A look back at the music and news stories making the headlines in 1989, the year that saw Scottish bands Texas and Deacon Blue dominate the music charts and Batman become the highest-grossing movie of the year.

In sport, Scotsman Jocky Wilson won the World Darts Championship for the second time. Across the UK, unemployment was on the decline, but in Scotland there was widespread opposition to the introduction of a new community charge known as poll tax.

George HW Bush became the 41st president of the United States, while across Eastern Europe the Iron Curtain started to fall amid the break up of several communist regimes, and the Berlin Wall finally crumbled. Show less