Meghan Markle, iPhone 8 and fidget spinners have been announced as the UK's top trending searches of 2017.

Today, Google announced the results of its 2017 Year in Search, with Meghan Markle named as the UK's top trending search term this year ahead of the iPhone 8 and Hurricane Irma.

This year's biggest news events - Manchester bombing, Grenfell Tower and Hurricane Irma - are prominent the in the overall top 10.

'How to make slime?' was the UK's top 'How To' query, ahead of 'How to stay young?' and 'How to watch Mayweather vs McGregor?'.

The 'What Is' search which saw the biggest spike was 'What is a hung parliament?' followed by 'What is an exit poll?' and 'What is the Confederations Cup?'.

Hurricane Irma, Manchester bombing and Grenfell Tower were the UK's top three trending news event searches, with spikes in search interest on finding ways to volunteer and donate to related causes.

The most commonly searched people of 2017 were Meghan Markle, Tara Palmer Tomkinson and Shannon Matthews.

Bitcoin mania was reflected in three entries for the cryptocurrency in the 'What is' and 'How to' categories.

The UK results in full:

Google UK top trending searches of 2017:

1. Meghan Markle
2. iPhone 8
3. Hurricane Irma
4. Fidget spinner
5. Manchester bombing
6. Grenfell Tower
7. 13 Reasons Why
8. Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
9. Shannon Matthews
10. iPhone X

Google UK top trending 'What is...?' queries of 2017:

1. What is a hung Parliament?
2. What is an exit poll?
3. What is the Confederations Cup?
4. What is Bitcoin?
5. What is the Antikythera mechanism?
6. What is a pangolin?
7. What is a general election?
8. What is waterboarding?
9. What is the DUP?
10. What is Pink's real name?

Google's global top trending searches of 2017:

1.Hurricane Irma
2. iPhone 8
3. iPhone X
4. Matt Lauer
5. Meghan Markle
6. 13 Reasons Why
7. Tom Petty
8. Fidget Spinner
9. Chester Bennington
10. India National Cricket Team

UK Top Trending ‘How To’ Queries

1. How to make slime?
2. How to buy Bitcoin?
3. How to stay young?
4. How to watch Mayweather vs McGregor?
5. How to watch Joshua vs Klitschko?
6. How to mine Bitcoins?
7. How to make Yorkshire pudding?
8. How to make a fidget spinner?
9. How to vote in the general election?
10. How to lose belly fat fast?