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What went right in 2024: the top 25 good news stories of the year

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Machine to revive donor organs used in double-lung transplant in UK first

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Chris McCausland to deliver Channel 4’s alternative Christmas message

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UK doctors warn of risk from expanding water beads marketed as toys

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£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support

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Spiralling demand and shrinking budgets: why England’s Send system is buckling

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Paul Gordon obituary

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How far do Elon Musk and Reform UK share a political vision?

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‘A long-distance hug’: readers and gen Z on the joy – and expense – of sending Christmas cards

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UK banks’ trust account exodus cuts lifeline for disabled people, says charity

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Funding gap for women’s centres will mean more prison sentences, experts warn

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Guardian and Observer charity appeal donations pass £800,000

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UK to open its first safe drug consumption room amid soaring deaths

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‘Free and impartial’ addiction helplines paid secret commission by rehabs

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‘She should have a bit of me’: the Dutch mothers fighting for their children to carry their surname

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Ouch! Solving the riddle of pain

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Trend watch: cosy loungewear

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Scientists map use of epilepsy drug in England and Wales linked to birth defects

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‘She won’t disappear’: Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers on what she will do next

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Stand tall, hum and try a dead hang: 22 two-minute tension relievers

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AOC may have shifted to the center, but the Democrats aren’t ready for change | Arwa Mahdawi

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‘At 98, I wouldn’t be so sharp without puzzles’: do crosswords and quizzes really boost your brain power?

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Quarter of NHS England trusts raised parking fees in cost of living crisis, data shows

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Unpeeled tomatoes and barn conversions: Nicky Haslam reveals what’s ‘common’ this year

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Can I survive for 24 hours without GPS navigation?

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Sara Sharif told social worker ‘they don’t hit me’ four years before her murder

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Arno Rabinowitz obituary

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Party City shutters after nearly 40 years, firing workers without severance pay

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Martin Corrick obituary

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Cochlear implants make a useful addition to sign language | Letters

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Children’s charity rejects archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas donation

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Travellers bring legal action after Manchester police allegedly forced children on to trains

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Pop-up heart-health hubs sought for Premier League clubs in England

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European city mayors urge Ursula von der Leyen to tackle EU’s housing crisis

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Community project turns Tudor oak into a single-tree table

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Ex-pupil wins damages over face-down restraint at Oxfordshire special school

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King Charles’s cancer treatment ‘will continue into next year’

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Richard Desmond set for court clash with regulator over National Lottery bid

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What went right this week: the good news that matters

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Allow teachers to fine parents over pupils’ bad behaviour, says Tony Blair’s thinktank

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Calls for abortion law change in England after couple sentenced for buying pills

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Number of people in hospital in England with flu jumps 41% in a week

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Pelicot rape trial: verdict due for 51 men in case that has outraged France – live updates

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‘He’s one of us’: he may be ready to leave but Marcus Rashford is still loved in his home city

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One in 20 Australians are LGBTI+ with rate higher among young people

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Cancer screening take ups not back to pre-pandemic levels, charity warns

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‘Pick and mix of horror’ online pushes young people to violence, UK police chief says

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Gisèle Pelicot: verdicts expected in rape trial that shocked France

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My mother has schizophrenia and there’s a chance I could too. Am I right to want biological children?

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What are ‘Waspi women’ and why do they feel betrayed over pensions?

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‘Negative news publications should come with a health warning’

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‘Negative news publications should come with a health warning’

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Minister apologises for letters wrongly saying benefits being axed

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Delays and neglect led to death of prisoner serving IPP sentence, jury finds

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Life inside a therapeutic prison: ‘Look, we’ve done some terrible things ...’

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Rachel Reeves: improving services more important than Waspi women payout

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Cheap, smart and efficient: how giant rats are transforming the fight against TB

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Pollution exposure linked to mental health hospital admissions, says study

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Ban physician associates from seeing NHS patients one-to-one, says RCP

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Judge in Sara Sharif case warns of ‘dangers’ of automatic right to home school children

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DRC health ministry says mystery disease is ‘severe’ form of malaria

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Anger greets UK government decision not to compensate ‘Waspi women’

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10 empowering ways to manage your media diet this Christmas

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The ‘quad-demic’ is here – and with it I have become a disease detective | Zoe Williams

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If you’ve got children, you need to watch Swiped – and see how sick their phones are making them | Simon Jenkins

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Martha’s rule having ‘transformative effect’, NHS England data shows

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Margaret Hodge to lead review of regional inequality in the arts

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Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds

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Tories cry foul as overhaul of English councils may delay local elections

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Social media platforms have work to do to comply with Online Safety Act, says Ofcom

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Seeing the funny side: 10 striking portraits of nature’s comedians

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Bird flu is a real pandemic threat. Are we prepared for the worst? | Devi Sridhar

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More than a million vapes a day in UK thrown away, says research

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One in four babies in England delivered by caesarean section, NHS data shows

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Sara Sharif’s grandfather vows to keep her siblings in Pakistan as vigil is held

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Guardian and Observer charity telethon drives donations beyond £500,000

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Top English academy trust faces safeguarding review over ‘emotional abuse’ of pupils

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Two more cases of bird flu in humans reported in California

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Inexperienced social worker did not identify Sara Sharif’s father as posing any risk

Dec 14

Victims of ‘kids-for-cash’ judge outraged by Biden pardon: ‘What about all of us?’

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Liverpool FC staff party at cathedral stopped after ‘drugs paraphernalia’ found

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Labour condemned for allowing ‘new generation of slum homes’ in England

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Republicans take aim at subsidies that help tens of millions of women

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Steven Bartlett accused of amplifying dangerous health claims on his podcast

Dec 13

What went right this week: the good news that matters

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New tongue-stimulating implant offers hope to millions with sleep apnoea in UK first

Dec 13

Guardian and Observer charity appeal raises more than £250,000

Dec 13

‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research

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Identifying Political Bias in AI

Communications of the ACM

Dec 12

From red meat to alcohol: the factors that affect bowel cancer risk

Dec 12

‘I was made to think the pain was all in my head’: gynaecological ordeals shared

Dec 12

NHS spends £14.7bn a year treating patients in England hurt by care mistakes, says report

Dec 12

Housebuilders supply only half of promised nature-friendly features, survey finds

Dec 12

Councils will be forced to build homes to fix England’s housing crisis, says Starmer

Dec 12

Bowel cancer rising among under-50s worldwide, research finds

Dec 11

Ministers planning to cut more than 10,000 civil service jobs

Dec 11

‘Just do something you enjoy!’ Have official targets made exercise a chore – and happiness more elusive?

Dec 11

Hand-selected seeds are set to bring riot of colour and life to new road in Cornwall

Dec 11

Being overweight now top risk to Australians’ health as smoking rates decline, data shows

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Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK

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