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- Oxford University dons refuse to grant Margaret Thatcher an honorary degree
- Clive Sinclair unveils the C5 electric car/bicycle
- Civil servant Clive Ponting cleared of breaking the Official Secrets Act after giving information about the Falklands War
- Prescription charges rise 40p to £2
- Three-year-old Ben Hardwick, Britain's youngest liver transplant patient, dies
- Britain's two million blood donors are to be tested for the AIDS virus
- Government announces a computerised screening programme to cut cervical cancer deaths
- Fire sweeps through the Bradford City football ground, killing more than 40
- More than 30 die in Staffordshire from Legionnaire's Disease
- Spectators are crushed as Liverpool fans riot at Heysel Stadium in Brussels
- Keith Castle, Britain's longest surviving heart transplant patient, dies six years after receiving his heart
- Live Aid concerts at Wembley and the JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, raise £40 million for Africa's famine-stricken poor
- The Church of England General Synod approves the ordination of women deacons
- Thirteen-year-old Ruth Lawrence wins a first class degree at Oxford
- Compact discs start to catch on, two years after their launch
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