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Man who hacked abortion service website jailed
A man who hacked into the website of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service is jailed for two years and eight months, as activists fear a rise in confrontational US-style anti-abortion protests.
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Cross-party funding talks begin
Face-to-face talks on how to reform the way political parties are funded have begun, reveals Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
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Drug firm Roche faces criticism over swine flu drug data
Swiss drug company Roche is facing renewed critiscism over its failure to release full research data on its drug Tamiflu, widely stockpiled by governments to combat the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
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Sun-kissed French beach is actually… South Africa
An advertising campaign inviting tourists to “come and play” in France has backfired after it emerged the posters featured “little bit cheeky” images of South Africa and the US.
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NHS reforms ‘threaten emergency care’
With the NHS bill receiving royal assent, a leaked document drawn up by senior civil servants warns that the government’s reforms could damage the health service.
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Party funding: what is the solution?
“Action should be taken now to end the big donor culture before another scandal does further damage” – the warning four months ago from the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
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FactCheck: Are police numbers at emergency levels?
“Our best guess now, as also pointed out by the independent House of Commons library in their recently updated report on police service strength, is that frontline officer numbers will fall by around 2,500 posts from 2010 to 2012.”
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Six British soldiers feared dead in Afghanistan
Six British soldiers are missing, believed killed, after an armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in Afghanistan.
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From City to Sandhurst, a woman’s journey
Heloise Goodley was a high-flying City banker when she decided to quit business lunches for the battlefield. Writing for Channel 4 News she describes her new “way of life”.
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Can HIV-style campaign cut world hunger?
Preventing world hunger could lift global GDP by 41 per cent, according to Save the Children. The charity tells Channel 4 News a worldwide campaign, similar to that launched against HIV, is needed.
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Families ‘to lose £4,000’ under tax credit changes
More than 200,000 families will lose tax credits worth almost £4,000 a year unless they significantly increase their working hours, according to figures highlighted by Labour today.
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Public libraries – the face of the future
Birmingham’s ambitious new public library is due to open next year – providing another architectural landmark in the very heart of the city, and a cultural treasure trove for generations to come.
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Deep clean at Belfast’s Royal Maternity Hospital
A deep clean is being carried out in Belfast’s Royal Maternity Hospital’s neonatal room after three babies died from a bacterial infection.
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Bodleian treasures: first Anglo-Japanese trade deal
In our final Bodleian treasures feature, Faisal Islam assesses the significance of a 1613 trade deal between England and Japan – “of incredible importance to Britain’s political and economic history”.
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Bodleian treasures: Suffragettes demand the vote
“What struck me was the sheer scale of that 1908 Hyde Park rally” – Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman on documents from a Suffragette march, on display at the Treasures of the Bodleian exhibition.