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The Campaign for Better Transport said a fairer model is ‘long overdue’.

Queues formed outside stores on Oxford Street in London in the early hours of Tuesday.

The collision between a black Mercedes and a grey BMW happened in Poole on Boxing Day morning.

An AI-powered robot called Ai-Da will help to deliver the Royal Institution’s annual Christmas lectures on Boxing Day.

Despite the encounter being painted as a positive for Sinn Fein at the time, a disagreement ensued about disabling arsenal in Northern Ireland.

A briefing note from the Irish ambassador stated that the late princess had referred to Northern Ireland as part of Ireland.

The meeting was set up after a pledge from taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

It was noted that ‘the unionists did not want their faces rubbed’ in the fact that there would not be a dual name for the police force.

It was noted that the ‘appropriate diplomatic excuse’ would need to be given by Patrick Hillery.

An Irish diplomat said then-prime minister and Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II could face ’embarrassment’ by not attending the memorial.

All paramilitary groups were to decommission by May 2000 under the Good Friday Agreement.

The UUP delegation raised concerns about the phrasing of the timing of decommissioning in the summer of 1999.

Poundland has opened 64 shops under its branding since agreeing a deal to buy up to 71 former Wilko shops from administrators.

Kureishi is reportedly still unable to use his arms or legs and has spent the last year in five different hospitals.

Temperatures soared and dipped during 2023 as the weather created some extreme conditions.

HS2 Ltd executive chair Sir Jon Thompson said the transition towards installing railway systems will ‘edge us ever closer’ to completion.

Here is a look at some of the most bizarre Guinness World Records of the year.

After starting a global trend, Bahsoon told the PA news agency: ‘Now I see the tube girls of Warsaw, of Paris, and it’s just insane.’

Simon King was trapped in his safe room for 36 hours with his family members while Hamas militants stormed his village.

A new wave of generative AI, Apple’s augmented reality move and misinformation around elections will be major talking points of the next 12 months.