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Tuesday 12 May 1987
…I am still deaf. I have started my election folder. Mrs Thatcher has said no to the idea from Neil Kinnock of having a debate live on TV together. She said: “There would be more hot air than light.”…...
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Thursday 4 June 1987
…An opinion poll today showed that Labour were catching up on the Tories with the Alliance increasing slightly. The whole of this morning at school was taken up with a pretend murder mystery. Five...
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Saturday 6 June 1987
…I’ve had my ear problem four months now and I am at the hospital next Friday. Today’s polls showed the Tories at 43%, Labour at 35% and the Alliance were still at 21%. I got rather bored today – I …...
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Wednesday 10 June 1987
…In 24 hours from the time I am writing this, the polling booths will have closed and Election 87 on the BBC will have begun. Opinion polls show another Tory government with another Labour opposition...
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Friday 12 June 1987
…Mrs Thatcher is back in office for another five years. She won with an overall majority of 102. Nobody expected it to be quite so big. Labour are the opposition along with the Alliance, the Scottish...
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Sunday 16 August 1987
…Ten years ago today Elvis Presley died, overweight and very ill indeed. He looked like a fat chicken… Take that, Chris Morris.
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Friday 16 October 1987
…DISASTER! Hurricane winds have been battering London and the south-east, causing damage, deaths and some injuries. A trail of destruction has been left across the country. But not here. Although we...
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Sunday 8 November 1987
…Remembrance Sunday was ruined by the IRA who planted a bomb in Northern Ireland during a big remembrance service. On a lighter note, we finished our tour of the Peak District…” Ouch. What was I...
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Thursday 19 November 1987
…DISASTER! This time it happened last night. King’s Cross Undergrond station caught fire and 30 people were killed. It began when an old wooden escalator was set ablaze and everything went up in...
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Friday 5 February 1988
…COMIC RELIEF DAY. The entire country donned their red noses, all except me, who didn’t have a proper one. Mum had tried to make me a homemade one, but it was absolutely rubbish and kept falling off,...
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