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Davos vs Davos Drive: go compare
As the great and the good meet in Davos, Switzerland this week, Channel 4 News takes a graphic look at how life at the top compares with life on the ground at Davos Drive, Staffordshire.
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Davos: creating the impression of business being done
The powerful attending the World Economic Forum in Davos must create the impression of action. What they will not do, writes Andrew Simms, is change the system to meet the needs of society.
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Miliband: consumers ‘to help improve uncompetitive markets’
Consumer groups will be given a greater role in identifying and fixing “broken markets” under plans set out by Ed Miliband for a shake-up of the way competition across the business world is regulated.
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Labour will cut banks down to size – Miliband
Labour leader Ed Miliband says there should be limits on the size of the big five high street banks, with the creation of two new lenders and the forced sale of branches to create more competition.
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Vodafone ‘shocked and surprised’ at UK and US spying
Vodafone’s head of privacy tells Channel 4 News the company will be “contacting the government… and challenging them” on interception of text messages.
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Miliband vows competition ‘reckoning’ with banks
Labour leader Ed Miliband promises to force banks to give up branches in order to make way for new competitors if Labour wins the next general election.
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FactCheck: bankers’ bonuses
A spot of banker bashing from Ed Miliband and a carefully-worded promise from the Prime Minister to cap pay at RBS. What does it all mean?
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Cameron ducks proposals to veto RBS bank bonuses
Prime Minister David Cameron ducks Labour demands for the government to veto individual bonuses paid to RBS bankers.
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Shock and silverware: phone hacking trial week 9
The prosecution case moved onto allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice as the jury returned for the new year. Here are five details that came to light in the first week back.
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Channel 4 News blogs: the best of 2013
From Syria to Sri Lanka, Nelson Mandela to Weinergate, Nigel Farage to Quentin Tarantino – this is a selection of some of our best blogs from from the past 12 months.
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Honours List: More women than men for first time ever
For the first time ever, more women than men have been honoured in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. Awardees include actress Penelope Keith, cleaners and an NHS whistleblower.
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FactCheck: Are builders causing the housing crisis?
Ed Miliband wants to force developers to build on land where planning permission has been granted. Are the big housebuilders really behind Britain’s housing crisis?
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Ireland exits bailout: ‘biggest crisis since famine’
Ireland officially exits its strict bailout programme and re-enters money markets but the years of austerity budgets and unemployment are not over yet.
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Lloyds fined for ‘serious failings’ in bonus scheme
Taxpayer-backed Lloyds Banking Group is fined a record £28m after the City regulator uncovered failings in its bonus schemes that put pressure on sales staff to hit targets or risk being demoted.
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Major banks fined 1.7bn euros for rate fixing
Eight banks, including RBS, are fined a record 1.7bn euros for colluding to rig interest rates, but Barclays escapes punishment after blowing the whistle on the practice.