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Welcome to News Shopper's retro section. Every week we will pick at a different year to focus on, going as far back as 1965. We will take you on a trip back in time for a look at events, people, fashion and more from each year. You can get involved by sharing your photos and memoriess. Send by post to Simon Bull, News Shopper, Mega House, Crest View Drive, Petts Wood, Kent, BR5 1BT. Or submit material by email - click here
Hello sailor and bye bye to fashion sense
11:29am Thursday 27th November 2008
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.
Comments (0)It happened in ... 1982
11:31am Thursday 27th November 2008
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.
Fast window cleaner breaks pane barrier
9:39am Tuesday 25th November 2008
LEGENDS died and a phenomenon was born in 1977, with Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx passing away and the release of the first Star Wars film creating a legion of over-zealous fans.
Toilet humour and a rubbish robber
4:56pm Monday 17th November 2008
FOR those of you with a juvenile sense of humour, 1993 brought the greatest headline in News Shopper history: FURY AS CABLE LAYING BRINGS MISERY.
It happened in ... 1993
4:58pm Monday 17th November 2008
The big films of the year were Jurassic Park, The Fugitive, Mrs Doubtfire, Philadelphia and Schindler’s List, with the latter winning the best picture Oscar.
Fat cat and fit miss in bonfire of the vanities
10:46am Thursday 6th November 2008
AN EXPLOSIVE Retro this week to coincide with the fireworks going off across the sky, as I look at some of the big bangs of 1983.
It happened in ... 1983
10:47am Thursday 6th November 2008
The big films of the year were Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Flashdance, Educating Rita and Terms of Endearment, with the latter winning the best picture Oscar.
An edition of blame, shame and Shane Richie
10:51am Wednesday 29th October 2008
A GRIM Retro this week as I look at a particularly depressing edition of News Shopper from 1992.
It happened in ... 1992
10:54am Wednesday 29th October 2008
The big films of the year were Aladdin, Sister Act, The Bodyguard, Basic Instinct and Unforgiven, with the latter winning the best picture Oscar.
In rebellious 70s only tomatoes were square
4:30pm Wednesday 22nd October 2008
WITH Grease in cinemas and The Village People on the radio, people were inspired to cast aside their inhibitions and let their weirdness show in 1978.
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