Review of the Year - January

The year started with a sharp hike in travel costs. Car sales were sinking. Then, in mid January, Tesco delivered an absolute results stinker. The results were so bad that its share price tanked more than 15% in one day.

Then there was worry about benefits being pegged regionally. But a brief cheer for the return of weekly bin collections - if you were lucky.%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%