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The Guardian
Victims' champion says long waits for justice are shameful
The victims of disasters such as Hillsborough and Grenfell having to wait years for justice is a \"stain on our society\", the new independent public advocate (IPA) has said in her first interview in the role.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Bandit Santas steal a sleigh full of food saying it will go to needy
Dressed in red suits and backed by masked elves, a group of Santas marched into a Montreal supermarket, loaded their bags with thousands of dollars worth of groceries and disappeared into the night.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Rain washes away hopes of a white Christmas
Hopes for a white Christmas are fading after forecasters predicted brighter conditions ahead of 25 December.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Brown murders: investigation focuses on motive after suspect found dead
Investigators have turned to the search for a motive in the murders of two Brown University students and a physics professor in Massachusetts in separate but linked attacks, after the prime suspect was found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Trade minister: 'not clear' if China was behind cyber-attack on Foreign Office
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office was hacked in October, a minister has said.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
'It takes months to recover' Firms reel from Monmouth's devastating floods
“It was heart-wrenching,” says Andrea Sholl, recalling the Friday night last month when flood waters started rising inside Bar 125, the restaurant she and her husband, Martin, own in the Welsh border town of Monmouth.
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Contactless card payment limit of £100 to be scrapped from March
The £100 limit on contactless card payments will be scrapped next year and consumers could be allowed to spend as much as they wanted without inputting their pin under changes announced by the UK financial regulator.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Australia to launch gun buyback scheme after Bondi terror shootings
Australia's federal government is to launch a gun buyback scheme in what the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said yesterday would be the biggest collection of weapons since after the Port Arthur massacre nearly three decades ago.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Reform UK Kent cover-up claim over green plans
Reform-run Kent council has been accused of trying to block scrutiny after it refused, for more than five months, to produce evidence that it had saved more than £40m by cancelling two environmental projects that did not exist yet.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Government borrowed more than expected as pre-budget jitters hit
The UK government borrowed more than expected in November, official figures show, amid pressure on the economy before Rachel Reeves announced her autumn budget.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
South Korean president wants social insurance to cover hair-loss treatments
The South Korean president, Lee Jae Myung, has instructed his government to consider extending public health insurance to cover hair-loss treatments, arguing that baldness had become a “matter of survival” rather than a cosmetic concern for young people.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
TikTok signs Trump-backed deal to avoid a ban in the US
TikTok has reached a deal to form a joint venture that will allow it to continue operating in the US, five years after Donald Trump threatened to ban the social media platform over privacy and national security concerns, a move that further strained relations with China.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Maga disciples Trump's envoys raising eyebrows around Europe
When your goal is to “help Europe correct its current trajectory” because it is “weak” and facing “civilisational erasure”, your choice of highly trained operatives for the mission is plainly of paramount importance.
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Woman and her lover who plotted to kill her husband receive 19-year jail terms
A woman who plotted with her secret lover to murder her husband so they could start a new life together was yesterday jailed for 19 years.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Have a low-fat Christmas: TV food ads fall in line with new junk food rules
The festive season is traditionally a time of national culinary overindulgence but eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed that this year’s crop of big-budget Christmas TV ads have been decidedly lean and sugar-free.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Remarkable fundraising will preserve a Patagonian wilderness
A wide area of Chilean Patagonia has been preserved for future generations and protected from logging, damming and unbridled development after a remarkable fundraising effort by local groups, the Guardian can reveal.
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Reform UK Candidate who told Lammy to 'go home' queried 8 MPs' loyalty to UK
A Reform UK mayoral candidate who said David Lammy should “go home to the Caribbean” has suggested that at least eight other politicians from minority ethnic backgrounds do not have a primary loyalty towards the United Kingdom.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Safety fears raised over landslide alert equipment on railway tracks
Accident investigators have issued an urgent safety warning, saying that the railway network's landslide monitoring equipment may not work when the earth moves suddenly, after discovering sensors did not transmit after a landslip derailed an intercity train.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Publisher drops Walliams after claims of inappropriate behaviour
David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher after an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards young women, The Telegraph has reported.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Rise of wind and solar energy could herald greenest Christmas ever
Great Britain’s energy system operator has predicted that Christmas Day could be the greenest ever this year.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Crops becoming more calorific but less nutritious, study finds
More carbon dioxide in the environment is making food more calorific but less nutritious - and also potentially more toxic, a study has found.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Home Alone for Christmas: TikTok drives trend of retro celebrations
Tinsel, DIY tree decorations, deep burgundy drapes - and Home Alone on VHS.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
WH Smith tries to claw back bonuses from ex-bosses as FCA investigates
WH Smith will try to take back as much as £7m in bonuses from former executives after revealing the UK's financial watchdog has launched a formal investigation into a devastating accounting error linked to its US business.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Bleak midwinter
War seeps into everyday life in Ukraine but the show must go on
6 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Will it be glitter Ball? Radio 2 presenter is a favourite to host Strictly - but who with?
After more than two decades hosting Strictly Come Dancing, Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly are approaching their last tango.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Baggy, carrot, flared or barrel
So which were the jeans of 2025?
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Furry fun: Paddington director to bring Labubus to film screens
Paul King, the director of the Paddington films and the Timothée Chalamet-led musical Wonka, is set to direct the Labubu film.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Lobby briefings Society of Editors says dropping session is 'deeply concerning'
The Society of Editors has raised concerns about Keir Starmer’s plan to reduce scrutiny of No 10 by political journalists, saying it risks weakening transparency.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Catholic church names new archbishop of Westminster
The new leader of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales has been named as Bishop Richard Moth.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Le Carré with cocktails New-era Night Manager is ‘big, glossy, sexy’
I was in a market square in the Colombian city of Cartagena when Georgi Banks-Davies wondered if she had bitten off more than she could chew.
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