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Good afternoon and welcome to a special edition of Front Page. Before the year draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of the most read stories of the year in the Front Page newsletter.     A royal road to recovery A difficult year for the Royal family saw both the King and the Princess of Wales diagnosed with cancer in February and March. In early September, the Princess announced that her chemotherapy was over and she was cancer-free, in news that quickly became one of our most read stories of the year. This video of the Wales’s spending time outdoors with their children by the Norfolk coast marked the end of the Princess’s “complex, scary and unpredictable” cancer journey. Thankfully, the year ended on a positive note, with both the King and the Princess resuming public engagements.     The war in Ukraine In world news, another article that was popular with Front Page readers showed a US-supplied Bradley infantry fighting vehicle disabling one of Russia’s most advanced tanks on the battlefield in Ukraine. A Russian T-90M comes under intense fire from a Ukrainian operated M2A2 Bradley CREDIT: OSINTtechnical via X While developments in the Middle East captured media attention for large parts of the year, news from the war in Ukraine returned to the headlines as a major subject during our coverage of the US election, with Donald Trump promising to end the war in “one day”.    and   Labour’s landslide victory In the UK, the big political event of the year was undoubtedly the general election. Sir Keir Starmer led the Labour Party to a landslide victory as the Conservatives sank to just 121 MPs haemorrhaging votes to Reform. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most read article from the election was our piece detailing the full results in each constituency. Another popular UK politics-related story came later in the year, when Laura Kuenssberg was forced to cancel her interview with Boris Johnson after she sent him her briefing notes “by mistake”.     Violence in Southport Shortly after Labour’s election victory, violent protests broke out in Southport following the killing of three children at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club. One of our most read pieces came from the day after the attack, when Sir Keir Starmer was heckled on a visit to the town with a member of the public asking “how many more children” will die. Nigel Farage later revealed that Reform was banned from discussing the Southport suspect in Parliament.     Paris Olympics gender row In sport, the gender row surrounding Imane Khelif overshadowed a large portion of this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris. One of our most read articles of the year covered the Algerian fighter’s bout with Italy’s Angela Carini when Khelif, who failed two sex tests, felled Carini with one punch. Imane Khelif (red) won after her opponent Angela Carini (blue) abandoned the fight CREDIT: Getty Images/Richard Pelham The Telegraph reported that TV viewers were kept in the dark about the row when the commentary team failed to mention the furore. Oliver Brown, our chief sports writer, described the fight as “one of the most shaming episodes in Olympic history”.     Nightmare on Downing Street At the end of October, Rachel Reeves delivered Labour’s first Budget in 14 years. Speculation grew over the Chancellor’s speech when, under the shade of green foliage in the Downing Street rose garden, Sir Keir Starmer warned of a “painful” Halloween Budget. Our third most popular piece of the year, published days before Ms Reeves unveiled £40 billion of tax rises, informed readers of the three panic moves households were making.     Trump’s comeback In November, Donald Trump made a remarkable comeback, winning the 2024 US presidential election. One of the most significant moments in the campaign was the attempt on the president-elect’s life in July at a rally in Pennsylvania. At the time, Tony Diver, The Telegraph’s US editor, suggested that the shooting could hand Mr Trump the election in what was the most read story of the year in Front Page. Trump pumped a fist in the air after the attack Closely following in second place was a visual piece, which synchronised videos filmed by members of the public with the “official” broadcast footage of the rally to show readers what was going on behind the scenes.     Matt Cartoon of the year Sign up for our special edition of the Matt newsletter tomorrow for a round up of his most-loved cartoons of the year. Thanks for reading this special edition of Front Page. We’re looking forward to sharing another year of news with you in 2025.     Other newsletters you may like... Money The week’s most important tax, property, investing and pensions news. Sign up Breaking News Be informed - via email - about latest news as it breaks. Sign up Matt An inside look at what inspires his weekly cartoons. Sign up     Get in touch Did you find this edition of Front Page useful? Please email us your thoughts and feedback at frontpagenl@telegraph.co.uk. 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