© FREMANTLE MEDIA/THAMES TELEVISION 1980
3rd March 1980 and Robert Mugabe is about to win the election in Rhodesia and rename it to Zimbabwe.
Headlines:
- Robert Mugabe victory looks likely in Southern Rhodesian (Zimbabwean) election. "Salisbury" is now Harare.
- Lord Soames appeals on TV for calm after the result
- Fishermen who are lucky to be alive arrive back in Grimsby… TBH death is more desirable than living in Grimsby!
- Common Market set to bail out British Steel (one of many thousands of benefits of being an EU member!)
- Crazy old hag speaks about economics at a meeting
- Britain's Olympic athletes want to go to Moscow Olympics
- Six policemen held at Bishopsgate police station following a burglary at a tailor's shop
- Talks to resume between Colombian Governemnt and 13 guerrellas holding 13 people hostage
- Lord Denning says jury vetting by police is unconstitutional
- UN councillors in Iran given permission to visit hostages in US Embassy
- President Tito's Doctors say he is still in a grave condition
- IRA say they shot Corporal Stewart Leach/Leech/Leitch from near Taunton
- 35 injured in protests in Amsterdam involving squatters
- US court awards £18million to Bob Guccioni, owner of Penthouse Magazine. However it may all be in vain
- Britsh Leyland unveils the T45 truck
- RSPCA says fish do feel pain
- And finally... Welsh headmaster Bill Hopkins of Maesyrhandir Primary School, Newtown, gives 270 pupils time off from lessons to watch him have his head shaved.
End of News At Ten
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