What happened in the UK in 1995?

1995 thriller in larger political, sports and entertainment news, here's what happened ...

Britain's oldest bank collapsed merchant bank Barings', because of the shadowy machinations of the "Rogue Trader" Nick Leeson, who somehow managed 860 pounds in a secret 'error account' to hide unnoticed. Collapse was also the moral standards of young people in Brixton, hundreds of whom took to attack the police, looting shops and burning cars in turmoilsouth London.

The royal family is under the spotlight, this time because of Diana, Princess of Wales to speak openly on TV (15 million viewers) about her affair with her riding instructor James Hewitt. Not surprisingly, the queen was not happy, you could also have been unhappy that the letter she and her son Charles, Prince of Wales, wrote to say to get a divorce from Diana have been leaked to the press.

In sports, infamous kung-fu style of Eric CantonaKick receive much attention, the French fire between his anger on a Crystal Palace fan with just presented. Getting less attention, but deserves more, was the British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, the first woman to climb Everest without oxygen or assistance.

On British television screens, the nation fell in love with the inhabitants of the fictional Irish town Craggy Iceland, and his collection of dysfunctional priests (Father Ted, Dougal and FatherDrunken Jack's Father). While the service surreal good family comedy, the British have also demonstrated its thirst for some tuning action in large numbers in the literary productions of "Pride and Prejudice Sense 'and' Hearts and Minds". The prelude to the classic Jane Austen obsession for period dramas over the years to come.

The hit movie of the year was an interesting mix of Scottish history, a director and an Australian actor, Mel Gibson, screamed around without underpants Medieval CueEnglish folk with an incomprehensible accent. In contrast to the big screen sensation of one of the most expensive flops of all time funds, "Water World" was. Set in the future, where global warming, all countries have seen was in the water tried to do earlier years of success to emulate''Titantic ", but as they sunk!

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