THE DAILY ECHO have been raiding their archives to offer readers another look back through time.

August 1998 was when Manchester United FC became the world’s second football team to have their own television channel, Manchester United TV. The first was Middlesbrough in 1997 with Boro TV.

Later in the month Reading FC moved to their new Madejski Stadium in the south of Reading. The 24,161 capacity stadium was named after its chairman John Madejski.

On August 15, a bomb planted by the Real Irish Republican Army exploded in the Northern Irish market town of Omagh, County Tyrone. The attack claimed the lives of 29 people and is considered by many to be the worst terrorist atrocity in the history of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

The stuff of science-fiction fans dreams came true when, on August 24, the first radio-frequency identification device as a human implant was tested in the United Kingdom by Kevin Warwick at the University of Reading. This meant that Warwick could be identified and tracked.

That same day the Netherlands was selected to hold the trial of the two Libyans who were charged with the Lockerbie aircraft bombing which killed 270 people in December 1988.