut. The...
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One of the first measures introduced by the new Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 was the so-called 'short,...
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Today, Tamworth is a market town in Staffordshire with an old castle and an indoor snow dome. It's also famous...
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The 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom allowed women to legally terminate a pregnancy on the National Health Service....
