Felicity Spector

From bible bashing to very public gaffes – it seems there’s not much that’s off limits in the US presidential race, as the Republicans outdo each other to prove they’re never wrong for long.

The motorway service station chain Little Chef is shutting 67 outlets and axeing almost a third of its workforce. But Greggs the bakers are raising a toast, after seeing their Christmas profits soar.

Voters in New Hampshire are casting their ballots in the first primary in America’s presidential race. Channel 4 News asks whether Mitt Romney will get the convincing victory he needs.

The camping and outdoor chain Blacks has gone into administration – the latest retailer brought down by the economic downturn. Channel 4 News looks at which shops are facing the most pain.

It’s not just women who often obsess about their appearance. New research shows that even more men are worrying about how they look, whether it’s getting fat or going bald.

No sooner was she sworn in – than Jamaica’s new prime minister declared she wants to drop Her Majesty the Queen as head of state and cut all colonial-era links.

Mitt Romney didn’t win convincingly in Iowa and just one of his rivals has bowed out. But he’s got cash, he’s got organisation: the Republican nomination is still his to lose, writes Felicity Spector.

Mitt Romney has won Iowa with the narrowest of margins. But as Felicity Spector reports, there is no rest for a would-be president, as candidates head for the next step on the campaign trail.

In the run up to 2012’s first presidential contest in Iowa, Channel 4 News looks at the Republican party nominees in what has been a volatile election race.

A bumper Boxing Day and up to 12 million shoppers on the streets on Tuesday – but economists are still warning of gloom for the British economy in 2012.

The former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has suffered another blow to his Presidential hopes: he’s failed to get on the ballot for the Republican primary in his own state, writes Felicity Spector.

Government plans to slash incentive payments to people who install solar panels in their homes have been declared “legally flawed”.

At least 10,000 people pack the streets of Prague as the body of former Czech president Vaclav Havel is taken in procession to Prague Castle, where it will lie in state for three days.

A woman who suffered a series of miscarriages has managed to give birth to a healthy baby girl – after doctors came up with a radical solution.

As the former Poet laureate Ted Hughes is honoured with a new plaque in Westminster Abbey, Felicity Spector asks whether poetry is undergoing something of a renaissance.