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9 March – 37 people are arrested and 10 police officers injured in Brixton, London, during rioting against the new Community Charge. 13 March – The ambulance crew dispute ends after six months when workers agree to a 17.6% pay rise. 15 March. Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
Tyne and Wear Metro opens on Tyneside after six years of construction, with the first phase between Haymarket in Newcastle and Whitley Bay. The tram network is expected to grow throughout the 1980s. 16 August – 37 people die as a result of the Denmark Place fire, arson at adjacent London nightclubs.
South Korean industrial giant Daewoo announces plans to build a new car factory in the United Kingdom within the next few years, costing up to £350,000,000 and creating new jobs. [1] 10 January – The British football transfer fee record is broken when Manchester United sign striker Andy Cole from Newcastle United in a deal valued at £7million.
6 May: A series of elections took place for local councils and directly elected mayors in England, as well as police and crime commissioners in England and Wales. Welsh Parliament election. Scottish Parliament election. London Assembly election. London mayoral election. 2021 Hartlepool by-election.
4 March – The national tabloid newspaper Today launches from Wapping. It pioneers the use of computer photo typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when British national newspapers are still using Linotype machines and letterpress. [5] 5 March – The High Court disqualifies and fines 81 Labour councillors for failing to set a rate.
11 April – Ten British Army soldiers were injured in rioting in Derry, Northern Ireland. 15 April – The planned Barbican Centre in London was given the go-ahead. 18 April – There was a serious fire at Kentish Town West railway station. The station remained closed until 5 October 1981.
23 March – The government wins a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons after James Callaghan strikes a deal with the leader of the Liberal Party, David Steel. [6] 23–25 March – Elizabeth II visits Papua New Guinea. 29 March – Income tax is slashed to 33p in the pound from 35p in the budget. 31 March – Elizabeth II visits Muscat.
The Conservative government's joy at tackling unemployment is, however, marred by the findings of a MORI poll which shows Labour slightly ahead of them for the first time in almost three years. 19 May – Walshaw Dean Lodge, West Yorkshire, enters the UK Weather Records with the Highest 120-min total rainfall at 193 mm. As of July 2006 this ...