Website design By BotEap.comHere are the biggest news, sports and entertainment stories of 1993…

Website design By BotEap.comBritain’s longest recession since the 1930s has officially ended as the economy grew in the first three months of the year. Conservatives took credit for the rebound in fortunes, but critics claimed it was luck more than anything else. However it was achieved, it was well received by the people of the nation who could now look forward to spending again.

Website design By BotEap.comA new place they could spend to be Buckingham Palace; the public was first allowed in during the summer of ’93. Since the entrance fee was set at £8, it wasn’t cheap, but that did nothing to curb demand; within a week of going on sale, all group advance booking slots to visit Buckingham Palace had been filled for the next three years.

Website design By BotEap.comOther news included an oil tanker carrying it ran aground near the Shetland Islands (resulting in the spill of 84,700 tonnes of crude oil into the North Sea and a major ecological catastrophe); and anti-racist demonstrations across London in response to the dropping of criminal charges against two young men accused of murdering black teenager Stephen Lawrence.

Website design By BotEap.comIn the world of sport, the great horse racing event ‘The Grand National’ (with a worldwide audience of 300 million people) ended in ‘chaos’ after many of the jockeys did not realize that they had called a false start and they set off. the El Jockey Club racetrack was forced to declare the race void; meaning that the bookmakers had to return the £75m in bets that had been placed on the race (and miss out on their biggest payday of the year!).

Website design By BotEap.comOn a personal mission to solve alien-related ‘chaos’ were FBI agents ‘Mulder & Scully’; his popular US series ‘X-Files’ crossing the Atlantic for UK screens. Motivated by the belief that Mulder’s sister had been kidnapped by little green men, they set out to find the ‘truth’. One place the truth definitely wasn’t was on the couch in ‘Beavis & Butthead.’ These guys spent ’93 becoming world famous for flipping TV channels and playing soccer with frogs.

Website design By BotEap.comWith Britain itself still struggling to find its own blockbuster movies, ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Indecent Proposal’ were the top films to hit theaters during the year. ‘Jurassic Park’ involved dinosaurs (real and really scary looking ones!) running around a theme park created by an eccentric millionaire. ‘Indecent Proposal’ was another story involving a rich man (this time a billionaire played by Robert Redford); this guy offers a couple, who had just lost a fortune in Vegas, $1 million to spend the night with his wife.