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Cameron unveils immigrant benefits crackdown
David Cameron outlines how he will end Britain’s “something for nothing” immigration culture, with curbs on unemployment and housing benefits and access to the NHS.
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How does wintry weather affect UK gas supplies?
We are in the grip of a long, cold winter, and UK gas supplies are feeling the strain – but the National Grid says the prospect of running out of gas is “nonsense”, writes Tom Clarke.
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Job security ‘lower for UK women’ – report
Women in the UK are less likely to be in work, experience lower job security and greater pay inequality than their counterparts in other developed countries, according to a new study.
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Bonnie Tyler hopes for UK ‘hero’ at this year’s Eurovision
Bonnie Tyler, whose smash hits include Total Eclipse of the Heart, will represent the UK at this year’s Eurovision competition in May.
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Hundreds of birds found covered in sticky substance
Hundreds of seabirds continue to be washed up along the south coast of England, covered in an unidentified sticky, waxy substance. The source of the pollution remains unknown.
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Al Gore on The Future
Al Gore is worried about David Cameron. When I put it to him that some political leaders in Britain were starting to row back on the climate change agenda he jumped straight at the Prime Minister.
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Press Freedom 2013: Mali plummets following turmoil
Mali is the country that falls the furthest in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom index as a result of the conflict which still divides the nation.
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Women should not join combat units – female veteran
As the US military ends its ban on women in combat roles, the first woman in the British Army to command an all-male field force squadron tells Channel 4 News that women should not join the infantry.
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UK may increase support for French in Mali
UK support for the French-led military operation in Mali could be cranked up after David Cameron’s vow to show “iron resolve” in tackling Islamist terrorism in the wake of the Algerian hostage crisis.
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Algerian crisis: energy giants’ security concerns
Energy giants will be rethinking their presence in the region after Islamist fighters seize foreign workers at Algeria’s In Amenas field, an energy security analyst tells Channel 4 News.
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Britons held in Algeria ‘significantly fewer than 30’
David Cameron tells MPs that fewer than 30 Britons were initially thought to have been kidnapped in Algeria, but this number has now been “quite significantly reduced”.
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Britain’s far right collapses amid infighting and legal woes
The beleaguered English Defence League takes to the streets of Solihull on Saturday. But with its figurehead Tommy Robinson in prison, is Britains far right a spent force?
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As Europe celebrates in Oslo, Cameron plans referendum
European leaders are in Norway to celebrate the award of the Nobel peace prize to the EU – as it emerges an absent David Cameron is to set out plans for a repatriation of powers and an EU referendum.
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Gas tanker completes first ever Arctic winter voyage
A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas becomes the first of its kind to cross the Arctic Ocean from Norway to Japan, in a voyage that could have huge implications for the gas market – and the Arctic.
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Ash dieback ‘beyond control’
Confirmed cases of the deadly tree disease ash dieback are now so widespread that controlling the illness without a cure will pose “long term problems”, the environment secretary warns.