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Did you know that the world’s first RADAR demonstration took place in Daventry on February 26 1935? The technology’s pioneer, Robert Watson-Watt, was able to detect the passage of an RAF Handley Page bomber using equipment mounted in a Flatnose Morris van parked in a field near Weedon a little outside the town.

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John Wilkins
Thomas Randolph

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It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better - GK Chesterton
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Tolpuddle Martyrs Sentenced - 1834, Argentine Forces land on South Georgia - 1982
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