Here we look back at some photos of Oxfordshire in the 1980s from the Oxford Mail archive.
A four-year-old boy was sent a general election polling card, football manager Ron Atkinson was in the city, and a donkey downed a pint in Thame.
The donkey in question lived at the Abingdon Arms pub in Thame in 1984 and was called Noddy.
Noddy looked like a real charmer, but he was nothing but trouble for landlord Wayne Bonner.
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He bought the eight-month-old donkey after reading an advertisement in the Oxford Mail.
Mr Bonner said: "He seemed like a bargain, so I bought him to liven up the pub.
"He likes attention, and he's great when he's in the bar, because he's drinking then."
Noddy was known to attack the pub's cook and take a nip out of his landlord.
In May that year, the animal escaped and sunk his teeth into a police officer who tried to catch him.
In May 1981, four teenagers braved the wet and cold to experience living on the streets of Oxford.
The Abingdon School pupils raised about £40 in sponsorship for Oxford's Simon House for their efforts.
The four travelled from the villages of South Oxfordshire to the Oxford hostel for the homeless for a four-day charity trip.
One of the teenagers, Lance Latham, celebrated his 17th birthday while on the road with a cold supper of beans and bread, and the group said they found local people 'shunning them' as they travelled.
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He said: "It was amazing how people's attitudes towards us were different.
"We had never experienced it before, some of them were actually rather unpleasant."
And in February 1982, sex shop protesters claimed they were drenched with water when they set up a picket outside the 'private shop' in Cowley Road.
About 30 women from Women Against Violence Against Women picketed the sex shop for three hours as part of a national day of action against pornography.
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Inside the shop, manager Bob Jackson claimed the picket had cut trade to just six customers.
He said: "It certainly does affect business. On a normal Saturday we have maybe 200 people come in."
One of the women said when they arrived staff poured water on protesters from an upstairs window, although Mr Jackson denied any knowledge of it.
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