P115 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                    * 11 May - First performance of the  Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats at  the New London Theatre.  * 11 May - Peugeot closes the Talbot  car plant at Linwood, Scotland, which  was opened by the Rootes Group 18  years ago as Scotland's only car  factory.  * 12 May - Francis Hughes (aged 25)  becomes the second IRA hunger striker  to die in Northern Ireland.  * 13 May - Pope John Paul II was shot  and critically wounded by Mehmet Agca  in St Peter's Square. He was in grave  condition, losing three quarters of  his blood, undergoing six hours of   Next       Prev       Home        End