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A LOT has changed in our region since the mid -1980s. The year 1985 was a tumultuous time in British history, with landmark change and seminal moments that have helped shape the modern day. It was a year that is best known for a host of disparate events. In 1985, the Live Aid pop concerts in Philadelphia and London raised over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia. In April of that year, Coca-Cola introduced “New Coke” in what many observers declared to be the worst marketing blunder in history. The wreck of the RMS Titanic was also finally located at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia. ....