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  • 30 Mar 2011

    Channel 4 News charts gun crime in the capital as the chair of London’s anti-gun campaign says more resources must be spent on preventing inner city youngsters turning to firearms.

  • 2 Dec 2010

    As questions are asked about the preparedness of the government, rail services and travel firms, commuter Graham Lally writes for Channel 4 News about his nightmare journey from London to Brighton.

  • 24 Nov 2010

    Thousands of students have taken part in rallies against tuition fees. As Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reports, a police van was attacked and a bus shelter torched in central London.

  • 4 Nov 2010

    Prime Minister David Cameron announces that he wants east London to become a high-tech centre to compete with California’s Silicon Valley.

  • 27 Oct 2010

    Around 6,000 disabled people have volunteered to help at London 2012. Britain’s most successful Paralympian says it represents a huge change in attitudes from when she first started to compete.

  • 24 Sep 2010

    Ken Livingstone will face Boris Johnson in the 2012 election to be London mayor after overwhelmingly winning the Labour party candidacy.

  • 7 Sep 2010

    London commuters face a tough journey as Underground workers strike leaving millions facing a lengthy journey to work, with unions describing support for the walk-out as “rock solid”.

  • 6 Sep 2010

    London Underground staff stage the first in a series of strikes over cuts. Expert Tony Travers tells Channel 4 News that management must make it clear striking cannot be tolerated.

  • 6 Sep 2010

    New colour footage shows the widespread devastation caused by the German bombing attacks on London 70 years ago. One historian tells Channel 4 News how the attacks changed the face of the capital.

  • 9 Dec 2009

    Close of play on Day 11 and some familiar themes from our Iraq Inquiry blogger.

  • 23 Sep 2009

    Time for the City grandees to wake up

    It was brave of Lord Turner to take his controversial take on the future of finance directly to an audience of black-tied bankers at the Mansion House. He was heckled, and the mood music in the City, and apparently at the dinner too, seems to resemble the attitude of a teenager who has been banned…

  • 4 Sep 2009

    Where now for the Tory defenders of the City?

    About two years ago I met one of the top British bankers and asked for an opinion on Brown/Darling vs Cameron/Osborne. I was shocked to hear his scepticism about the Tory business policy versus the government. To be clear, this was Brown at his absolute peak, still ahead in the polls, just before Northern Rock…

  • 22 Jul 2014

    Financial sanctions on Russia: big or nothing?

    We just sent a camera out to film “Russian influence” in the City of London. As I expected, there’s a few nameplates, some doorbells and the odd logo – Alfabank, Sberbank – and that’s it.

  • 19 Jun 2013

    Chancellor George Osborne gives his annual Mansion House speech in the City of London. Faisal Islam reports on what he has to say about the UK’s banking sector.

  • 11 Apr 2013

    Among the contenders for “Thatcher’s legacy” is the de-regulation of the City of London. Is Margaret Thatcher responsible for today’s double-dip recession? Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports.