10 March 1981

Tuesday 10 March

1981-03-10

Charts
BBC R1 12.45 Paul Burnett including this week's Top 40 discs, your first chance to hear the new chart.


 * Singles: NN1 Roxy Music - Jealous Guy (3), N2 Adam & The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier (6), N3 Joe Dolce Music Theatre - Shaddap You Face (1). N6 Kim Wilde - Kids in America (18), N7 Shakin' Stevens - This Ole House (29). HNE/N20 Phil Collins - I Missed Again, NE/N26 Duran Duran - Planet Earth, NE/N39 New Order - Ceremony.

Events

 * The Spring Budget is presented to UK parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe.
 * This was Howe's second budget and the second of the Thatcher leadership and was presented at a time of significant economic hardship in the UK. Inflation was running at 15% and manufacturing output was down by 9% over the previous year with unemployment up by one million. In budget measures, the price of a pint of beer went up 4p, spirits went up 60p, wine up 12p, and 20 cigarettes up 13p. Petrol duty went by by up a significant 20p per gallon.