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RETRO 1995: Cantona kicks off kiddy combat

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:56:16 +0100

YOUNGSTERS aspire to be like their role models, so when Manchester United footballer Eric Cantona kung-fu kicked a Crystal Palace fan at Selhurst Park in 1995 it led to a kiddy combat craze across the country.

RETRO 1988: Horse mania sweeps News Shopper

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:42:03 +0000

OVER the past month News Shopper readers have become used to seeing pictures of a horse in the newspaper, as Mark Wallinger’s 50m tall white horse was chosen as the design for the Ebbsfleet Landmark.

Short shorts, knife crime and cat killers

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:09:38 +0000

LOOKING back at 1987 it is interesting to see how much has changed and how much has stayed the same in just over 20 years.

It happened in ... 1987

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:12:08 +0000

In film the big hits were Three Men and a Baby, The Untouchables, Angel Heart, Lethal Weapon, Fatal Attraction and The Last Emperor, with the latter winning the best picture Oscar.

RETRO: New Year Special

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:10:00 +0000

HAPPY New Year to all Retro readers. Is your head throbbing as you try to read this? Is the text before your eyes swirling? Is there a pink elephant sitting next to you?

Big beds, short skirts and hard crosswords

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:29:35 +0000

JUNE 1985 saw dozens of people pushing beds through the streets of Bromley at a frantic pace, and not because an economic downturn had forced them into stealing a place to sleep.

It happened in ... 1985

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:30:28 +0000

At the cinema the big films were Back to the Future, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rocky IV, The Goonies and Out Of Africa, with the latter winning the best picture Oscar.

Tonight we’re going to orgy like it's 1999

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:39:46 +0000

THE millennium was a milestone in human civilisation so it would have been appropriate for News Shopper to be packed with momentous news in the year leading up to it, but this was not the case.

Hello sailor and bye bye to fashion sense

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:29:52 +0000

IN JOURNALISM a perk of the job is getting free tickets to shows on the condition a review goes into the newspaper, but sometimes the freebies are more of a burden than a perk.

It happened in ... 1982

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:31:17 +0000

In film the big hits were E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, An Officer and a Gentleman, Rocky III and Gandhi, with the latter winning the best picture Oscar.