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Major Peter Oweh, Common Cryer and Serjeant-at-Arms of the City of London, reading the dissolution proclamation at the Royal Exchange, London, on 31 May 2024. The dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom occurs automatically five years after the day on which Parliament first met following a general election, [1] or on an earlier date by royal proclamation at the advice of the prime ...
7 July - The News Show is rebranded as The 7 O'Clock News. UK Today ends after all of the BBC's regional centres are upgraded for digital broadcasting. However it wasn't until May that all 17 regional services became available on satellite due to the BBC broadcasting all seventeen different feeds on 17 different channels on satellite.
12 May – To mark the 80th anniversary of the coronation of King George VI, BBC Parliament shows Pathe's original coverage of the coronation and Pathe's colour film of the coronation processions to and from Westminster Abbey. This is the first time that BBC Parliament has used Pathe's archive to form the bulk of an archive broadcast. 2018
112 acts of Parliament were passed in 1980: 68 public general acts, 43 local acts and 1 personal act. indicates that an act is available to view at legislation.gov.uk, and indicates the location of the original act in the Parliamentary Archives.
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UK release of the film animation The Plague Dogs based on the novel of the same name by Richard Adams; the film is controversial as it contains some violence. 6 December – Droppin Well bombing : The Irish National Liberation Army kills seventeen people in a bomb attack at the Droppin Well Inn, Ballykelly, County Londonderry .
1 February – Debut of the game show Play Your Cards Right on ITV, presented by Bruce Forsyth. [5] 10 February – London Weekend Television launches Gay Life, a late night regional series for gay viewers airing on Sundays. It is the first UK television series specifically aimed at a gay audience and is aired for two series in 1980 and 1981. [6]
Following boundary changes in 1983, the BBC and ITN (Independent Television News) co-produced a calculation of how the 1979 general election would have gone if fought on the new 1983 boundaries. The following table shows the effects of the boundary changes on the House of Commons: [12]