As 2021 comes to an end, the Chronicle & Echo has put together a quiz to test your knowledge of some of the stories from the year.
See how many you can get? Answers are at the end of the gallery.
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Question 1 In January, we reported how farmer Joe Adams made a list of the most-littered brands having spent a year collecting rubbish along a two-mile stretch of road in Northamptonshire. Joe Adams collected 64 bags worth of bottles, packaging and cans on the B4036 near Daventry from March 2019 to March 2020. But what were the top three brands that he featured on his list?
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Question 2 The family behind a Northampton stationery shop has announced they were closing their doors. Colemans of Northampton had been trading in St Giles Street at the corner of Castilian Street. But when did the shop first open? A clue, it was a year of national celebrations...
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Question 3 The Starship Technologies delivery robots are now a familiar sight in Northampton...but which retailer brought them to the town?
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Question 4 Plans were revealed for, unsurprisingly, student flats for the former Debenhams store in the Drapery. But how many flats were proposed?