A hotel collapsing into administration, the creators of a women’s urinal securing major funding and the best places to live in the West Country are among the most-read South West stories of 2022.
In a year that many businesses hoped to start recovering from the impact of the Covid pandemic, the UK has been faced with serious economic and political turmoil. The country has had three prime ministers and two monarchs in the space of just 12 months.
Although most of the UK's Covid restrictions were finally lifted in the first quarter of the year, the world was rocked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, leading to surging inflation as the cost of petrol and energy soared.
