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Many Britons have gone above and beyond to help others during the pandemic.

The company has bought BP’s global Aromatics and Acetyls business arms.

Forces had to break up New Year parties across England as revellers ignored warnings about breaching Tier 4 regulations.

Adrian Boyle, vice president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said people were ‘tired, frustrated and fed-up’.

Overnight temperatures dropped to minus 7.3C (18.9F) in Wiltshire, and frost and ice are expected to last into next week, the Met Office said.

Police found 80 people at the event in rural Lancashire.

Boris Johnson said the ’47-year experiment’ of European Union membership has given way to a new global perspective.

Officers in North Lincolnshire posted a video on social media of a colleague sliding down the icy A18 Mortal Ash Hill near Scunthorpe.

Irish Ferries’ ship Ulysses docked in Dublin Port while the Irish Ferries’ ship Isle of Inishmore docked in Rosslare.

The First Minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended on Thursday night.

Instalment number 19,343 airs on BBC Radio 4 on New Year’s Day.

The Prime Minister may have secured a trade deal with the EU in the midst of a pandemic, but this year won’t be an easy ride.

The nation’s papers strike a largely upbeat tone as a new year and new era dawn for post-Brexit Britain.

The UK’s chief medical officers said “decisive action” was needed to give more people an initial vaccination.

The capital greeted the new year with a fireworks display on the Thames.

Britain is free to pursue independent trade policies for the first time in more than four decades.

Thermometers could drop as low as minus 4C (24.8F) in southern England in the early hours.

Driver Slavi Ivanov Shumeykov smiled and waved as his HGV was processed by officials late on New Year’s Eve.

The communications regulator has updated its code.

Big Ben chimed as the UK left the EU single market and customs union at 11pm.