P130 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                * 14 Sept - Cecil Parkinson is  appointed chairman of the Conservative  Party.  * 17 Sept - A team of divers begins  removing gold ingots worth £40 million  from the wreck of HMS Edinburgh, sunk  off the coast of Norway in 1942.  * 18 Sept - David Steel tells  delegates at the Liberal Party  conference to "go back to your  constituencies and prepare for  government", hopes of which are  boosted by the fact that most opinion  polls now show the SDP-Liberal  Alliance in the lead.   Next       Prev       Home        End