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    Apr 02, 2020 2 minutes

    10 years ago AUGUST 2010

    • The last episode of The Bill, the UK’s longestrunning police procedural TV show was aired on 31 August. It was first screened in 1983.
    • Scots Makar Edwin Morgan died aged 90.

    40 years ago AUGUST 1980

    • actor Macauley Culkin was born• The Solidarity trade union was founded at Gdansk shipyard after a strike victory.

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