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Two guilty over Bath tipper truck crash

Two men are found guilty after a tipper truck crashed in Bath killing four people, including a 4-year-old girl.

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Berlin market reopens after attack

Concrete barriers are installed as the Berlin market where a lorry attacker killed 12 reopens.

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Prince warns against religious persecution

Prince Charles says the threat to minority faiths has "disturbing echoes of the dark days" of the 1930s.

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Mother and daughter die in house fire

A Polish mother and daughter killed in a fire at their home in Braintree in Essex.

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Christmas getaway hampered by fog

Fog delays flights at London airports amid warnings of further travel disruption from Storm Barbara.

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Multiple sclerosis drug 'a landmark'

A drug that alters the immune system is described as a "landmark" in treating multiple sclerosis.

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Facebook lurking 'makes you miserable'

Spending too long on social media is likely to cause envy and dissatisfaction, suggests a study.

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Broadband boost for remotest parts of UK

The government plans to use £440m to connect about 600,000 more premises to superfast broadband.

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Call to halve prisoner numbers to 45,000

The prison population of England and Wales should be cut to 45,000, three ex-cabinet ministers urge.

Jacqui Hames

TV presenter in hacking legal challenge

An ex-Crimewatch presenter launches a legal challenge to test the government's commitment to press regulation.

An advertisement for a magazine featuring US President-elect Donald Trump on the cover at a news stand in Shanghai, December 2016.

China critic to head US trade body

Donald Trump appoints one of his advisers, a strong critic of China, to a top US trade post.

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Bionic eyes bring light to blind

NHS England is rolling out bionic implants to 10 blind people, and one man says it changed his life.

Man handing house keys to woman

Home ownership among 25-year-olds slumps

Home ownership among 25-year-olds falls by more than half in 20 years, according to council leaders.

People in the barber shop

2016 viewed from the barber's chair

From the vote for Brexit, to the death of Prince and the rise of Donald Trump, 2016 has been quite the year for news. We settle down into the barber's chair to discuss what happened.

The Papers

Europe's most-wanted man 'slipped off radar'

The search for the Tunisian man suspected of carrying out the Berlin lorry attack dominates the front pages, which also have news of the Queen's delayed Sandringham trip.

  • 22 December 2016

The Reporters

Martin Bashir: One woman's Christmas in a cell

  • 22 December 2016
  • From the section Asia

Yuval Noah Harari: This year in history

  • 22 December 2016
  • From the section World

Gordon Corera: Can US election hack be traced to Russia?

Features

52 weeks quiz part one

Do you remember the stories behind 2016's pictures?

  • 22 December 2016
  • From the section Magazine

Best albums

The top 10 albums of 2016, from Bowie to Beyonce

Wonder child

How I survived cancer and gave birth at the same time

  • 22 December 2016
  • From the section Magazine

Breakaway mum

The mother who moved 100 miles to escape her son's addiction

  • 22 December 2016

No laughing matter

Mixed fortunes in the world of clowning

  • 22 December 2016
  • From the section Business

Reaching zero

The city that wants to eliminate suicide

  • 21 December 2016
  • From the section UK

Explainers

Do England and Wales lock up more people?

Do men earn less for part-time work?

How many minimally conscious patients are there?

  • 21 December 2016
  • From the section Health

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