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Brigitte Bardot was the sultry film siren who helped ignite a sexual revolution, a woman whose cultural significance extended beyond her acting career.

The Bayeux Tapestry will be insured for around £800m when it comes to the UK next year.

From the election of a new pope to a singer blasting off into space and a president giving a huge body of water a new name, 2025 has been a year of breaking news and bizarre headlines.

Idris Elba, ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, as well as England's victorious women's football and rugby teams, are among 1,157 people recognised in the New Year Honours list.

A mother and two children have died after a Boxing Day fire in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Yvette Cooper has ordered an urgent Foreign Office review of "serious information failures" in the case of a freed British-Egyptian activist.