9th January 2003:
Millenial Meltdown
by Foreign Correspondent

In major international news last night, at midnight (GMT) the millenium bug hit all computer systems around the world.
It turns out it had got stuck in a tailback on the M25, the motorway circulating the busy capital of London, England.
Fortunately for the world as a whole, the entire effect of the bug was that trains were delayed accross the industrialised world, so its effects went unnoticed.