1985 in Wales

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1985 in Wales
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1985 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1985

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1985 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

May 16 - Dean Hancock and Russell Shankland are convicted of murder at Cardiff Crown Court and jailed for life. The previous November, at the height of the miners' strike, they caused the death of a taxi driver by dropping a concrete block onto his car as it passed under a bridge.
June 29 - A55 Colwyn Bay Bypass completed.
July 4 - At the Brecon and Radnor by-election caused by the death of sitting Conservative MP Tom Ellis Hooson, local farmer Richard Livsey takes the seat for the Liberals.
December 20 - Swansea City, struggling in the English Third Division just three years after being in the First, are issued with a winding-up order in the High Court and are at risk of closure and being forced out of the Football League.^[1]
Terry Matthews sells his stake in Mitel to British Telecom.
Cefn is founded to campaign for the civil rights of Welsh speakers.
The Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies is founded at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Seventeen women are prosecuted on conspiracy charges after the occupation of a nuclear bunker near Carmarthen.

Robat Powell becomes the first Welsh learner to win the Chair at the National Eisteddfod (see below).

Downtown Julie Brown makes her debut on Club MTV.
"Dwylo Dros y Môr", performed by various artists, is the Welsh charity song released in coordination with Band Aid.
Aled Jones - Aled Jones With The BBC Welsh Chorus (album)
Living Legends - Better Dead Than Wed

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