Tomorrow is the last day of 2014. The year was, by turn, “turbulent”, a year of “tragedy, crises and hope”, a “year of mysteries” the “year of the unthinkable”, and of course, a “delectably good year for sleaze“.

You can have your year in search,  in headlines (in video), in tech, in pictures, in fast facts, in seven addresses or even in wrestling.

Some hugely talented people left us: musicians, actors and notable entertainers, as well as other icons, legends and stars.

But after all the reviews, analyses, photo-galleries, critiques, and head-scratching about the past year, lets just leave it to John Oliver to sum up.

Finally, it would, of course, fall to the very end of the year to offer a story so heartbreaking it almost defies the telling. But perhaps the saddest thing of all is that it will, without a shadow of a doubt, be far from the last story of its type.