Simon Weston ‘inspired’ to run for police post by Tim Collins
Channel 4 News Correspondent Michael Crick blogs on Simon Weston’s decision to stand for election as a police and crime commissioners (PCCs).
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David Cameron demands action from the Home Office while BA’s Willie Walsh tells Channel 4 News that Damian Green was “misleading” the public over the extent of waiting times at passport control.
Did the Home Office ask the court when the deadline was? “Yes,” Mr Cameron replied.
“We can’t remember the last time the PM came out with two whoppers in one speech.”
The government says it will resist a bail application from lawyers representing Abu Qatada, the radical Muslim cleric ministers want to deport to Jordan.
Airlines are warning that Britain “‘risks gridlock” at airports over the Easter weekend as a result of border staff shortages.
As France swiftly expels two radical Islamists, Channel 4 News looks at why the British government is finding it so difficult to remove radical cleric Abu Qatada.
Retired Christopher Tappin is travelling to Texas to face charges over his involvement in the export of Hawk surface-to-air missiles to Iran between 2005 and 2007.
From today, victims of street crime in London will be able to report attacks online, as part of a scheme to get more people involved in keeping communities safe.
Channel 4 News Correspondent Michael Crick blogs on Simon Weston’s decision to stand for election as a police and crime commissioners (PCCs).
The government seeks assurances from Jordan as it steps up its efforts to deport Islamist cleric Abu Qatada, who has been described as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”.
As MPs call for a simpler law on gang-related murders, Channel 4 News hears contrasting views from a former gang member and a university law lecturer.
He appears to have taken the view that to run a dignified, half-respectful service that didn’t treat ordinary travellers insultingly badly, given the resources he had, he had to relax security and get the flow of visitors up through border checks.
A total of 170 people have been arrested following a remembrance service in Whitehall, central London, Scotland Yard has said. They are believed to be English Defence League (EDL) supporters.
Millions of people hold a two-minute silence to remember Britain’s war dead on Armistice Day.
As the UK’s border force chief is suspended over checks for non-EU nationals, a source tells Channel 4 News “we were told if there were queues, look at the passport and let them through”.