2014: what happened next?
What became of the grieving families left in the aftermath of flight MH370? How are the victims of the Somerset floods rebuilding their waterlogged homes and lives? Is Normcore really a thing, and how close did Kim Kardashian get to breaking the internet with her bum? We asked writers to revisit some of the biggest and strangest stories of 2014, to find out what happened when life went back to normal – or if it didn’t
The Sochi Olympics legacy: ‘The city now feels like a ghost town’
The campaigners who won’t forget the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram
Isis’s British connections: the jihadists who want to bring the fight to the west
Britain’s benefits sanctions: ‘My brother’s gone. We can’t bring him back, but we can’t let this go on’
The DIY toll road: was it a journey to nowhere?
Rotherham abuse scandal: a town still reeling
How Yorkshire won the 2014 Tour de France: the Grandest Départ’s legacy
Pharrell's hat: ‘Now I’m locked in a fridge with Lady Gaga’s meat dress’
The Great British Bake Off scandal: ‘It makes good TV if there’s conflict’
The woman in 10 Hours Walking in NYC: ‘I got people wanting to slit my throat’
Normcore: how a spoof marketing term grew into a fashion phenomenon
Somerset floods: ‘What happened next utterly broke our family’
London’s housing crisis: I joined the exodus of priced-out thirtysomethings
Lana Del Rey’s death wish: how our interview unleashed a storm of hate
After the devastation of Gaza: ‘My son asked me: when will the next war be?’
MH370 families, nine months on: ‘I still have hope, maybe 1%’
How Kim Kardashian broke the internet with her butt
