Alex Thomson
Down on the farm nothing is simple
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson returns to Dale Farm three months after travellers there were evicted.
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Dale Farm travellers lose eviction battle
Traveller families living at Dale Farm, Essex, face eviction after their High Court loss. A supporter tells Channel 4 News there will be “non-violent direct action” if necessary to stop the eviction.
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Travellers face mass eviction at Dale Farm
After ten years of legal wrangling, there are just ten days left until Basildon District Council can forcibly clear one of the largest unauthorised traveller sites in Europe.
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Will more power to nimbys be the death of wind farms?
Many onshore wind farms may become uneconomic warn the renewables industry after the government announces new planning rules giving communities more power to object to new schemes.
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Minister’s wind farm remarks ‘damaging for growth’
Britain’s economic growth will be further damaged by fresh confusion over windfarms and renewable energy, warn leading businesses such as Marks and Spencer and Aviva.
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Villagers mount vigil against unauthorised gypsy site
It is being dubbed the next Dale Farm. The village of Meriden is caught in a very Middle England dispute, with villagers mounting a vigil against a gypsy development, writes Darshna Soni.
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Travellers deny eviction battle will turn violent
The Dale Farm travellers say they won’t resort to violence to save their homes, as a UN committee condemns plans to evict them.
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Bedroom tax: legal fight ‘not over’
Grant Shapps hit back at the UN, saying UK courts approved the so-called “bedroom tax” policy. But Channel 4 News hears that lawyers are continuing to fight it on human rights grounds.
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Pickles accused of joining ‘open season’ on minorities
Eric Pickles is under fire after issuing new guidelines on how to tackle illegal traveller sites, with campaigners claiming he would spark an “open season on ethnic minorities”.
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Almost one in five MPs are landlords
Parliament has published its register of MPs’ financial interests for the first time since the election. An analysis by FactCheck shows that 123 MPs earn extra money by renting out homes and private property. Landlord MPs account for almost a fifth of all MPs. Their properties include houses, flats, farms, holiday cottages and shops. The MPs include chancellor…
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Alex Thomson
Who owns Scotland? Not exactly feudal, but pretty weird
The SNP promised radical reform of land ownership in Scotland, a country where fewer than 500 people own more than half of all private land.
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General election: what we didn’t talk about
The economy, immigration and the NHS were some of the hot topics discussed during the general election – but what were the issues left off the agenda?
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Sheep rustling surge blamed on organised gangs
Rural crime is rising, with tractor thefts linked to export gangs, but it is the organised gangs rustling sheep that really concerns farmers.
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Tour de France: how British crowds became world beaters
I was there! Britain is a world beater at celebrating big moments, writes Anna Doble – who watched Le Tour pass through her home town.
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Ban pesticides to protect bees, MPs tell government
MPs accuse the government of an “extraordinarily complacent approach” to protecting bees, and urge the government to ban use of certain pesticides.
