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The team returns for a new year to consider what the big stories will be.

Budgets take centre stage, including alarm over university finances and the NHS. Money can be found for a broken mountain railway in the Cairngorms, so why not everywhere else?
And will our politicians find a way to respond to Donald Trump and social media doomscroller-in-chief Elon Musk?

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