Bredbury Hall leads our best read stories review

ONCE again the nature of the best read stories of the year proves the old adage that bad news sells.

Our top 10 list is dominated by business failure but there was also room for unusual events such as a fighter jet being scrambled to accompany an airliner, and extreme weather.

On a stormy night in February the wind was so strong the windows at TheBusinessDesk.com towers were bending inwards. We sent a breaking news alert about the closure of the Thelwall Viaduct then worried we'd contributed to traffic gridlo... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...