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This year features a football World Cup, a Winter Olympics, a Commonwealth Games and a historic Test match

Exclusive: Pilot scheme launches as one in five start primary school with no protection against deadly diseases

The UK set a number of new records during a tumultuous year of weather.

The whole of England has been placed under an amber cold health alert by the UK Health Security Agency

Hospitals brace for new year surge in sick patients as temperatures plummet and with 95% of beds full

A very Long Wave-coded book, a landmark Nigerian film and more Black art and culture on its way in the next 12 months

Data shows 366 pubs have been demolished or converted for other uses this year as cost pressures take toll on sector

The yellow weather warning is in place between midnight and noon on Friday.

I was walking in Alice Holt Forest on England’s Surrey-Hampshire border when I stopped to listen. Despite there being nobody nearby, a slow “breathing” sound filled my ears. This was not a trick. An artwork was turning live forest data into sound, making the air feel like it was gently…