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Language and logistics are just two hurdles the Channel 4 News team has to overcome in Japan. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson introduces you to the “fixer” who makes things happen.
Gary Gibbon
Today, the PM has made it clear that he didn’t try to talk Dr Fox into resigning. His spokesman is even saying that the PM said something along the lines of “are you sure?” when Dr Fox surprised him with his phone call saying he’d decided to go at around 2.30pm. I wonder how surprised he was.
Euro crisis, poor jobs figures, massive national strikes, on top of high inflation squeezing living standards – Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports on the political response to the economic bad weather.
Thirty five years in, and Political Correspondent Michael Crick is still looking forawrd to this year’s conference season…
First a newsflash, then the seven o’clock programme and a special extra bulletin: how Channel 4 News covered the worst terror strikes in history, and Jon Snow recalls his visit to Ground Zero.
Mr Chuvit was widely known as the “Godfather of the Thai sex industry”. He owned six “massage parlours” off a tatty stretch of motorway in northern Bangkok. But something changed, as John Sparks blogs.
The iconic steel electricity pylons that line motorways and spans valleys are due for a major makeover. As Tom Clarke reports, a competition is aiming to make the network more “visually pleasing”.
Drivers who tailgate and weave at speed in and out of motorway lanes could be handed on-the-spot fines under a new strategy to make Britain’s roads safer.
The Government issues a “summer smog” alert, warning of potentially dangerous levels of air pollution in England and Wales as millions of people take to the roads for the Bank Holiday getaway.
The Government is planning a review into what industrial activities can take place close to motorways as most lanes on the M1 re-open three days after it was damaged in a scrap yard fire.
A global shortage of meat has led to a massive increase in livestock rustling by organised criminal gangs, spelling trouble for the humble spring lamb.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson on working in post-tsunami Japan where food is scarce but journalists are given rare access to worst-hit areas.
No supplies, no petrol, no food – but no panic. The Japanese deal with their tsunami tragedy with silence and dignity, writes Alex Thomson.
As rescue workers search the debris for survivors after Japan’s devastating tsunami, Ed Fraser looks back at the lessons learned from the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004.
“The Coalition’s in trouble – and you heard it here first!”, was the triumphant conclusion of one of our guests last night. That may or may not be true, but with a resounding “No Way!” the Dispatches audience rejected every proposition before them on selling Britain’s assets to start paying off the national debt, which will this year hit a trillion pounds.