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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson returns to Dale Farm three months after travellers there were evicted.
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.
The Dale Farm travellers say they won’t resort to violence to save their homes, as a UN committee condemns plans to evict them.
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.
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”.
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…
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.
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?
Rural crime is rising, with tractor thefts linked to export gangs, but it is the organised gangs rustling sheep that really concerns farmers.
I was there! Britain is a world beater at celebrating big moments, writes Anna Doble – who watched Le Tour pass through her home town.
MPs accuse the government of an “extraordinarily complacent approach” to protecting bees, and urge the government to ban use of certain pesticides.