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After six British soldiers are presumed killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, pushing the death toll above the 400 mark, Channel 4 News asks how so many could have died in a newly-reinforced vehicle?
Business Secretary Vince Cable confirms to Channel 4 News that the Liberal Democrats are pushing for a shift in this month’s budget away from the 50p tax rate and towards a “mansion tax”.
The firm might have expected its promise to create 20,000 jobs over the next two years to be enthusiastically endorsed – or at least, to borrow from its own slogan, to be embraced with the verdict “every little helps”. But few are prepared to take what Tesco says on trust. Do these figures strip out jobs lost? Are they full-time posts? Over to the team.
Gary Gibbon
A lot of pre-Budget kite-flying going on. Always a danger that you raise expectations with exercises like that and then find you can’t deliver on them. On child benefit, the Treasury seems to be looking at a number of ways of ameliorating the child benefit removal for 40 per cent tax payers. All of them look pretty expensive. The plan is to have something ready to announce in the Budget on 21 March.
Can Ken Livingstone bring back the EMA? FactCheck gets out its red pen.
A government deal aimed at cutting the cost of court translation services, results in a boycott by interpreters and additional cost to the taxpayer, Channel 4 News has learned.
Gary Gibbon
What are the implications of the Irish having a referendum on the European fiscal compact treaty?
Nick Clegg applauds his peers for making a series of last-minute amendments to his own government’s NHS reforms, as Social Care Correspondent Victoria Macdonald reports.
A childcare charity’s survey finds childcare costs up almost six per cent, as it calls on the government to scrap changes to child tax credits which it says could push some families into poverty.
Despite the ring of alarm bells over frontline police numbers, David Cameron told the House of Commons that the thin blue line is actually getting fatter. Is he right? FactCheck investigates.
Union leaders are threatening industrial action, after local authorities said 1.6 million council workers are to be hit by a pay freeze for the third year in a row.
As Edinburgh Woollen Mill swoops again to save another high street fashion chain, Channel 4 News asks how many other retailers faced with bankruptcy may be rescued from the brink.
Former defence secretary Liam Fox is leading backbench Tory demands for Chancellor George Osborne to cut taxes on business.
Eurozone governments finally agree a second bailout package for Greece after months of wrangling and a last round of more than 12 hours of talks in Brussels.
As Greece is handed a new 130bn euro lifeline, Channel 4 News asks whether it will stave off collapse – and what the deal means for the Greek people.