1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980   Pay rises of up to 74 per cent for 14,000 hospital workers Colour TV licence goes up £6 to £18, black and white £1 to £7 Vietnam war ends Senior NHS official says nearly half of the 5,000 pay beds in hospitals have been permanently closed Britain's jobless exceed a million Thirty-two elderly passengers are killed in Britain's worst road accident when atourist coach plunges into a ravine in the Yorkshire Dales Britons endorse EEC membership in referendum Dutch elm disease changes the face of rural England     Copyright © 1998, NHS