About 1988
Thurrock residents tell of life under a 'bankrupt' council
... Thurrock Council, which covers an area of Essex just north of the Thames estuary, is merely one of an increasing number to have issued a notice under section 114 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 - effectively meaning the authority is bankrupt...
What are semiconductors and how are they used?
... Americo Lemos, CEO of IQE, a British semiconductor company founded 1988 - and a member of the panel - told the BBC the initial cash injection was " an important step forward" and a " very, very good investment"...
Where next for Scotland as the Nicola Sturgeon era ends?
... Was it though? The SNP had scored spectacular by-election successes before — Motherwell in 1945; Hamilton in 1967; and Glasgow Govan in 1973 and 1988 — only to lose each seat at the subsequent general election...
Nolly: Helena Bonham Carter on soaps, sexism and the death of cinema
... Having written for soaps himself early in his career - he even penned a trial script for Crossroads just before it was axed in 1988 - Davies was keen to give the late actress one more moment in the spotlight and examine why she was suddenly axed...
US court blocks Penguin merger with Simon & Schuster
... The company triggered major controversies with the 1960 publication of DH Lawrence s Lady Chatterley s Lover and The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie in 1988...
Jean-Luc Godard: Visionary director's life and films in pictures
... In his home country, he was awarded an Honorary César trophy twice, in 1987 and 1988 - with the latter presented by Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood...
Was moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse ahead of her time?
... Ofcom has its origins in the Broadcasting Standards Council set up in 1988 - the outcome of her decades long push for ordinary citizens to have an ongoing role in the monitoring of broadcasting standards...
Britain's fabulously cool' engineering innovation
... the image he produced, Quantel Paintbox (MacRobert winner: 1988)...