Challenger explodes 73 seconds after take-off… Lovejoy… Chernobyl… Eddy Shah’s “Today” tabloid… Bread… Duke & Duchess of York marry… Samantha Fox becomes a tv presenter… the end of Betamax… Depeche Mode just couldn't get enough... Spain & Portugal enter what was then called the European Community… first major computer virus… tabloids begin to use the word “Bimbo”… Neighbours… Crocodile Dundee… Maradona knocks England out of the Mexico world cup… Gorbachev reforms announced… Out of Africa… Mir space station launched… John McCarthy kidnapped… It was A Good Year for the Roses...
Oh, and there was something particular about October 1986. Yes, 27 October 1986 saw the start of the BBC’s 1,000 extra hours of its Daytime TV Service. Oh, and the day before that, buses were deregulated in Britain outside London.
Over the next five days, Omnibuses looks back (and forward) to a period when bus industry would never be the same again, starting with transport as a political football…
New Front Photo
In honour of 20 years of deregulation, we have changed the front page photo to show the logo used by the Department for Transport in its dereg literature dating from December 1985.
Monday, 23 October 2006
Remember 1986?
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