1995

Top Selling Singles

1. Celine Dion – Think Twice
2. Robson Green & Jerome Flynn – Unchained Melody / White Cliffs Of Dover
3. The Outhere Brothers – Boom Boom Boom
4. The Outhere Brothers – Don’t Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)
5. Coolio featuring LV – Gangsta’s Paradise
6. Rednex – Cotton Eye Joe
7. Michael Jackson – You Are Not Alone
8. Take That – Back For Good
9. Simply Red – Fairground
10. Robson & Jerome – I Believe / Up On The Roof

Christmas No.1: Michael Jackson – Earth Song

Top Selling Albums

1. Robson Green & Jerome Flynn – Robson & Jerome
2. Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
3. Celine Dion – The Colour Of My Love
4. Simply Red – Life
5. Michael Jackson – History – Past, Present And Future, Book 1
6. Paul Weller – Stanley Road
7. Queen – Made In Heaven
8. Blur – The Great Escape
9. Wet Wet Wet – Picture This
10. Pulp – Different Class

At the Box Office

1. Batman Forever
2. Star Trek: Generations
3. Goldeneye
4. Casper
5. Die Hard With a Vengeance
6. Waterworld
7. Braveheart
8. Interview With the Vampire
9. Apollo 13
10. Dumb and Dumber

Cost of Living

Average house price	£59,939
Average salary	£15,000
Average car price
Petrol	50p/litre
Pint of beer	£1.66
Packet of 20 Cigarettes	£2.59
Pint of milk	36p/pint

In the News

• Prime Minister – John Major
• The British football transfer fee record is broken when Manchester United sign striker Andy Cole from Newcastle United in a deal valued at £7million.
• Footballer Eric Cantona, the French international forward, assaults a spectator after being sent off while playing for Manchester United against Crystal Palace in the FA Premier League. He is later fined £20,000, a ban for the rest of the season and faced a police investigation
• New domestic electrical appliances must be supplied with an appropriately fused pre-wired plug
• Rumbelows, the electrical goods retailer closes its 311 stores with the loss of more than 3,000 jobs.
• Barings Bank, the UK’s oldest merchant bank, collapses following $1,400,000,000 of losses by rogue trader, Nick Leeson. He is jailed for six-and-a-half years in Singapore
• 16 April – PhONEday changes all telephone area dialing codes UK-wide.
• John Major wins the Conservative Party leadership election, gaining 218 votes to John Redwood’s 89
• Pubs in England are permitted to remain open throughout Sunday afternoon for the first time
• Vauxhall unveils its new Vectra range of large family hatchbacks and saloons
• The Today newspaper is discontinued after nine years in circulation.
• Head teacher Philip Lawrence dies after being stabbed at the entrance of his school in Maida Vale, North London, where he was defending a pupil from a local teenage gang.
• It was the O.J Simpson trial – we all watched the proceedings on the TV. The trial spanned eleven months!

On the Telly

• Julie Goodyear leaves Coronation Street after nearly 30 years
• The Panorama interview where Diana, Princess of Wales, is interviewed by Martin Bashi
• Martine McCutcheon makes her EastEnders debut as Tiffany Raymond
• The most watched episode of Brookside was broadcast on Channel 4, where the body of Trevor Jordache was found under the patio.
• Father Ted shown for the first time
• Friends and ER shown on Channel 4 for the first time
• The first National Television Awards are held at the Wembley Conference Centre and presented by Eammon Holmes.
• Jim Davidson succeeds Bruce Forsyth as presenter of The Generation Game
• Hollyoaks shown for the first time
• The Mrs Merton Show
• Hamish Macbeth
• They Think It’s All Over
• Kavanagh QC
• Band of Gold

Top Selling Christmas Toys

• PlayStation,
• POGs,
• Beanie Baby,
• Sky Dancers
• Baby All Gone.

Gadgets

• Sony Playstation
• 1% of the UK population (some 600,000 people) now have internet access