Search results for ‘West Midlands’

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  • 1 Dec 2011

    Last year, two-thirds of the country’s police forces fired Tasers significantly more – some by up to 800 per cent – than in the preceding year, a Channel 4 News investigation can disclose.

  • 30 Nov 2011

    Labour fires gun on police commissioner selections

    Labour’s National Executive Committee has given the go-ahead for local parties to start picking candidates for the new posts of police commissioners reports Michael Crick

  • 30 Nov 2011

    Labour’s National Executive Committee has given the go-ahead for local parties to start picking candidates for the new posts of police commissioners reports political correspondent Michael Crick.

  • 15 Nov 2011

    Police investigating after a 10-year-old boy went missing on his way to local shops have charged a man with kidnap and sexual assault.

  • 17 Oct 2011

    House prices in the south of England are more than double those in the north, creating a “record divide”, according to a report by property website Rightmove.

  • 3 Oct 2011

    How regressive is a council tax freeze?

    Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes on Chancellor George Osborne’s council tax freeze and one joke you may not hear at David Cameron’s leader speech tomorrow…

  • 26 Sep 2011

    A village in Devon is the best place to bring up children in England and Wales, new research claims. How does your city, town or village compare?

  • 19 Sep 2011

    Car giant Jaguar Land Rover announces a multi-million pounds investment which could bring hundreds of jobs to the employment-starved Midlands.

  • 19 Sep 2011

    A house in Birmingham searched by anti-terror police is the same address where a man convicted of sending weapons to the Taliban lived, Channel 4 News learns. Six men are being questioned after raids.

  • 13 Sep 2011

    The Boundary Commission for England’s recommendations for the redrawing of constituencies have thrown up several surprises. We look at some of the winners and the losers.

  • 13 Sep 2011

    Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Chancellor George Osborne are among a number of big political names who face having their consitutency boundaries redrawn. Channel 4 News analyses the changes.

  • 6 Sep 2011

    Feral Underclass is a humdinger of a phrase from Ken Clarke, but what does it mean? Previously, David Cameron lumped the rioters together as “pockets of our society that are not only broken, but frankly sick”. And after almost a month of naming and shaming the rioters in the national press, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has released the facts. So do they deserve the stigma? FactCheck investigates.

  • 31 Aug 2011

    Police investigating the murders of three men who were hit by a car while protecting shops and homes from looters have charged a 29-year-old man with murder.

  • 20 Aug 2011

    Video footage of hooded rioters firing shots at police officers and a helicopter in Birmingham has been released. Police call the video “disturbing” and are appealing for help finding the group.

  • 17 Aug 2011

    A fourth man has been charged with the murders of three men hit by a car while protecting shops from looters in Birmingham.