February 11
Akosua Achie, of Peggotty Place, Sandhurst, was fined £220 for not paying for her train ticket in North Camp in October 2020. The 60-year-old was also told to pay compensation of £8 and £150 in costs at Reading Magistrates Court.
Adam Waite, of Highfield Park, Wokingham, was also fined £220 for dodging a train faire at Reading Station in October 2020. The 22-year-old was made to pay compensation of £4 and costs of £150, as well.
Stephen Wcledge, of Carlyle Court, Crowthorne, was handed a £220 fine for not paying for his train ticket at Slough station in October 2020. The 43-year-old was ordered to pay compensation of £2.90 and costs of £150, too.
On a night when bars are usually crowded, homes are typically filled with guests and celebrations ring out on busy city streets, New Year’s Eve was expected to be a quiet, lonelier night in 2020.
Instead of ringing in the new year with midnight champagne surrounded by friends, most people in southeastern Connecticut and across the globe found themselves saying farewell, or good riddance, to 2020 safely in their homes, cozy on their couches with their closest family.
In Waterford, Nancy and Jim Butler, both in their 70s, planned to ring in the new year at home, watching a livestream of the New York City ball drop and enjoying a chocolate dessert. It would be the first time in 35 years that they weren’t going to be on a dance floor when the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve.