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THIS week Memories honours the Royals in 1981, with Ormskirk's golden boy George Longstaff picking up his Duke of Edinburgh Award at Buckingham Palace.

The 18-year-old, of St Helens Road, was a student at Preston College and gained the gold award after passing his bronze and silver awards.

He had to do advanced first aid work, a 50-mile walk in four days, and a spell as a helper at a home in North Yorkshire.

THIS week we go back to 1980, the year JR was shot and Juliet Bravo showed Jean D'Arblay struggling for female equality in a fictional Lancashire village.

It was also the year that the Brooklands Cricket team took on each other in a 'Superstars' competition.

First team skipper Derek Anderton, Mark Swindlehurst, Roger Finn, Jack Call, who also chairman of Ormskirk Rugby Club, Don Pratt and Dave Brighouse entered into the spirit of the occasion.

WHIZZ kids from Rainford got the better of Coronation Street’s Ken Barlow back in the early eighties.

Actor William Roache took part in a computer golf tournament with Jennifer Singfield, seven, and her brother Alan, nine.

But he met his match with the youngsters who took part in Granada series, “Chip In�, in August 1983.