23 Dec 2020, 09:00
This summer there was no European Championship football or Olympic Games to distract us from the news, but at least nobody was talking about tiers.
In July, a celebrity chef withdrew plans to open a restaurant in Salford while an outspoken developer gave planning committee members a piece of his mind.
Byrne was due to open Blackfriar in Salford
BRIDGES BYRNED
…Celebrity chef Aiden Byrne has pulled out of a project to reopen Salford’s Blackfriars pub, a £2m scheme by developer Salboy, as a fine dining restaurant, in favour of a slightly more modest operation: selling cured meat out of a garage in Lymm. Given the choice between lobster thermidor within the confines of a grade two-listed building and hawking salami out of the boot of his car, Byrne chose the latter. And who can blame him? Cleaning out an old garage next to his Lymm eatery, the Church Green Pub, and flogging his own range of charcuterie seems like a much smaller financial risk in these uncert