The A-Z of 2017. A,B,C
25 December 2017, 21:20 | Updated: 30 December 2017, 20:37
A,B,C
A-Z 2017
He dominated the news so much, I thought I would highlight that: (T) means those things that concern Trump
A
Died
Gregg Allman, rocker, Allman Brothers Band
Aadvark from Regent's Park Zoo
Adam West, actor, Batman
Alessandro Alessandroni, spaghetti western musician
Roger Ailes, Fox News head (T)
Brian Aldiss, author
ABC – last cinema closed
American divorcee to marry British royalty
Austerity (again)
A&E waiting times
Alternative facts (T)
Australia approves same-sex marriage
Jane Austin £10 note
Artificial Intelligence
“Ancient Orange” my name for (T)
Aircraft carrier leaks
Dianne Abbott's arithmetic
Acid attacks
Austria gets a far-right president
Astronomers find half of missing matter in universe
Apple's £1000 phone
Apple’s new spaceship campus
Julian Assange
Abortion Act 50th anniversary
Antifa (T)
Alexa
Airlander 10, airship that looks like a giant bottom crashes
Alternative for Germany wins 13% of election vote
Alt-right (T)
Atlas, back flipping robot
Airbags on lampposts, Salzburg smartphone zombies protected
Adele confirms marriage
Affordable housing
America First (T)
Alabama Senate race (T)
Aragog, lookalike spider named after Harry Potter monster
Asthma medication and British cycling
Aung San Suu Kyi, loses shine
Jacinda Ardern wins New Zealand election
Article 50
Aleppo, fall of
Alaska, oil drilling allowed in wildlife refuge (T)
B
Died
Walter Becker, rocker, Steely Dan
Brucie – Bruce Forsyth, entertainer
Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roller
Rodney Bewes, Likely Lad
Keith Barron, actor
Michael Bond, Paddington Bear author
Ian Brady, Moors murderer
Chuck Barris, Gong Show TV host, CIA assassin (?)
Leon Bernicoff, Goggleboxer
Hywell Bennett, actor
Chester Bennington, rocker, Linkin Park
Roy Barraclough, Coronation Street
Geoffrey Bayldon, Catweazle
Leo Baxendale, cartoonist Bash St Kids
William Peter Blatty, author, Exorcist
Gilbert Baker, artist, rainbow flag
Dee Boyle, rocker, Longpigs
Anthony Booth, actor, Till Death Us Do Part
Brexit
Blackamoor brooch worn by Princess Michael
Brown cows – 10% of Americans think that's where chocolate milk comes from
Boris Becker bankrupt
Breitbart (T)
Steve Bannon (T)
Burnley FC smallest team in Premiership, seventh at Christmas
Big Ben stops chiming
Borough Market terrorist attack
Boeing v Bombardier
Michel Barnier
Britain First
Bitcoin
Balfour Declaration 100th anniversary
Badger cull
Scott Baldwin pets a lion
Bubonic plague in Madagascar
Bank Levy cut
British Airways' computer meltdown
Brenda from Bristol reacts to snap election
Bumpstock for rifles
Richard Branson caught in hurricane
Richard Branson’s Virgin Care sues NHS
Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel + identity discovered?
Bathmophobia – Trump afraid of stairs (T)
“Boris bus” scrapped
Bee colony collapse disorder
Blade Runner sequel
Blue passport
Blue Planet II
British Airways IT failure
Beyonce has twins
Brazil nut shortage
Kevin de Bruyne, best midfielder in the world?
Brakeless bike crashes
Alec Baldwin spoofs Trump on SNL (T)
Bowling Green massacre, fiction told by Kellyanne Conway defending Muslim travel ban (T)
Berlin NYE “safe zone” for women
C
Died
David Cassidy, singer
Keith Chegwin (Cheggers goes pop)
Glen Cambell, singer
Max Clifford, PR
Holger Czukay, rocker, Can
Chris Cornell, rocker, Soundgarden
Larry Coryell, jazzer
Antonio Carluccio, chef
Coughing – Theresa May's Conference fiasco
Catalonia independence referendum
Jeremy Corbyn goes to Glastonbury
Cladding on tower blocks
California fires
“Covfefe” (T)
Charlottesville far right rally (T)
Cassini spacecraft crashed into Saturn
Crimewatch axed
Crimes that no longer warrant police response
Peter Capaldi exits Dr Who
Cashless society
Cutbacks
Climate change
Coal free energy day – UK's first since 1880's
“Clean” coal (T)
Cybercrime
Kellyanne Conway (T)
Credit card debt
“Cheesegrater” building sold to Chinese
Cambridge Analytica and Brexit and Trump (T)
Canada 150 years old
Curry button on Indian washing machines
Cadburys replace Fudge bar in selection box
Dany Cotton, first female Commissioner, London Fire Brigade
Chocolate cake, “most beautiful” fed to President Xi while bombing Syria (T)
Nick Clegg Knighthood announced
Curb Your Enthusiasm returns
James Comey, FBI Director fired (T)
Confederate statues and flags (T)
Jeremy Clarkson catches pneumonia
“Coalition of chaos”
China accused of selling oil to N Korea, despite sanctions
Bill Cosby sex assault case ends in mistrial
Cancer diagnosis scanners in supermarket car parks
Curtsey, Meghan Markle
CNN, constant attacks by (T)
Hayden Cross, UK's first pregnant man
