Merry Christmas, 2008!

Merry Christmas and all the very best for 2009, folks! Here's a 1985 magazine ad featuring the lovely Su Pollard (Peggy from Hi-De-Hi!) and an assortment of toys and games which delighted youngsters at Christmas that year. A Tomy Lights Alive? Care Bears? Trivial Pursuit? My Little Pony? The choice was yours!

Have fun, be good, and see you again in 2009...

1983: Tony Blair - The Shape Of Things To Come...

Daily Mirror, May, 1983...

Pat Phoenix, Elsie Tanner of Coronation Street, was a staunch supporter of Old Labour and here she is with two young election hopefuls, Cherie and Tony Blair and her partner, Tony Booth - father of the aforementioned Cherie and one time "Scouse git" to Warren Mitchell's Alf Garnett.