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The task of renovating Redgrave Post Office and Stores was continuing with terms being negotiated with suppliers, tenants and employees being given new contracts.
Elsewhere, Britain handed Hong Kong back to China and the 1996 Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, were held in Atlanta Georgia, United States.
Alan Shearer became the most expensive footballer in the world in a £15,000,000 transfer to Newcastle.
Dolly the sheep was cloned and , Howard Hughes was found guilty and jailed for life for the savage murder and sexual assault of Sophie Hook.
The Ulster Troubles’ continued, but with arrests made and the Stone of Scone, aka the Stone of Destiny, was returned to Scotland.
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