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Parliament recalled to mark death of Thatcher
MPs will pay tribute to Britain’s first female prime minister in a special Commons session.
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April Fool’s Day: the best of 2013
To celebrate April Fool’s day, traditional and new media alike have pulled plenty of pranks on the general public – but how many of them did you spot? Here we round up some of this year’s best.
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How long to put care and candour at the heart of the NHS?
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt outlines changes following the Mid Staffs scandal, with the NHS expected to be honest about mistakes and nurses forced to work as healthcare assistants.
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FactCheck: The nasty surprise in Boris’s police plan
Is London really “actively recruiting 4,500 more police” at the height of austerity, as Boris Johnson claimed today? FactCheck investigates.
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Woman dies as snow and floods batter Britain
Rescuers uncover a body trapped under a landslide after heavy rain, amid school closures and power cuts caused by extreme weather during the coldest March in decades.
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Civil servants plan second day of strikes
Civil servants to follow up a strike on Budget day with a second walkout in a row over pay, pensions and terms and conditions.
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FactCheck: What Unison isn’t telling you about jobs
There are four jobseekers competing for every vacancy, according to one of Britain’s biggest unions. But are things getting better or worse? FactCheck finds out.
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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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Lord Neuberger: attacking judges ‘not sensible’
Britain’s most senior judge attacks Theresa May for criticising immigration judges and warns cuts to legal aid funding could see people “take law into their own hands”.
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Welfare benefit restrictions would apply to British citizens
Restrictions on health and welfare benefits for immigrants from European Union states would have to apply equally to UK citizens under EU law, says Downing Street.
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Osborne’s missed targets from AAA to Z – FactCheck
We all know George Osborne failed to hold on to Britain’s triple-A credit rating. But what about the other benchmarks the chancellor asked us to judge him on?
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Nursing numbers down but don’t panic (yet)
Have Labour’s spinners overcooked claims of a crisis in nursing numbers? FactCheck dons its rubber gloves.
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West coast fiasco to cost taxpayers ‘at least £50m’
Civil servant failures over the west coast rail contract will cost taxpayers tens of millions of pounds, a report by MPs reveals.
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Has Barclays ‘learned the lessons of the past’?
As Barclays announces a big fall in profits and a revamp of its business, Channel 4 News looks at what went wrong at the bank and asks if the future will be any brighter.
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Libor rate-fixing scandal – the key questions
RBS is the third bank to be fined for attempting to fix the benchmark lending rate for financial institutions. What did these banks do and why does it matter?
