The Guardian - January 01, 2025

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January 01, 2025

Russia ends gas supply to Europe via Ukraine

Europe was to receive the last Russian gas sent via Ukraine's pipelines in the early hours of the new year as the continent braced for a plunge in temperatures that could hasten the drain on gas reserves.

2 mins

Surge in private dentist charges prices patients out of treatment

Private dentists are cashing in on the scarcity of NHS treatment by hiking their charges for fillings, checkups and extractions to \"\"eye-watering\"\" levels, research has found.

4 mins

Lack of NHS care and rising cost of private treatment leaves system suffering serious decay

The inability of millions of patients to access an NHS dentist is one of the longest-running injustices in the history of the health service.

2 mins

Rebel, rocker, phenomenal DJ... Tributes paid after Johnnie Walker dies aged 79

The veteran BBC DJ Johnnie Walker has died at the age of 79, it was announced yesterday.

3 mins

Great Guinness heist: thieves steal truck carrying 35,000 pints

In the days leading up to Christmas, stout lovers were left reeling from a nationwide shortage of Guinness so severe that some pubs were forced to ration pints of the \"black stuff\".

1 min

Energy bills rise for 9m homes amid snow, wind and rain alerts

Nine million homes will face higher energy bills from today as Britain braces for freezing temperatures and snow warnings for the new year period.

2 mins

High winds and heavy rain cancel new year festivities

High winds and heavy rain battering the UK have caused travel problems and the cancellation of a swath of new year events including firework displays, charity swims, and a bathtub race that takes place in Europe's largest natural harbour.

2 mins

Smartwatches could help smokers kick the habit, say researchers

Smartwatches could be used to help people to quit smoking, a study has suggested.

1 min

MPs call for Post Office to be stopped from running Horizon compensation schemes

The Post Office needs to be removed from running redress schemes for victims of the Horizon scandal to prevent justice from being further delayed, a parliamentary committee has said.

1 min

Conservation efforts starting to pay off for migrating turtle doves

There are signs of hope for the turtle dove, one of the most endangered birds that has been plummeting towards extinction in Britain.

2 mins

Special forces troops face prosecution over alleged war crimes

Nine special forces troops are facing prosecution over alleged war crimes committed in Syria, the government has revealed, with another member of the armed forces under investigation over their actions in Afghanistan.

1 min

Jolie and Pitt finally reach divorce settlement after eight-year legal wrangle

It was a great Hollywood love story, and a very 21st-century one at that: two of the most famous actors in the world star together in a movie, and go on to have a large brood of children, a magazine tie-in wedding and one of the defining celebrity portmanteau brands of the age: Brangelina.

3 mins

Boy, 7, completes goal of visiting every city in England by train

An achievement for a lot of seven-year-olds in 2024 might have been riding a bike without stabilisers, but for one boy it was visiting every city in England by train.

2 mins

'I was going crazy' People sent 250 miles to fend for themselves

For much of the 20th century, the streets of Horden housed a thriving community of mining families who took pride in their small but well-kept homes.

5 mins

Councils pay millions to firms moving homeless families out of big cities

Councils in England are paying millions to relocation companies to move homeless families out of cities and the south-east in a practice that has been called a \"national scandal\".

4 mins

Manchester attack survivor calls for legal protection from conspiracists

A survivor of the Manchester Arena attack is calling for greater legal protections from conspiracy theorists after a YouTuber with millions of viewers secretly filmed his family to try to prove they were \"crisis actors\".

2 mins

Kate Beckinsale says she has been 'assaulted' and 'felt up' on film sets

Kate Beckinsale, the British star of films such as Love & Friendship, Canary Black and the Underworld series, has posted a video on social media in response to Blake Lively's legal battle with Justin Baldoni, the director of It Ends with Us.

2 mins

Israeli Players Free To Compete In Indoor Bowls Championship After Ban U-Turn

Israeli players will now be free to compete at next month's World Indoor Bowls Championships in Norfolk after tournament organisers last night revoked a ban.

2 mins

Rise in nutrition-related hospital admissions is troubling, GPs say

The number of people admitted to hospital in England because of a lack of iron and vitamins is soaring, according to analysis of NHS figures.

2 mins

Burglar who took £10m of jewellery from mansion broke in via bathroom window

The burglar who stole £10m-worth of jewellery in one of Britain's biggest ever heists broke into a London mansion through a bathroom window and escaped with his haul in a rucksack on his back.

2 mins

The next Notre Dame inferno': fears as parliament restoration is delayed

Parliament could become the next \"Notre Dame inferno\", a former Commons leader has warned, as it was confirmed new plans for the multibillion restoration would not be published until the end of next year.

3 mins

Keir Starmer PM promises 2025 will be 'a year of rebuilding'

Keir Starmer has promised to rebuild Britain as Labour did after the second world war as he enters a pivotal year for his premiership.

2 mins

You've nothing to lose' Labour's 'bonus MPs' from non-target seats put local agendas first

Neil Duncan-Jordan's new parliamentary office is at the top of a steep staircase in a maze of corridors just behind the speaker's house, with a sweeping view of the Thames.

4 mins

Man on the run over IPP sentence recall issues plea to justice secretary

A Bolton man who is on the run after being recalled to prison indefinitely has made a direct plea to the justice secretary to intervene in his case.

2 mins

Teenage girls in Britain outdrink boys by widest margin in Europe, study suggests

Teenage girls are outdrinking their male peers in the UK at a greater rate than any other European country, according to research.

2 mins

Photographer of Hebden Bridge gets the spotlight

She was a working-class woman who took amazing photographs for 70 years, yet she is little known precisely because, some would argue, she was a working-class woman.

1 min

African-Caribbean families not given sickle cell results for 12 years due to error

An NHS error led to hundreds of families with African-Caribbean heritage being unaware of whether their babies carried certain genetic blood disorders.

2 mins

Icelandic sheepdog is finally recognised as pedigree breed

A dog breed that was namechecked in one of William Shakespeare's plays and is believed to be more than 1,000 years old is to be finally recognised by the Kennel Club as a pedigree.

1 min

Water rates suggested as key to Lough Neagh algae crisis

The introduction of water rates in Northern Ireland could be the key to addressing crumbling waste water infrastructure and the impact on waterways, it has been suggested.

1 min

Hospital porter's sacking for not wearing a mask ruled as lawful

A hospital porter of 20 years who was sacked after refusing to wear a face mask during the Covid pandemic because it made him anxious has lost his claim for unfair dismissal and discrimination.

1 min

Sticking to their tongue Welsh group finds language no barrier to European success

The idea of releasing a 23-track double album of pop and rock songs written entirely in Cymraeg - the Welsh language - might be daunting for some artists. But not Adwaith, a post-punk group from Carmarthenshire.

2 mins

Working from home may harm women's careers, says bank boss

Working from home could harm women's careers because they are less likely to come into the office than their male colleagues, the boss of Britain's biggest building society has warned.

1 min

Not a 'white space' The black female hikers challenging rural stereotypes

The black female hikers challenging rural stereotypes

3 mins

Single bus fare cap increases by 50% to £3 today in much of England

Millions of bus passengers in England have been hit by an increase in single fares from £2 to £3.

1 min

'I could work every day' Life of a pet detective helping bereft owners amid increase in thefts

Life of a pet detective helping bereft owners amid increase in thefts

4 mins

Starmer Faces Early Test of Climate Leadership With Big Decisions on Carbon Budget

Keir Starmer will face a key test of his claims to leadership on the climate early next year, when the UK's statutory advisers issue their latest advice on future cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.

5 mins

Medical System in Gaza on Brink of Total Collapse, Says UN Rights Office

Israel's pattern of sustained attacks on Gaza's hospitals and medical workers has brought the strip's healthcare system to the brink of \"total collapse\", according to a report by the UN human rights office.

2 mins

Crash investigators focus on Muan airport runway barrier

Investigators turn to black boxes for vital clues

4 mins

Expert reaction Concern focuses on concrete wall beyond end of runway

Aviation experts have raised safety questions over the placement of large concrete barriers at the end of runways after a plane crashed into one in South Korea on Sunday.

2 mins

Former US president to be honoured with state funeral and national day of mourning

Jimmy Carter, the former US president who died aged 100 on Sunday, will be honoured with a state funeral before being laid to rest in his home town of Plains, Georgia, next to his wife, Rosalynn.

2 mins

He Left So Much Town Celebrates Its Most Famous – Yet Down-to-Earth – Son

The signs, made by hand or machine, less than a metre square or the size of a truck, were everywhere in this small town on Monday: \"Thank you, Jimmy Carter\", \"Home of Jimmy Carter\" and, left over from October: \"Happy 100th birthday.\"

3 mins

Former environment chief warns the EU against backsliding on climate crisis

A former EU environment commissioner has warned against backsliding on the protection of nature and the battle against the climate crisis after the bloc decided to delay its landmark deforestation law.

2 mins

Kickstarting celebrations: kung fu nuns reopen their monastery

About a dozen nuns performed hand chops and high kicks, some of them wielding swords, as they showed off their martial art skills to hundreds of cheering wellwishers at the reopening of their nunnery in Nepal.

1 min

Pianist calls on world to cut ties with Venezuela's youth orchestra over election 'theft'

The Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero has called on concert halls and music promoters to cut ties with her country's world-renowned youth orchestra as a result of Nicolás Maduro's alleged theft of this year's presidential election.

1 min

Seeds of hope Kharkiv residents work to restore war-ravaged forest

Yuriy Bengus surveyed a scene of destruction. The Zhuravli forest, on the northern edge of Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv, was a blackened mess.

4 mins

Motion is just time unfolding' Strava artist whose running routes became a hit online

Paused on a busy Toronto street, eyes glued to a map on his phone, Duncan McCabe could easily be mistaken for a lost tourist. Within moments, however, he's on the move. \"I think, at this point, we're along the belly of the whale,\" he says. \"The fin is coming up soon.\"

2 mins

Dublin's dry pub toasts first year - but now sells booze

Doing Glastonbury sober is a challenge most music festival fans would decline.

2 mins

Dutch apprehensive as archive opens to reveal Nazi collaboration

For 80 years, details of their ancestors' collaboration with the Nazis have been buried in rows of filing cabinets in The Hague. But thousands of Dutch families now face having their relatives' history laid bare when an archive opens on 425,000 people accused of siding with the occupier during the second world war.

2 mins

Xi seeks to allay fears for Chinese economy

China's economy is on course to expand by 5% in 2025, according to its president, Xi Jinping, meeting official growth targets and rebutting concerns that Donald Trump's incoming US administration will harm Beijing's prospects in the new year.

1 min

FTSE records 5.7% annual gain as aviation stocks fly

Britain's blue-chip stock index has recorded its strongest annual gain since 2021, after lagging behind Wall Street over the past year.

2 mins

Estate agents expect buyer's market but warn of stamp duty change

Experts predict a buyer's market for house hunters this year, giving them greater negotiating power as the mood of the housing market shifts to \"cautious optimism\".

1 min

Preying on investors How MicroStrategy's pandemic-era bitcoin bet went stratospheric

In the summer of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic upended economies around the world, an obscure US software firm decided to diversify.

3 mins

Energy caps to stamp duty rises Key dates for your personal finances

Key dates for your personal finances

3 mins

If I were in Andy Farrell's shoes ... Time to pick a Lions squad and XV to take on the Wallabies this summer

The Lions are stronger in certain areas than others and much hinges, in every sense, on Ireland's front row.

4 mins

Cooler Kyrgios falls short on return in face of barrage from fiery Frenchman

As Nick Kyrgios returned to the singles court for just the second time in more than two years, he found himself digesting a dose of his own bitter medicine.

3 mins

Cummins the conductor in Boxing Day Test for the ages

Life rarely meets expectation. At around this time each year, those realisations come knocking with increasing frequency.

3 mins

A tale of two Tuchels: which will England get?

England's new head coach, whose 18-month contract begins today, is a tactical guru but there is an icy side to him

5 mins

Contract sagas of Salah, Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold act as a sideshow Slot does not deserve

Arne Slot dealt with the latest round of questions concerning Liverpool contract extensions, or lack of them, in his usual relaxed, affable manner at West Ham on Sunday.

3 mins

Rooney leaves rock-bottom Plymouth after seven months

Wayne Rooney's time at Plymouth has come to an end after only seven months, with the Championship club announcing they have \"mutually agreed to part ways with immediate effect\", with the former Manchester United and England forward.

1 min

Year to Forget: How United's 2024 Unravelled by the Month

May's FA Cup triumph did not save Erik ten Hag and by the end of December, as John Brewin writes, his successor was talking about relegation

8 mins

Trossard on a quest to show Arteta he can fill Saka's boots

The Arsenal forward has been called 'a bit of a moaner' by his manager but he has a vital role to play this season

3 mins

Madrid make first move Liverpool reject bid to lure Alexander-Arnold in January

Liverpool have rejected Real Madrid's attempt to sign Trent Alexander-Arnold in the January window.

1 min

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