P105 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                               * 4 Feb - Margaret Thatcher announces  that the government will sell half of  its shares in British Aerospace.  * 6 Feb - The Liverpool-registered  coal ship Nellie M is bombed and sunk  by an IRA unit driving a hijacked  pilot boat in Lough Foyle.  * 9 Feb - Shirley Williams resigns  from Labour's national executive  committee.  * 9 Feb - Actor Sir Laurence Olivier,  cancer researcher Sir Peter Medawar  and humanitarian Leonard Cheshire are  admitted into the Order of Merit in  the New Year's Honours list.   Next       Prev       Home        End