Top 10 most read news stories of 2024 on The Standard's website
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The Standard can reveal its top 10 most read news stories for 2024 - and it’s not the British election, the Paris Olympics or even Brat summer that has come out top. Hundreds of thousands of you have clicked on articles since January 1, but many of the most read stories have been from the final quarter of this year.
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With New Year’s Eve falling on Tuesday, here are the most read articles from the year that was - with all data being correct up until December 30. Officially the most read travel blog of the year, there was big interest in July when commuters were hit by the Elizabeth line being closed. This is how it played out.
The most read live blog of the year came after the prime minister held Cobra meetings in response to the riots across the UK. This is the story which went live all day on August 8. Search interest in the generations that people are part of showed no sign of abating in 2024, with this story carrying over and getting hundreds of thousands of views.
An update was that baby boomers are in worse health than the generations before at the same age despite living longer, a study has shown. It is now upon us, but a few months ago passengers were warned to avoid Euston for 10 days over Christmas due to engineering work and other station closures.
Ross Lydall reported the story back in September. It was very popular that Wilko returned in some capacity, as more than 600,000 clicked on this list to find out more. In the year that Sam Taylor-Johnson released her Camden set biopic of Amy Winehouse, we took a look at the life of her partner Blake Fielder-Civil.
