direct to your inboxThere's no simple way to sum up 2020.Overwhelming, terrifying, resilient, heroic and hopeful - life, at times this year, seemed to be all those things and a hundred others all at once.Schools closed, supermarket shelves were emptied, millions of people were furloughed or working from home and our high streets became ghost towns.Few people will regard 2020 with fondness.But in years to come many will remember it with pride.Here we take a look back at the headlines of the last 12 months.There's no other place to start.
The first mention of 'coronavirus' in the Manchester Evening News came on January 16 when we reported UK hospitals had been 'put on alert' after the first case was discovered in Japan - a man in his 30s.
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