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Four sleeping children were murdered after the house they were trapped in was torched with petrol bombs, a court has been told. Zak Bolland, 23, is accused of setting fire to the house in Salford after a feud with the victims’ brother. Manchester crown court heard that the former friends had both carried out ‘”tit-for-tat”…
Jon Snow
Award-winning Channel 4 News journalist and presenter Jon Snow delivers the prestigious James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Change has come fast for Salford’s Ordsall estate and for many regeneration has brought hope. But for others gentrification has been unsettling – disrupting communities and demolishing old haunts. Matt Frei hears from some of those here in Ordsall who long for times gone by.
We’re at Ordsall estate, Salford, as we continue our ‘Housing Britain’ series. Tonight, we look at regeneration and gentrification as property prices here soar. We ask where gentrification leaves the communities it transforms – Is it a panacea for modern Britain?
Gary Gibbon
Labour still has a problem, as one senior Labour source close to Jeremy Corbyn admitted, with the traditional working-class supporters.
Thousands of junior doctors take part in a second one-day strike over plans to bring in a new contract that will oblige them to work more weekends. Emergency care is still being provided.
Victoria Macdonald
There is cause for optimism as a second strike is called off. But junior doctors are angry and hurt.
The Pentagon says it is “reasonably certain” British Islamic State extremist Mohammed Emwazi, also known as “Jihadi John”, has been killed in an air strike in Syria.
Labour may be the victim of entrism – infiltration by members and supporters of other parties – but it’s only a very small explanation of Jeremy Corbyn’s extraordinary success.
Almost 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which turned the area around the plant into a no-go zone, scientists are involved in a unique experiment in how nature copes with radiation.
During the general election campaign, Channel 4 News asked three young poets for their take on the problems they want solved by the election, from education to the housing crisis.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy takes an epic cycle ride through northern England, speaking to people who are passionate about politics – and also about not getting involved.
So how did they do? YouGov name SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon as the winner of the Leaders’ Debate and say David Cameron came out better than Ed Miliband.
Councils in Greater Manchester are to be given a key role in how the NHS budget is spent in the region as English devolution gathers pace. Why is this happening and what will it mean?
Some 45 per cent of British Jews say they may not have a long-term future in Britain, with a quarter having considered emigrating in the last two years because of anti-semitism.