FLASHBACK Thursday transports you back 30 years this week with a revisit to the 1988 archives.
Other notable events in 1988 were:
•The first BBC Red Nose Day raises £15m for charity
•Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving UK prime minister this century, having been in power for eight years
•The Prince of Wales narrowly avoids death in an avalanche while on a skiing holiday in Switzerland.
•Three gay rights activists invade the BBC television studios during the six o'clock bulletin of the BBC News.
•Paul Gascoigne, a 21-year-old midfielder, becomes the first £2,000,000 footballer signed by a British club when he leaves Newcastle United and joins Tottenham Hotspur.
Here are a selection of pictures from the Basingstoke Gazette in 1988.
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