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Lyn Paul
pictured at the
1995
Handicapped
Children's
Christmas Party.
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Among the books
published in 1995 is
Boy George's
autobiography
Take It Like A Man.
Is Lyn Paul
the New Seeker
he has in mind
in Chapter 3?
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Farewell Paris, Hello London!On 11th March Lyn Paul is a guest on the radio show Bob Holness presents... Farewell to the Paris (BBC Radio 2, 7.30pm - 9.30pm) - a celebration of the light entertainment programmes recorded at the BBC's Paris Studios during the previous six decades. Among the stars reminiscing about the good old days are: Roy Hudd, Humphrey Lyttelton, Frank Muir, Pete Murray, Denis Norden, Nicholas Parsons, Bill Pertwee, Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips and June Whitfield.
The Good Old Days,
Lyn Paul's invitation to the
Reviewing the opening night's show in The Times, Tony Patrick said:
Lyn also gets a glowing review in The Stage. Peter Hepple describes her as "an exceptionally powerful solo artist" who puts her material across in a "dashingly extrovert manner." (The Stage, 21st December 1995).
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| In the News - 1995 | |
| Jan | Austria, Finland and Sweden join the European Union on 1st January, bringing the number of Member States to 15. Fred West, who was facing 12 charges of murder, is found hanged in his cell at Winson Green prison on 1st January. The World Health Organization (WHO) announces that the number of reported AIDS cases has passed the 1 million mark. Unofficial estimates put the figure closer to 4 million. France restores diplomatic relations with Iraq on 6th January, following Iraq's recognition of Kuwait's borders. On 15th January British troops call a halt to their daytime patrols on the streets of Northern Ireland. Kobe in Japan is rocked by an earthquake on Tuesday, 17th January. 6,433 people are killed with nearly 27,000 more injured. |
| Feb | On 3rd February the US space shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir. The mission is the first spaceflight for Eileen Collins, who makes 'herstory' as the first woman pilot of a Shuttle. Riverdance: The Show, which had started out as an interval performance act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, opens at the Point Theatre in Dublin on 9th February. Stephen Fry mysteriously disappears on Saturday, 18th February, leaving the cast of Cell Mates, the West End play in which he was appearing, to carry on without him. His understudy, Mark Anderson, takes over Fry's role on 20th February, with a note in the theatre programme describing Fry as "indisposed". The US adventurer and businessman Steve Fossett becomes the first person to cross the Pacific Ocean in a balloon, flying from South Korea and landing in Saskatchewan, Canada on Tuesday, 21st February. On 23rd February Algerian security forces put an end to a revolt at Serkadji Prison, which began after a failed breakout by a small group of prisoners. 4 prison guards and 96 prisoners are killed. On 25th February Barings Bank is declared bankrupt with estimated losses of over $1 billion. |
| Mar | Nick Leeson, the man responsible for the collapse of Barings Bank, is arrested at Frankfurt Airport on 2nd March. He is jailed for six years in Singapore on 2nd December. On 7th March Governor George E. Pataki signs a bill reinstating the death penalty in New York. The bill becomes law on 1st September. On 9th March the fishing dispute between Canada and Spain escalates when the Canadians seize a Spanish trawler at gunpoint. On 15th March US President Bill Clinton issues Executive Order 12957, banning US investment in Iran's energy sector. Ronnie Kray, who had been serving a life sentence for murder since 1969, dies of a heart attack on Friday, 17th March, two days after collapsing in his ward at Broadmoor Hospital. On 17th March the Sinn Féin leader Jerry Adams attends a St. Patrick's Day reception at the White House, hosted by US President Bill Clinton. From 19th - 25th March The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh visit South Africa for the first time since 1947. On 20th March 13 people are killed and more than 5,500 injured by a sarin attack in a Tokyo subway. Forrest Gump wins the Oscar for Best Picture at the 67th Academy Awards ceremony on 27th March. |
| Apr | Nicholas Ingram, a 31-year-old with dual British-American nationality, is executed in the electric chair at Jackson State prison, near Atlanta, on 8th April. On 19th April 168 people are killed when a massive bomb hidden in a rented truck is detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The bombing, perpetrated by two Iraq War veterans (Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols), is in retaliation for the bloody end to the siege of the Branch Davidian cult compound in Waco, Texas, two years earlier. On the same day terrorists strike again in Japan, releasing poisonous gas on a train and in an underground passageway beneath Yokohama Station. 372 people receive hospital treatment for for coughing, sore eyes and dizziness. At a special conference on 29th April the UK Labour Party drops Clause 4 from its constitution. This had committed the party to strive for the "common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange." |
| May | On 6th May US President Bill Clinton issues Executive Order 12959, banning all US investment in and trade with Iran In France it's third time lucky for Jacques Chirac, who is finally elected President on 7th May, after previous defeats in 1981 and 1988. On Saturday, 13th May the British climber, Alison Hargreaves, becomes the second person and the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, climbing alone and without oxygen. At the Eurovision Song Contest (held in Dublin on the same day) Secret Garden win for Norway with the song Nocturne. The UK entry, Love City Groove by Love City Groove, finishes in 10th place. Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964-1970 and from 1974-1976, dies on 24th May, aged 79. On 25th May a bill is passed in the Northern Territory of Australia which legalises euthanasia for the terminally ill. Actor Christopher Reeve is paralysed in a horse riding accident on 27th May. |
| June | On 7th June the Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating announces that there will be a referendum to decide the future of the Monarchy. He begins his speech to the House of Representatives by saying: "It is the Government’s view that Australia’s Head of State should be an Australian and that Australia should become a republic by the year 2001." Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher dies of a chest infection on 14th June, aged 47, following a liver transplant. The Queen's Birthday Honours announced on 16th June include a Knighthood for Cliff Richard, OBEs are awarded to Susan Hampshire, Saeed Jaffrey, Elaine Paige and Norman Wisdom. On 20th June Shell abandons its plans to dump its Brent Spar oil rig at sea. On 22nd June John Major forces a showdown with Tory Eurosceptics when he resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and challenges his opponents to "put up or shut up". In Berlin the Reichstag building is wrapped in silver fabric. Thousands flock to witness this controversial "work of art" by Christo. On Thursday, 29th June, 245 miles above central Asia, the American shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir. The spacecraft remains attached for five days. |
| July | On 4th July John Major is re-elected as Tory leader, defeating the only candidate to stand against him, John Redwood, by 218 votes to 89. On 5th July William Hague takes John Redwood's place in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Wales. On 10th July the Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is released from house arrest by the military junta in Myanmar. Bosnian Serbs take over Srebrenica on 11th July, despite its designation as a "safe area" by the United Nations. More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys are massacred. Robbie Williams leaves Take That on 17th July. Astronomer Alan Hale and amateur astronomer Thomas Bopp separately discover a new comet, subsequently named the Comet Hale–Bopp, on 23rd July. Charlie Rich, the country singer best known for his hits Behind Closed Doors and The Most Beautiful Girl, dies on 25th July, aged 62. The fighting in Chechnya comes to end. The Russians and the Chechnyans sign an accord on 30th July which guarantees the province the "broadest form of statehood" short of independence. |
| Aug | The Croatian Army launches Operation Storm on 4th August, an offensive to retake the Krajina region, which had been controlled by separatist ethnic Serbs since early 1991. A memorial service is held in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6th August, the 50th anniversary of the first atomic bombing. At precisely 8.15am - a half-century to the minute after the bomb was dropped over the city - bells ring and sirens wail. During the service the city's mayor, Takashi Hiraoka, says: "As long as nuclear weapons exist, it is inevitable that some country, at some point, will experience the horror that Hiroshima and Nagasaki already know." The Licensing (Sunday Hours) Act 1995 comes into force on 6th August, allowing pubs to open from noon until 10.30pm on Sundays, other than Christmas Day, and on Good Friday. The "Battle of Brit Pop" begins on Monday, 14th August when rival bands Blur and Oasis both release singles on the same day. It ends on Sunday, 20th August when the new singles chart is announced: Blur's single Country House claims the number 1 spot, outselling Roll With It by Oasis by 58,000 copies. On 16th August Bermuda votes to remain a British colony. On 17th August China announces that it had exploded a nuclear bomb in an underground test, its second in three months. On 30th August NATO forces launch Operation Deliberate Force, an air campaign lasting two-and-a-half weeks, which drops bombs on targets in Serb-held Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
| Sep | The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which had been established in 1983 and had begun inducting artists in 1986, finally has a home. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum building in Cleveland, the city where disc jockey Alan Freed had coined the term "rock and roll", is dedicated on 1st September. The following night a concert is held at Cleveland Stadium, featuring Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen, among many others. On 3rd September computer programmer Pierre Omidyar launches AuctionWeb, an online marketplace that later changes its name to eBay. On 8th September David Trimble succeeds James Molyneaux as leader of the Ulster Unionists. Elections are held in Hong Kong for a new Legislative Council on 17th September. On 19th September The Washington Post and The New York Times publish a 35,000-word essay (or manifesto) by the so called ‘Unabomber’, the unidentified mastermind behind a 17-year-long bombing campaign in the USA. In return for its publication the anonymous author pledges to "desist from terrorism". On 28th September the Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, sign an accord agreeing phase 2 of the Israelis' withdrawal from the West Bank. |
| Oct | The 10th anniversary Farm Aid concert takes place in Louisville, Kentucky on 1st October. On 3rd October O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Sir Alec Douglas-Home dies on 9th October, aged 92. On 10th October the Israeli government releases Palestinian prisoners and begins to withdraw troops from the West Bank. The Grand Ole Opry celebrates its 70th anniversary with four days of special events from 12th - 15th October, including a Bluegrass Special on 13th October hosted by the "Father of Bluegrass" Bill Monroe. The "Million Man March" takes place in Washington on 16th October. On the same day the show business accountant Keith Moore is jailed for six years for stealing £6 million from rock superstar Sting. Red Rum, winner of the Grand National in 1973, 1974 and 1977, dies on Wednesday, 18th October, at the age of 30. The champion racehorse is buried by the winning post at Aintree. On 25th October Cliff Richard goes to Buckingham Palace to receive his Knighthood. |
| Nov | The Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated on 4th November after attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv. He is shot at close range by a 25-year-old law student, Yigal Amir, who tells police: “I acted alone on God’s orders and I have no regrets.” Human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa is executed in Nigeria on 10th November. On 11th November Nigeria's membership of the Commonwealth is suspended. An Essex teenager, Leah Betts, dies on 16th November, three days after taking an ecstasy tablet at her 18th birthday party. Alan Hull of Lindisfarne dies of a heart attack on 18th November, aged 50. The Princess of Wales admits to an adulterous affair with her riding instructor James Hewitt in a Panorama interview with Martin Bashir broadcast on Monday, 20th November. On Wednesday, 22nd November, after a 31-day trial, Rosemary West is sentenced to 10 terms of life imprisonment for the murder of nine young women, including her daughter Heather and stepdaughter Charmaine. In a referendum held in Ireland on 24th November, 50.28% vote for the legalisation of divorce. On 30th November Bill Clinton becomes the first serving US president to visit Northern Ireland. |
| Dec | France is brought to a standstill by strikers protesting at government plans to cut welfare spending. Railway workers, who began a national strike on 24th November, are joined by staff on the Paris Metro, by postal workers, school teachers and workers in other public services. By 4th December workers in banks and insurance companies had also joined the strike. On Friday, 8th December a Headmaster, Philip Lawrence, is stabbed to death when he intervenes in a fight outside his school in Maida Vale, west London. The death in police custody of Wayne Douglas on 5th December sparks riots on the streets of Brixton on Wednesday, 13th December. 3 policemen are injured; 23 people are arrested. Following 21 days of negotiation, the leaders of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia sign the Dayton peace accord in Paris on Thursday, 14th December, bringing to an end three-and-a-half years of conflict in the Balkans. The strikes that had paralysed France are called off on 15th December after the Prime Minister Alain Juppé makes a number of concessions, abandoning his plans to restructure the SNCF and to increase the amount of time public service employees must work to qualify for a full pension. On 20th December Buckingham Palace announces that The Queen had written to Prince Charles and Princess Diana advising them to get divorced. Dean Martin dies on Christmas Day, aged 78. His tombstone is engraved with the words "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime." |
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Darts: the 1994 runner-up and two-time BDO Champion Phil Taylor wins the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) World Championship. He beats Rod Harrington in the final, 6-2. |
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Man Booker Prize Winner: Pat Barker The Ghost Road |
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