In 1965 a blackout engulfed the whole of New York state, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and even parts of eastern Canada. It lasted 13 hours in some places, meaning families were left with nothing but candlelight and conversation.

NHS midwife Jennifer Stephenson, 32, and her husband, 35, first became aware that their bank, Nationwide, was about to start charging them 39.9 per cent interest on their overdraft when they got a newsletter from a third-party money saving service. The couple from Preston, who have three school-age children, both work full time but still fall short by around £200-300.

On Monday 6 April 2020 – exactly two weeks after Boris Johnson told England it was going into an unprecedented national lockdown – most of us were licking our wounds with banana bread and Zoom quizzes.

Lucy Harris had been sitting alone in the cold patient room at Southmead hospital in Bristol for over an hour, waiting to hear about the fate of her unborn baby

Bags are packed and coronavirus tests are under way; this is the week Johnny Jenkins, like thousands of other students across the UK, is finally able to go home.

On 30 December, the penultimate day of 2020, Sam Adams, 53, boarded a flight at Gatwick airport to start a new life in Lanzarote. The life coach from Brighton has had, by anyone’s standards, a difficult year.

Barbie and Ken were the original it couple. Sorry Gigi and Zayn, Barbie and Ken, who should have been given a Brangleina-style-moniker had the McMansion dream house.

Wendy Arundale worked at the Asda store on North Street, Middlesbrough for 32 years, two weeks and one day before retiring, aged 63, in July 2019.

The tram to Meadowhall shopping centre ran three times an hour. If you were lucky you could skip out after morning lectures and still be back in time for the afternoon session.

"My last memory of dad is squeezing his hand as he got into the ambulance. My brother, Nizam, 35, had called me to say dad’s breathing was getting worse and he needed to go to A&E.”

For most of the 2.2 million clinically vulnerable people in the UK, Sunday 22 March was the last time they stepped outside their front door.

If we travel back to the days BC (before coronavirus), the prospect of me choosing a night out over a night in was laughable.

By day four of presenting with coronavirus symptoms, on 19 March, Tobi Rachel Akingbade, from London, felt so scared she called NHS 111.

It was in late February when Katie*, 49, heard in the playground that a class from her son’s Essex school had been on a trip to Northern Italy over half term.

For the first time since 23 March, lockdown measures have been eased in England to allow people to see one person outside their household. Sophie Gallagher speaks to those making the most of Wednesday's rule change

It’s three days until the Irish abortion referendum and I am speaking to Professor Louise Kenny, who is getting ready to fly home.

Kylie, 32, who lives in Scotland, was 19 and in a relationship with her university boyfriend when she first needed to get the emergency contraceptive pill.

Lisa Marie Govan is 15 years old – as her Facebook profile clearly states. But in the two years she has had an account on the social platform, adult strangers have cyberflashed her hundreds of times, sending unsolicited sexual messages and pictures.

By 2042, Theresa May has promised a United Kingdom that creates zero ‘avoidable’ plastic waste, or those single-use items, that are used once and then sent straight to landfill.

It had been almost 10 years since Jeremy, 57, last had sex. After his partner of 13 years, Danny, died from bowel cancer in 2009, he slipped into a period of depression, becoming disillusioned with love and relationships.