THE Runcorn Widnes bridge does have a name!

Halton Council has asked us to point out that it was officilly christened The Silver Jubilee Bridge in 1977.

The clarification follows a letter published in The World last week in which a reader was campaigning for our bridge to be named.

It was renamed after being widened during the Queen's silver jubilee year.

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