2000

Top Selling Singles

1. Baha Men – Who Let The Dogs Out
2. Sonique – It Feels So Good
3. Eminem – The Real Slim Shady
4. Gabrielle – Rise
5. All Saints – Pure Shores
6. Fragma – Toca’s Miracle
7. S Club 7 – Reach
8. Robbie Williams – Rock DJ
9. Westlife – I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun
10. Craig David – Fill Me In

Christmas No.1: Bob The Builder – Can We Fix It

Top Selling Albums

1. THE BEATLES – 1
2. ROBBIE WILLIAMS – SING WHEN YOU’RE WINNING
3. EMINEM – THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP
4. WESTLIFE – COAST TO COAST
5. MOBY – PLAY
6. CRAIG DAVID – BORN TO DO IT
7. NOW SERIES (UK) – NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! 47
8. TEXAS – THE GREATEST HITS
9. COLDPLAY – PARACHUTES
10. WHITNEY HOUSTON – WHITNEY: THE GREATEST HITS

At the Box Office

1. Toy Story 2
2. Gladiator
3. Chicken Run
4. American Beauty
5. Stuart Little
6. Mission:Impossible 2
7. Billy Elliot
8. X-Men
9. The Beach
10. What Lies Beneath

Cost of Living

Average house price	£125,747
Average salary
Average car price
Petrol
Pint of beer	£2.00
Packet of 20 Cigarettes	£3.67
Pint of milk	36p

In the News

• Prime Minister – Tony Blair (Labour)
• Carmaker Nissan launches the Almera
• Dr. Harold Shipman is sentenced to life imprisonment
• Ken Livingstone, becomes the first directly elected Mayor of London
• The Tate Modern art museum is opened to the public in London.
• Tony Blair receives a hostile reception during a speech at the Women’s Institute, where he is heckled and slow hand-clapped by furious members.
• The much-anticipated Millennium Bridge across the Thames in London opens to the public, but has to close after it starts swaying
• Locally it was the murder of 8 year old Sarah Payne
• The Queen Mother celebrates her hundredth birthday
• There were fuel protests, leading to panic buying and shortages
• A missile is fired from a rocket launcher at the MI6 headquarters building in central London, striking the eighth floor.
• The original Wembley Stadium closes after seventy-seven years.
• Madonna marries British film producer Guy Ritchie

On the Telly

• Channel 4 airs The Biggest Breakfast Ever, an eight-hour overnight millennium special with Johnny Vaughan and Liza Tarbuck.
• Gillian Taylforth leaves her EastEnders role as Kathy Beale.
• Fiona Bruce presents her first episode of Crimewatch alongside Nick Ross, following the murder of her predecessor Jill Dando.
• BBC One airs the first episode of Monarch of the Glen.
• Gary Barlow makes his acting debut in the 150th episode of Heartbeat, playing a hitchhiker named Mike Shannon
• Ainsley Harriott replaces Fern Britton as the presenter of Ready Steady Cook.
• Big Brother debuts in the UK on Channel 4.
• The Weakest Link airs on BBC Two, presented by Anne Robinson
• The Slaters arrive on Albert Square
• BBC Two airs a special edition of TOTP2 featuring the hits of John Lennon and presented by Yoko Ono
• Steve Redgrave is named as this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
• The British Film Institute publishes its list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century. Fawlty Towers tops the list, followed by Cathy Come Home and Doctor Who.

Top Selling Christmas Toys

• Teksta Robotic Dog
• Micro Scooter
• Amazing Ally

Gadgets

• Nintendo Gameboy
• PlayStation 2

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