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Roobarb creator dies at 91
Bob Godfrey, the animator of Roobarb and Custard and Henry’s Cat dies at the age of 91.
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Channel 4 News wins six RTS television journalism awards
Channel 4 News sweeps the board with a record six awards from the Royal Television Society – including daily news programme of the year.
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Robbers snatch £32m of diamonds in audacious heist
A gang of armed robbers posing as police pull off one of the biggest airport heists in history after grabbing diamonds worth £32m in Brussels.
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Name and shame tax avoiders, HMRC says
Tax avoidance schemes should be discouraged by the naming and shaming of those who promote them, according to a new report by the public accounts committee.
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Briton ‘kidnapped’ in Nigeria
The UK foreign office investigates reports that a British citizen is one of seven people to have been kidnapped by gunmen in rural northern Nigeria.
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That was ye weeke that was
Meteors in the sky, the Pope resigning, and horses in the headlines. Are we in the midst of a medieval revival? Cartoonist Matt Buck does his best impression of Hieronymus Bosch for Channel 4 News.
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British backpacker survived outback with lens solution
A British backpacker survives the Australian Outback for more than three days by drinking contact lens solution and his own urine.
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Asteroid to fly past earth
An asteroid with the potential to destroy London is going to narrowly miss earth – by 27,700 km. But that’s close in space terms, as the UK Space Agency’s Professor Richard Crowther explains.
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Meteor blows apart over Russia, injuring hundreds
On the day an asteroid hurtles past earth, more than 1,000 people are injured – many by broken glass – after a meteor streaks across the sky over Russia’s Ural mountains.
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Iraq war protest: 10 years after we marched
Ten years ago today, London witnessed a huge demonstration against the imminent invasion of Iraq. Channel 4 News speaks to four people who attended the protest.
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Oscar Pistorius to appear in court on murder charge
Oscar Pistorius, the South African Paralympic idol, will appear in court on Friday charged with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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Six ex-NoW journalists arrested in phone hacking probe
Six journalists, including two who work at the Sun, are arrested as part of an investigation into phone hacking. Channel 4 News looks at who has been arrested and charged so far.
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For the many, not the few: Obama’s bold liberal vision
Assertive, confident and in no mood for compromise. After years of frustration at a bitterly divided Congress, Obama laid out his priorities for the next four years: a wish list, or a realistic plan?
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North Korea will ‘never bow’ to UN, following nuclear test
North Korea says it will “never bow” to UN pressure to disarm following its nuclear test on Tuesday, the third in the country’s history.
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Derby house fire was ‘plan’ to frame ex-girlfriend
Mick Philpott, accused of killing his six children in a house fire, started the blaze as part of a “plan” to frame his ex-girlfriend after becoming locked in a custody battle, a court hears.
