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Wednesday briefing: What’s at stake for the BBC as it faces further funding questions

In today’s newsletter: The BBC is bracing for a high-stakes legal fight after the US president sues over an edited Panorama clip, and questions mount about the broadcaster’s future funding and political vulnerability

The Guardian - UK

2025 is UK’s sunniest year on record, boosting solar power

Britain has had more than 1,600 recorded hours of sunshine this year after record-breaking spring

The Guardian - UK

‘Lonely, terrifying and scary’: 70% of students in UK university halls feel isolated, poll shows

Students blame reliance on phones plus pressure of accommodation costs for lack of social life

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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky urges European leaders to show united front against Putin at Brussels summit

Ukrainian president’s call comes after Putin launched bizarre rant against West amid ongoing US-brokered peace talks

The Independent UK

Government grants £120m of funding to save UK’s last ethylene plant

Cash injection for billionaire Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos site in central belt of Scotland will help safeguard 500 jobs

The Guardian - UK

Grangemouth chemicals plant to stay open after Government provides £120m funding

The Government is to support chemicals giant Ineos with funding to help secure jobs at the site.

The Independent UK

2025 is UK’s sunniest year on record

The country had clocked up an average of 1,622 hours of sunshine by December 15.

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2025 was the UK’s sunniest year on record

The previous record has been smashed with two weeks still to go

The Independent UK

New study reveals value of ‘bank of mum and dad’ for home buyers

Young homebuyers are finding it increasingly more difficult to get onto housing ladder

The Independent UK

UK insists US tech deal not dead as Trump threatens penalties against European firms

Keir Starmer’s office claims UK still in ‘active conversations’ about deal for tech industries in both countries to cooperate

The Guardian - US

British paratrooper killed in Ukraine to be brought back to UK

The repatriation of Lance Corporal George Hooley, 28, will take place at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Wednesday afternoon.

Evening Standard

“My Face Is Changing Every Day!”: Woman’s $4k ‘Turkey Teeth’ Procedure Goes Horribly Wrong

"I wouldn't be on TikTok. I'd be at the ER."

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UK to rejoin EU student exchange scheme in 2027 as part of Starmer’s Brexit reset

EU relations minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said it was a ‘huge win for our young people’

The Independent UK

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme

Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

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UK to hold inquiry into foreign financial interference in domestic politics

Review, which will focus on effectiveness of political finance laws, follows conviction of former Reform politician for accepting bribes

The Independent UK

Judge throws out ‘hopeless’ legal claim over Reform treasurer’s penthouse

Michael Brown appeared to be seeking £659 million over an alleged fraudulent valuation of the penthouse

The Independent UK

Nissan puts spark into an electric future for cars

CAR REVIEW: Electric cars will be coming to Nissan’s large Sunderland-based plant, as the third-generation Nissan Leaf will be built in significant numbers for the European market

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Deals put UK-US trade relationship in the spotlight

Letters: Richard Torbett and Nick Dearden respond to an article by Aditya Chakrabortty on Keir Starmer’s medicines agreement with Donald Trump

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The Guardian - UK

Donald Trump v the BBC: key points of the president’s claim

We examine some of the allegations against the UK broadcaster in the $10bn lawsuit

The Independent UK

Why Donald Trump’s $10bn lawsuit against the BBC is doomed to fail

The BBC is accused of misleading viewers by editing a speech Donald Trump delivered on 6 January 2021

Evening Standard

FTSE 100 dips as BP and Shell fall amid oil slide

Figures from the ONS showed the unemployment rate rose to 5.1% in the three months to October, up from 5% in the three months to September.

The Guardian - UK

Universal Studios UK theme park given planning permission in Bedfordshire

Attraction part-funded with £500m of public investment will be constructed on site of a former brickworks

The Guardian - UK

How far must UK go to fend off threat of foreign interference in its elections?

Closing funding loopholes and re-empowering the watchdog would go some way to tackling an urgent issue

TechRadar

UK MPs target VPNs in latest Online Safety Act debate

The debate around age verification and VPNs heats up as MPs confirm their commitment to review the role these providers should have in preventing their service from being misused to evade the law.

The Independent UK

Rise in foreign criminals removed from UK in push to free up prison space

Numbers leaving the UK is up 12 per cent year-on-year

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