TODAY:

On this day 17 YEARS AGO (2001)

Our front page reported the air raids on the Taliban in Afghanistan after 9/11 that struck major cities and Osama bin Laden’s training camp.

28 YEARS AGO (1990)

Some 500 million shares were traded in two hours on the UK’s first day in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

13 YEARS AGO (2005)

An earthquake in Kashmir, Pakistan and Afghanistan killed 73,000 people and made three million homeless. I used to be in a band called Lost Dog. You probably saw our posters.