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NHS waiting times are reaching record highs as hospitals are overwhelmed with patients amid a severe flu outbreak and rising Covid cases.

Kiran Pun, from Amesbury, Wiltshire, was last seen at 7.30pm on December 1 getting off the number 1 bus at Aldershot railway station in Hampshire.

Stewart Hood has transformed the plot near Antrim town.

Margaret Gibney was a Belfast schoolgirl when she asked the then-prime minister to bring an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

A poll commissioned by the Lib Dems found one in four adults had tried and failed to get a face-to-face consultation with a doctor in the last year.

A catwalk show with items from Oxfam will feature at London Fashion Week in February.

Maria Chenoweth said charity shops are still full of gems from up to 70 years ago, including designer treasures.

A look at the best photos of 2022.

Experts said the future energy grid would be heavily dependent on managing when, rather than how much electricity people used.

The mastheads begin the year with stories on the NHS, the coronation and ‘Wet January’.

Church leaders have urged worshippers to keep the former pope in their prayers when they attend church services on Sunday.

House sales are expected to be lower this year than in 2022 and some sellers may need to readjust their price and selling time expectations.

Some 17,145 shops on high streets and other locations across the country closed in 2022, according to new analysis.

Experts are already concerned that all the same challenged could be repeated next winter, and perhaps get worse.

Bristol topped the list as the most generous area, followed by Bedford, Luton, North Somerset and London.

Dai Jones, 40, from Port Talbot, underwent life-saving emergency surgery at Morriston Hospital’s cardiac centre in 2020

People are being forced to take increasingly desperate measures to get by during the cost-of-living crisis, Citizens Advice said.

Financial challenges are facing a broader section of students than previously seen, the Universities UK chief executive said.

A vandal also scratched the name ‘Dave’ into the stonework of a corridor in the House of Lords in 2022.

Partygoers welcomed in 2023 with a series of events across the UK despite the wet weather.