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On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, The Gazette carried a story about the first day of a General Medical Council hearing in which a Blackpool surgeon was alleged to have breached 12 serious professional misconducts.

Steven Walker was later handed a 21-month suspended sentence in 2004 for admitting the manslaughter of a 71-year-old woman at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.

Yet even as Gazette readers were settling down to read the story about the surgeon and shaking out the pages of the paper, an event was starting to unfold across the Atlantic that would be felt across the entire world.

9/11 attack: Remembering when the world watched America come under attack, two decades on