Liam Dutton
Speedy jet stream to give a stormy week
Low pressure after low pressure will arrive on our shores in the coming days, bringing milder air, heavy rain and very strong winds.
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£1m house sales soar to highest rate since recession
House sales over £1m have bucked the national trend and soared to their highest level since the height of the 2007 housing boom, says a new report.
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Missing children: new police system to assess risk
Police are to introduce a new national system to grade missing children, which they argue will free up resources and target attention on those at greatest risk.
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Man arrested as Birmingham bus victim named
A 22-year-old man is arrested in connection with the stabbing of Christina Edkins, 16, who was killed on a bus during rush hour in Birmingham.
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Five arrests over missing teenager Zoya Anwar
Police say they are “very concerned” for 18-year-old Zoya Anwar, from Walsall, who has been missing for more than a week.
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Birmingham men convicted of bomb plot ‘to rival 9/11’
Three men from Birmingham accused of plotting suicide attacks potentially deadlier than those of 9/11 face life sentences after being found guilty of terrorism.
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Buying a house ‘£120 cheaper a month than renting’
New figures released by Halifax show that falling house prices and low interest rates make buying a home £1,440 cheaper a year than renting.
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Hit and run toddler appeal: police release CCTV video
Police release shocking video of the moment a woman and child are hit by a car and appeal for help to track the driver who fled the scene. Incredibly, the pair were unharmed.
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Liam Dutton
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Mid Staffordshire health scandal: a question of trust
The public inquiry into care standards in Mid Staffordshire delivers its report shortly. Channel 4 News describes how events there touched even those at the top of the NHS.
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Mid Staffs scandal: did NHS bosses know what was going on?
Ahead of a new report into what happened at scandal-hit Stafford Hospital, repeated denials by NHS bosses that they knew what was going on are cast into doubt by evidence shown to Channel 4 News.
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Stabbing of Big Issue vendors ‘not a random attack’
The fatal stabbing of two Big Issue vendors in Birmingham city centre was not a random attack, police investigating the deaths reveal.
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Academies ‘covertly select’ privileged pupils
They were set up under the Blair government to improve underperforming schools. Now, more than a decade later, academy schools could fuel rather than improve social segregation, a new report warns.
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M6 crash boys were family’s ‘precious jewels’
The family of two young boys killed with their aunt in a Christmas day car crash on the M6 motorway pay tribute to their “precious jewels”.
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Two children and one adult killed after M6 crash
Two boys, aged four and ten, and one woman are dead after a crash on the M6 motorway between junctions 14 and 15 northbound in Staffordshire.
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CCTV casts doubt on account of Andrew Mitchell exchange
Exclusive: Dispatches and Channel 4 News reveal CCTV footage of the exchange between Andrew Mitchell and police officers that raises questions about the account in police logs leaked to the media.
