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1988: The Peterborough Evening Telegraph reported on this day that, despite city councillors having decided that extra security for city flats was needed to beat thieves, vandals, vagrants and the like, their £475,000 scheme for entry phones and electric locks for every flat would not be completed until 2004, unless extra cash was found.

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.

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