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FactCheck: the case for our luxury Legal Aid budget
The claim “The only place with more expensive Legal Aid than England and Wales is Northern Ireland, and no doubt they’ll be addressing the same question” Ken Clarke, Justice Secretary, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, June 29, 2011
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Counting the cost of Shapps’s ‘affordable rent’
Just how much will the affordable rent programme cost? Millions or billions? FactCheck investigates.
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Is Miliband right about benefit cuts to cancer patients?
Ed Miliband picked an emotive subject when he claimed the Welfare Bill would see 7,000 cancer patients lose almost £100 a week in benefits. “How can that be right?” he asked. FactCheck investigates.
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Q and A: who regulates care homes?
Who regulates care homes and residential hospitals, and how did the horrendous abuses apparently shown in the BBC’s Panorama pass by unnoticed? Channel 4 News investigates.
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Clegg demands NHS regulator re-think
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is set to oppose a key element of the NHS reforms. In a leaked document, he says he is unconvinced by plans for an “economic regulator” as if the NHS were a “utility”.
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The State of Play in Libya – Gaddafi style
“Getting past the phalanx of armed guards at the gates of the Rixos sans government minder is hard, but we’d obtained a contact who claimed to be a rebel fighter in the heart of the capital and we were determined to meet him. If he was prepared to take the risk, so were we…”
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FactCheck: Tuition fees are up, but will uni places be cut too?
The claim “Filling a hole of half a billion pounds by cutting university places could mean over 30,000 fewer young people going to university.”
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NHS: nurses ‘no confidence’ in Health Secretary
Nurses deliver a vote of no confidence in Health Secretary Andrew Lansley as an emergency medicine consultant tells Channel 4 News about the shortages and pressures in NHS hospitals.
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NHS ‘being attacked from all sides’, says nurse leader
The shake-up of the NHS is facing further intense criticism. Writing for Channel 4 News, Royal College of Nursing chief executive Dr Peter Carter says frontline staff are being attacked on all sides.
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Coastguard cuts threaten thousands of lives, and Prince William’s job
The claim “We want to make changes only if they improve the Coastguard support that people in fishing communities and elsewhere get.” David Cameron MP, Prime Ministers’ Questions, March 30, 2011
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Clegg casts doubt on NHS reform timetable
As MPs call on the Government to take a scalpel to its controversial NHS reform bill, Nick Clegg admits that doctors may not be ready to take over responsibility for funding decisions by 2013.
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Japanese nuclear power plant: friend of foe?
A nuclear plant in Japan, which is experiencing problems after the quake and tsunami, has taken in hundreds of local people who are homeless after the disaster. Alex Thomson tries to get inside to find out the full story but is denied access.
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Budget: Enterprise Zones on the way back
It was a flagship policy of the 1980s – and now that the Conservatives are back in government, they’re bringing back the Enterprise Zone.
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Libyan campaign ‘is costing Britain millions a day’
A defence expert tells Channel 4 News airstrikes against Colonel Gaddafi are already costing millions a day – and the consequences of ground forces getting sucked in ‘don’t bear thinking about’.
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Bringing competition – and the EU – into the NHS
When Ed Miliband challenged David Cameron over the NHS and EU competition policy in the Commons, it wasn’t just the PM who was confused. But did the Opposition leader have a point? FactCheck investigates.