The start of the ‘noughties’ saw a date that many people would never forget, on the 11th September 2001 a terrible tragedy unfolded live on our television screens when terrorists hijacked two planes and deliberately flew them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York killing thousands of innocent people. The first coins and banknotes of the Euro were introduced into 12 countries signalling the biggest cash changeover in history. A few years later Iceland suffered a financial meltdown as many banks failed. Britain’s first toll motorway opened around the North of Birmingham and RECo played a major part in the design and manufacture of many of it’s key structures. In three successive years the Lord of Rings movie trilogy was created and released to much adoration, little known web services began to emerge like YouTube and Facebook, how many of us would imagine how much of an impact these would make on our social life in the years to come. 2000s
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