A blast from the past…
2003 – Shirley starts working at Insight Associates – yes it was before Facebook!
2004 – Facebook launched! ‘Blog’ is the word of the year and the iPod dominates the music playing market
2005 – The Worlds first partial face transplant.
2006 – Pluto is downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet. Google purchase YouTube.
2007 – Northern Rock Bank Collapsed. Madeleine McCann disappeared. The Final Harry Potter book released.
2008 – Lehman Brothers collapses and RBS, Lloyds and HBOS are rescued with taxpayers money. Barack Obama elected president.
2009 – The closure of Woolworths was completed across the UK.
2010 – Lady Gaga wore the meat dress. Apple released the first iPad. Angry birds was the favourite app.
2011 – Japanese Tsunami triggers nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daischi Nuclear Plant. Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Steve Jobs passes away after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
2012 – The London 2012 Olympics. Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee. Encyclopaedia Britannia ceases print.
2013 – Baroness Thatcher dies. Brexit referendum proposed.
2014 – Scotland votes to remain part of the UK. Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappears
2015 – Lewis Hamilton wins British Grand Prix. The Forth Bridge becomes a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
2016 – Britain votes to leave the EU and the 52/48 result splits the country. Donald Trump wins the US presidency.
2017 – UK car sales at a record high.The Red Cross describes the current situation in England’s NHS hospitals as a “humanitarian crisis”
2018 – A magnitude 4.4 earthquake hits South Wales. The effects are felt in Liverpool, Birmingham and Cornwall. The National Farmers Union elects Minette Batters, its first female president.
2019 – Theresa May resigns as Conservative Party Leader. Partial collapse of Toddbrook reservoir resulting in evacuations in parts of Derbyshire.
2020 – The UK’s EU withdrawal agreement is signed in Brussels and London. Storm Ciara batters the UK and we have the first confirmed cases COVID-19 Coronavirus in the UK.
How many did you remember?