1988 in the United Kingdom

1988 in the United Kingdom:
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Events from the year 1988 in the United Kingdom.

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February 3- Nurses throughout the UK strike for higher pay and more cash for the National Health Service
March 6- The SAS shoot dead 3 IRA terrorists in Gibraltar
March 10- The Prince of Wales narrowly avoids death in an avalanche while on a ski-ing holiday in Switzerland. Major Hugh Lindsay, former equerry to the Queen is killed.
March 16- An Ulster Freedom Fighters terrorist, Michael Stone attacks and kills 6 mourners at the funeral of the 3 IRA members who died in Gibraltar.
March 19 - 2 British Army Corporals are killed by a mob after accidentally driving into a funeral cortege for the victims of the March 16 terrorist attack.
July 6- Piper Alpha disaster- a North Sea oil rig explodes, killing 167 workers.
July 28- Paddy Ashdown elected leader of the Liberal Democrats
September 30- A Gibraltar jury finds that the 3 IRA members killed on March 6 were killed "lawfully".
December 3- Health minister Edwina Currie provokes outrage by stating that most of Britain's egg production is infected with the salmonella bacteria. Egg sales plummet across the UK
December 12- Clapham rail crash- 35 people killed after three trains collide in the morning rush hour.
December 21- Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway killing the 259 passengers and crew on board the aircraft and 11 people on the ground.