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  • 29 Jul 2011

    From a family holiday in Disney World, Florida, Louise Mensch issues an apology to CNN’s embattled celebrity anchor Piers Morgan, and reveals a colourful past.

  • 29 Jul 2011

    Thousands more civil servants are set to lose their jobs at the Ministry of Defence in a second wave of cuts that will reduce its workforce by 40 per cent.

  • 22 Jul 2011

    News Corporation’s marketing arm falls under the scrutiny of the US Justice Department, over allegations that it hacked into the computers of a rival firm.

  • 19 Jul 2011

    As the Murdochs face tough questions over phone hacking from a panel of MPs, Channel 4 News profiles the committee members, including Rupert Murdoch’s “tormentor in chief”, Tom Watson.

  • 10 Jun 2011

    Acclaimed war hero and travel writer Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor has died aged 96. His biographer Artemis Cooper tells Channel 4 News he died a “very old, very frail, but very happy” man.

  • 25 May 2011

    With Apache helicopters poised to attack Libya, MPs warn the Government it does not have a “blank cheque” to fund the fight against Colonel Gaddafi. Channel 4 News looks into upping the tempo.

  • 17 May 2011

    Britain donates more in foreign aid than ever before, with a budget set to eclipse that of the Home Office within four years. As Liam Fox raises concerns, Channel 4 News looks at where the money goes.

  • 2 Feb 2011
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    “It is also important we end the sensationalist myths about the local housing allowance reforms in 2011…In London around 750,000 private rental homes will still be affordable.” Lord Freud, minister for welfare reform, South London Press, January 11, 2011.

  • 28 Jan 2011
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    Three months on from the Spending Review, when the Chancellor pledged to protect Sure Start children centres (and one month since FactCheck last looked at Sure Start) – charities are warning that 250 such centres could be shut.

  • 26 Jan 2011
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    The claim “He is going too far and too fast with deficit reduction and that is what is inhibiting growth in this country” Ed Miliband, Labour leader, Prime Minister’s Questions, 26 January 2011

  • 25 Jan 2011
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    “They are clearly disappointing figures but the statisticians tell us that the weather had a huge effect – we had the coldest December for 100 years, businesses were closed, people couldn’t get to work… So we’re not going to be blown off course by the bad weather.”

  • 22 Jan 2011

    Sweeping reforms that could break-up Britain’s biggest banks will be the central focus of the banking inquiry in the coming months, the head of the commission said today.

  • 17 Jan 2011
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    The claim “Health inequalities in 21st century Britain are as wide as they were in Victorian times” Prime Minister David Cameron, speech on modern public service, January 17, 2011

  • 13 Jan 2011
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    The claim “I do think there’s a very attractive idea of saying that as oil prices rise and as the Treasury potentially benefits from some revenue from those oil price rises… is there a way of sharing the pain of increased petrol prices between the motorist on the one hand and the Treasury on the…

  • 12 Jan 2011
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    The claim “The bank bonus tax raised net £2.3bn…the bank levy will raise £2.5bn each year when it is fully up and running. And with the magic of addition if you have a bank levy every year – which we supported, he opposed – we will raise £9bn compared with his £2.3bn. Even the Shadow…

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