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8:31am Saturday 25th September 2010

10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 25, 2000 AMATEUR aircraft investigators have unearthed parts of two Hurricane fighter planes which crashed on Bolton moorland 50 years ago.

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8:32am Saturday 25th September 2010

1066: Harold of England defeated the Norwegians under Harold Hardrada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire, unaware that William of Normandy was preparing to invade the south coast.

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9:22am Wednesday 22nd September 2010

10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 22, 2000 BOLTON teachers have been sent to the top of the class for helping children improve their grasp of English and maths.

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9:23am Wednesday 22nd September 2010

1735: Sir Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister to move into 10 Downing Street.

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2:09pm Tuesday 21st September 2010

10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 21 2000 MEMBERS of a project designed to combat bullying across Bolton will present a first performance of a new play written and directed by teenagers tonight.

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2:09pm Tuesday 21st September 2010

19BC: Virgil, the Roman poet, died and his tomb in Naples became a shrine.

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9:17am Tuesday 21st September 2010

10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, September 21, 2000 A SNIPER brought terror to a Radcliffe school when he fired an air gun at a group of pupils.

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9:17am Tuesday 21st September 2010

19BC: Virgil, the Roman poet, died and his tomb in Naples became a shrine.

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10:07am Monday 20th September 2010

10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 16, 2000 A BOLTON couple have been forced to call off moving house because a nearby mobile phone mast has slashed the value of their home by almost two thirds.

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10:07am Monday 20th September 2010

1387: The future Henry V of England was born in Monmouth Castle in Wales. “Bluff” Prince Hal became a ruthless king who fought two bloody campaigns which came to a climax at Agincourt. In 1422 he died unheroically of dysentery.