On this day

17 YEARS AGO (2001)

Our front page urged people not to panic amid an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. It was first discovered among pigs at a farm in Essex.

21 YEARS AGO (1997)

Scientists at Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute revealed the birth of the world’s first successfully cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep.

7 YEARS AGO (2011)

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 struck Christchurch in New Zealand killing 185 and injuring several thousand.