This time last year, social distancing, bubbles and coronavirus weren t being talked about. But, we are looking back our our predictions for 2020 and how many came true. Spoiler alert, many were heavily hit by Covid.
1 CENTRE PARK LINK ROAD OPEN TO BE DELAYED
What we said. The new Centre Park Link Road from Wilson Patten Street to Chester Road is expected to held tackle some of the traffic chaos on Bridge Foot. Work started in summer last year and council bosses say it will be complete by late 2020. But these things never run to time do they? We reckon it will be 2021 before the road opens to traffic.
Our most liked Instagram posts on 2020 IT has been a year like no other. In the midst of uncertainty, the Warrington Guardian Instagram page tried to lift people s spirits with images of hope, love and community spirit. With 2021 fast approaching we decided to look back at the biggest moments of the year with our ten most liked posts Instagram posts.
1. 861 likes: Tribute to the hard work of care home staff during the pandemic, April 18 These are some of the amazing staff at Westy Hall Care Home who worked tirelessly to keep residents safe and well during the height of the pandemic.
Warrington Market WARRINGTON Market has become the UK s first tech-powered market hall. The £11 million facility is using Yoello technology, a mobile ordering and payment platform, to allow customers to order food and drink safely, without staff contact, physical menus or queuing. Paul Blaney, market operations manager at Warrington Market, explained: When the market opened earlier this year, we knew we had to start looking into table ordering and to use some of the latest technology out there. I did some serious research into the different platforms and businesses that could help the market and Yoello came out on top. Being small, independent businesses, our traders are able to adapt very, very quickly and the Yoello platform has been able to help with their business resilience in these challenging times.
One of Britain s oldest Christmas trees has been dressed for the 98th time by a pensioner who remembers decorating the festive fir throughout her childhood.
Kathy Firth, 83, embellishes the artificial tree with decorations which have been in her family for decades when it takes pride of place in her home each year.
Her parents bought the tree - made from goose feathers - from Warrington Market to celebrate her older brother Frank s first Christmas in 1922.
Ms Firth, who has another brother Ralph and a sister Delpha, remembers the decoration fondly from her childhood.
The pensioner, from Walton, said: It had real candles on it and my mother used to put it on the fireplace and it seemed so big to us, though really it s tiny.