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28/02/2011

"I counted them all out..."

1982 was the year of the Falklands War and the late Brian Hanrahan’s celebrated report from the aircraft carrier, HMS Hermes.

Identify the words that have been replaced by their initial letters from the following 1982 headlines.

There are 2 separate sets of initials in each question.

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1.

MT disappears during the P-DR

Mark Thatcher;

Paris-Dakar Rally

2.

Publication of DA’s L,TUAE

Douglas Adam;

Life, The Universe and Everything

3.

Body of ‘GB’ found hanging beneath BB

God’s Banker;

Blackfriars Bridge

4.

First NS opened as a rebrand of H

Next Store;

Hepworths

5.

FS launched across Europe replacing the FC

Ford Sierra

Ford Cortina

6.

BF top charts with TLOMB

Buck’s Fizz;

The Land of Make Believe

7.

LG resigns in the wake of the FW

Leopoldo Galtieri;

Falklands War

8.

CAD’s first child christened WAPL

Charles and Diana;

William Arthur Philip Louis

9.

CF starts with CHBRW

Channel Four;

Countdown hosted by Richard Whiteley

10.

GV killed just before the BGP

Gilles Villeneuve;

Belgium Grand Prix