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Lyneham On This Day

Welcome to Lyneham On This Day. A history in the making....

Events occur, people do remarkable things, special days in our lives, and things happen and go by. Often, we sit back and think, when did so and so happen, what was I doing on that day. Was it really that long ago when that happened. Time flies by and we forget.

More often than not, there are certain events that stick out more that others, you can vividly remember what you was doing when this occured. We have a little reminder here of events that occured on this day. Basically a history in the making, an archived records of events.

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12 March 1988

Edwina Curry Egg Scandal

 

Health minister Edwina Currie provoked outrage by saying most of Britain's egg production is infected with the salmonella bacteria. She weathered the political storm for a further two weeks before mounting writs against her from the farming industry forced her resignation. As egg sales plummeted, the government was forced to offer a compensation package of millions of pounds to cover the cost of purchasing surplus eggs and for the slaughter of unwanted hens.

 
 

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