1995 in Wales - Events

Events

  • 3 January - Tower Colliery re-opens under the ownership of the workforce buy out company Goitre Tower Anthracite.
  • 1 February - Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers disappears.
  • 16 February - In the Islwyn by-election brought about by the resignation of Neil Kinnock, Don Touhig is elected as Labour MP for the constituency.
  • April - TBI plc purchases Cardiff-Wales Airport from Glamorgan County Council.
  • 30 July - Police in North Wales launch a murder inquiry after the body of seven-year-old Sophie Hook (who had gone missing from a nearby house during the night) is found on a beach near Llandudno by a man walking his dog.
  • 6 August - Howard Hughes, a 30-year-old Colwyn Bay man, is charged with the murder of Sophie Hook.
  • 20 November - The Princess of Wales gives a revealing interview to Martin Bashir on the Panorama current affairs programme on BBC One television, discussing her adultery and personal problems in candid detail.
  • 20 December - The Queen writes to The Prince and Princess of Wales urging them to divorce as soon as possible.
  • Welsh historian Sir Rees Davies is appointed to the Chichele Chair of Medieval History at the University of Oxford.
  • Historian Glanmor Williams is knighted.
  • Diver Keith Hurley discovers the wreck of the Resurgam off Rhyl.

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