On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.

It was an extraordinary news story.

The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,

mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.

One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan.

It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.

I'm Alex Fontunzelman.

This is The Lucan Obsession.

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So for us, lockdowns brought about substantial growth

that we just could never have imagined in our wildest dreams.

The arrival of the pandemic has meant that we have had to completely stop trading

and put the business into deep freeze.

As a large business, as a result of COVID, we did take a big hit, but we bounced back very quickly.

At the worst of the COVID crisis, the economy shrank by more than a fifth.

It's an important number. It was the worst fall since records began.

But a number like that can only give a very general sense of what actually happened during the pandemic and what might happen next.

In this four-part series, we're looking at some of the individual financial stories behind that figure,

from people to businesses to councils and the country.

There have been some real highs and some devastating lows.

This is The Hangover.

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