Memorial service to be held to remember two police officers shot dead in the line of duty ten years ago

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A memorial service will take place on Sunday morning to mark the 10th anniversary of the murder of two police officers. Families of PCs Nicola Hughes and Fiona bone are expected to attend the public event outside Hyde police station where they were based.

PC Hughes, 23, from Saddleworth, and PC Bone, 32, from Sale, were shot dead by fugitive Dale Cregan on September 18, 2012 - it was one of the darkest days in British policing.

Their killer had been on the run, after murdering gangland rivals Mark Short and his father David, that summer. He lured the two officers to an address in Mottram in Langdendale, near Hattersley, with a bogus report of a burglary.

He shot them dead and threw a grenade on their bodies. Cregan is serving a whole life sentence for four murders. READ MORE:Two people rushed to hospital after emergency services scrambled to crash A service outside Hyde police station on Sunday morning, which is expected to be attended by the families of both officers as well as former colleagues, politicians and council officials, will mark the tenth anniversary of their deaths.