BY JENNIFER BRADBURY
THE Queen described
1992 as her annus
horribilis, and no wonder.
HRH began to pay income
tax, her daughter-in-law
Sarah Ferg- uson was pictured
in the newspapers having
her toes sucked by Texan
John Bryant and a fire
destroyed much of Windsor
Castle.
To cap it all Charles
and Diana announced their
separation.
Meanwhile, the Tories
were having a great year with
the party re-elected with their
leader John Major.
On the other side of the
Atlantic Democratic Party
candidate Bill Clinton was
elected US President.
To keep blokes happy
girls like Lisa Bangert were
providing top totty appeal
NEWS:THE US government advised docs to suspend
the use of silicone breast implants pending an
invest- igation into their safety. The move raised
fears around the world that silicone implants
could leak or rupture, causing injury or illness. The US Food and
Drug Administration said surgeons should stop operating for 45
days while new evidence was exam- ined.
HERITAGE Secretary David Mellor
resigned, blaming his departure on a
barrage of negative press stories. In a
letter to the PM he said he’d become a
burden to his colleague, leaving him with
no option but to quit. There had been a
stream of stories about the married MP
since the disclosure of his affair with the
actress Antonia de Sancha.
THE government announced it was closing a third of Britain’s deep
coal mines, with the loss of 31,000 jobs. The President of the
Board of Trade, Michael Heseltine, said up to 31 out of 50
remaining deep mines would shut down. He promised an extra
£1bn from the Treasury to meet the cost of redundancies and help
mining comm- unities.
SPORT: THE Olympic Games opened in
Barcelona with all countries present
for the first time in modern history.
It was the first time since 1972
that no country had boycotted
the Games.
THE last-ever league championship
before the creation of the Premier League was won by
Howard Wilkinson’s Leeds United
who overcame Manchester
United. Third were newly-promoted
Sheffield Wed- nesday.
Liverpool’s Graeme Souness
compensated for a disappointing
first season as manager in the
league by steering the Reds to
a 2-0 FA Cup victory over
Sunderland.
MUSIC: WHILE music fans were still mourning the death of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury a year before, wacky movie maestro Mike Myers made his big screen bow with, among other things, a unique homage to Bohemian Rhapsody in his hit film Wayne's World.
THE Shamen rave hit Ebeneezer Goode
caused controversy. Appa- rently a
song about a fictional character it
con- tained many jokey allusions to the
drug ecstasy, including the chorus,
“Eezer Goode, he’s
Ebeneezer Goode”. Naturally, all the
controversy ensured the song reached No1 and stayed there for
four weeks.
THIS was the first year that donations from
the profits of the Glastonbury Festival were
made to Greenpeace and Oxfam. Michael
Eavis felt that with the ending of the Cold
War that people’s concerns had shifted
away from the possibility of nuclear war to
the concerns of the environment. The festival was also
linked with National Music Day and the surprise guest was
Tom Jones. Acts included: Carter USM, Shakespear’s
Sister, Primal Scream, P J Harvey, Sawdoctors and The
Levellers. Attendance was 70,000 with tickets at £49 each. |
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