• I visited Runcorn for the first time this week – and was blown away by its magic | Adrian Chiles

    Decades after I first befriended one of the town’s sons, I finally got to see the place – or at least its glorious bridgeIs it possible to have a soft spot for a place you’ve never been to and know next to nothing about? I think it is, in my case anyway, for I have developed warm feelings for Runcorn. On reflection, this has been in the making, quietly, in my subconscious, for a long time. In the last century, I was at university with a lad from Runcorn and, as he is the only p

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