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Gambling trap Illicit sites target addicts who are attempting to quit
The Long family are facing up to their second Christmas without their eldest son.
5 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Arbitration service offers to step in to break deadlock in doctors' strike
The conciliation service Acas has offered to help to try to break the deadlock in the resident doctors' strike in England.
2 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Par for the course? Why Ryder Cup hero McIlroy may miss Spoty cut once again
It has been a 2025 for the ages for Rory McIlroy. He cemented his legacy by completing a career grand slam with victory at the Masters.
3 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Leftwinger expelled by Labour to lead UK's largest trade union
The UK's largest trade union, Unison, is on a potential collision course with Labour after it ousted a leader with close links to Keir Starmer in favour of a leftwinger who was expelled from the party three years ago.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Russia targeting European finance bosses and politicians over assets
Belgian politicians and senior finance executives have been subject to a campaign of intimidation orchestrated by Kremlin intelligence aimed at persuading the country to block the use of €185bn of frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, according to European intelligence agencies. Security officials indicated to the Guardian that there had been deliberate targeting of key figures at Brussels-based Euroclear, the securities depository holding the majority of Russia's frozen assets, and leaders of the country.
3 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
The ‘winter’ crisis that never stops A day in the life of a Midlands hospital
Thirteen ambulances are lined up at the rear of the emergency department of the Royal Stoke university hospital as Dr AnnMarie Morris, the hospital trust's deputy medical director, walks towards the entrance, squinting in the low afternoon sun.
6 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
'It should be better than that' England weigh up complaint after Snicko error spares Carey
England are considering a formal complaint over the Snicko technology being used in this Ashes series after Alex Carey received a lifeline en route to a telling century on the opening day of the third Test.
2 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Trump trade deals 'built on sand', say senior MPs
Ministers and senior MPs said yesterday the UK's agreements with Donald Trump were \"built on sand\" after the Guardian established that the deal to avoid drug tariffs had no underlying text beyond limited headline terms.
4 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Former Labour mayor Driscoll joins Greens
Jamie Driscoll, the former Labour metro mayor for North of Tyne who later played a role setting up Your Party, has joined the Greens.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Five more countries, including Syria, added to US travel ban list
Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Tuesday that further restricts and limits the entry of foreign nationals to the US, the White House said.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Sales at Stella McCartney fall 27% amid fears of cash crisis by 2028
Sales at Stella McCartney’s fashion label sank by more than a quarter last year, tipping it further into the red and adding to fears it could run out of money by 2028.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Flu jabs Demand leads to shortage of appointments
Soaring demand has resulted in a shortage of flu jab appointments in England, the Guardian can reveal.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Celtic CEO hits out at 'assaults' as Lawwell exits Parkhead
Celtic's chair, Peter Lawwell, has announced he is to stand down, citing \"intolerable\" treatment from a section of the club's support, with the club's chief executive, Michael Nicholson, revealing that three of their colleagues were \"assaulted\" after the Scottish League Cup final defeat by St Mirren on Sunday.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Met and GMP pledge crackdown on ‘intifada’ chants at Gaza war protests
Police in London and Manchester have pledged a further crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrations, saying they will arrest anyone chanting the words \"globalise the intifada\" or holding a placard with the phrase on it.
3 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Study reveals scale of Alzheimer's-like changes in over-70s
One in 10 people in the UK aged 70 and older may have Alzheimer's-like changes in their brain, according to the clearest real-world picture of how common the disease's brain changes are in older people.
2 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Posthumous Giuffre memoir sells 1m copies in two months
The posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s best-known accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has sold 1m copies worldwide in the two months after its release.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Khawaja cashes in after double reprieve
Veteran batter thrust back into limelight by Smith's absence made the most of an early drop to show his class
3 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
WCL roundup Kerr sends Chelsea into quarter-finals
Chelsea clinched an automatic place in the Women’s Champions League quarterfinals by coming from behind to stun Wolfsburg and avoid having to contest February’s playoffs.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Starmer gets an early Christmas present as he cracks a good joke - and makes MPs laugh
Whisper it softly, but Keir Starmer made a joke.
2 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Reform Watchdog to assess election spending claims
Nigel Farage is facing a possible second investigation into allegations he overspent on his Clacton election battle by £9,000 after the watchdog said it was assessing the claims.
2 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Beachy Head Woman not African but a 'local girl from Eastbourne'
Beachy Head Woman, a Roman-era skeleton once hailed as the earliest known black Briton and who scientists later speculated could be of Cypriot descent, has now been shown to have originated from southern England.
2 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
UK inflation falls sharply to 3.2% as food prices rise more slowly
UK inflation fell more than expected in November amid a slowdown in food price rises.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Savinho and Cherki turn on style as City sweep into semi-final
Pep Guardiola cites how his team must grow during the season and with each outing of this campaign Manchester City suggest greater control and composure.
3 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
New Zealand Rural towns struggle to survive amid mass exodus
For generations, two centres of gravity in New Zealand’s central Ruapehu region had enough pull to entice people to the area and keep them there: the mountains and the mills.
4 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Chalamet names singer Susan Boyle as one of greatest Britons
When Susan Boyle sang I Dreamed a Dream during her Britain's Got Talent audition in 2009, she wowed audiences with her voice and passion.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Suspects Pair spent four weeks in hotel in Philippines
The Bondi terror attack suspects spent their entire four-week visit to the Philippines in Davao City, rarely leaving their hotel room except for an hour or so at a time, and never talking to other guests or receiving visitors, according to police and hotel staff.
2 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Pharma deal with US ‘still little more than press releases’
\"historic\" by Starmer in May, have yet to be signed off by the US despite a January deadline.
3 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Duke of Marlborough charged with non-fatal strangulation
The Duke of Marlborough, formerly known as Jamie Blandford, has been charged with nonfatal intentional strangulation.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Funding boost for England's 'left-behind' urban councils
Some of England's most deprived councils will receive a funding boost under a new three-year local government funding deal that prioritises urban areas with high social needs at the expense of affluent places in the leafy southeast.
2 min |
December 18, 2025
The Guardian
Rabbi remembered as a 'force' who died 'doing what he loved best'
Rabbi Eli Schlanger has been remembered as “much more than a rabbi” to his congregation in one of the first funerals held for a victim of the Bondi terror attack.
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