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• Breakfast time TV started on the BBC
• The wearing of car seatbelts became compulsory
• Police were looking for the kidnappers of Shergar, the Aga Khan’s 1981 Derby winner.
• The Hitler ‘diaries’ were published.
• Margaret Thatcher won a landslide second term election.
• The USA accused the USSR of shooting down a Korean airliner with the loss of 269 lives.
• The House of Lords voted in favour of allowing TV coverage of its proceedings.
• The first heart and lung transplant operation took place.
• £25 million in gold bullion was stolen from Heathrow’s Brinks Mat warehouse.

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The first meeting of Goole Town Council took place on 12th April, 1983 when 9 Councillors first met under the Chairmanship of Councillor Alfred Taylor.

At this time, the Council was discussing taking responsibility for the management of allotments from the former Boothferry Borough Council and looking to appoint its first Clerk. I now have the honour of being the Council’s longest serving Clerk having been in post for more than 10 years.

Goole Town Council is now a considerably different organisation in that it is one of the most active third tier authorities in the country and until March of this year one of 41 statutory Best Value Town Councils. It is also an Investor in People organisation.

The Council’s current responsibilities extend to the management of allotments, parks, gardens and open spaces, cemetery, sports grounds, play areas, markets, community centre, the GATE theatre, town arts programme, community arts, Town Centre CCTV including Snaith and Cowick and Howden, grants to voluntary organisations and in partnership with the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, the Town Bus service. It is also a key partner to the Goole Development Trust and Urban Renaissance Executive Board.

However, one of the major strengths of the Council is that it recognises that it cannot be a deliverer of all services and that many of the Council’s corporate objectives can be met by forging strong partnerships with the voluntary and social enterprise sectors.

The testimony of a number of our partners in the following pages emphasises the importance to the local community of this approach.