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  • 11 Feb 2013

    Tesco confirms horsemeat has been detected in its everyday value spaghetti bolognese, which was withdrawn last week.

  • 31 Jan 2013

    French dressing and petro-dollars for David Beckham

    Paris St Germain are the new petro-dollar fuelled kids on Uefa’s block, writes Sports Correspondent Keme Nzerem, as David Beckham prepares to join the French club.

  • 8 May 2012
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    couple of days after the budget, with rows raging about the “granny tax” and George Osborne’s decision to help the super-rich by cutting the 50p rate, the PM had what seemed like a smart idea. Number 10 decided to bring forward plans to increase the price of cheap alcohol, to tackle binge drinking and what David Cameron called “the mayhem on our streets”. According to Mr Cameron cheap booze is causing a “scourge of violence” – a million violent crimes and more than a million hospital admissions each year. Setting a minimum unit price (MUP) would, he promised, provide “a big part of the answer”. But I’ve found out that just four days before he made his announcement, he’d been warned by one of his own ministers that the policy could well be illegal. Was the PM right to go ahead or should he have listened to his colleague?

  • 28 Apr 2012

    Detectives hunting a Chinese businessman over the murder of a family of four have increased a reward for information leading to the prime suspect’s arrest.

  • 23 Apr 2012

    Multi-millionaire fraudster Michael Brown could remain in Spain for at least six months while Spanish authorities organise his UK extradition hearing and any appeals, lawyers say.

  • 20 Apr 2012
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    As the bitter battle for London’s City Hall rumbles on, Ken Livingstone threw in an old claim about affordable housing. But was it a good one? Team Boris didn’t think so. Pinging an email through to FactCheck, Boris’ camp labelled Mr Livingstone’s statement as a “false claim”. They added: “The London Development Database reports that there were actually 2,240 affordable starts over the same six month figures (April and September 2011)”. Who’s right? FactCheck homes in.

  • 30 Mar 2012

    Exclusive: Corrupt police officers are accused of deleting intelligence reports from the national police computer on the orders of criminal gangs in a secret report passed to the Leveson inquiry.

  • 7 Mar 2012

    Following the arrests of six alleged members of the LulzSec internet hacker collective, Channel 4 News scours their social media profiles and finds a love of weapons, chemistry and Julian Assange.

  • 5 Feb 2012

    Computer hacking and autism are increasingly mentioned in the same breath thanks to several high profile court cases but Channel 4 News asks if autism can really be used as a defence to online crime?

  • 1 Jan 2012

    A dedicated security team will be set up for the first time to identify illegal betting practices and attempts to fix events at the London 2012 Games.

  • 13 Dec 2011

    European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso criticises the UK’s approach to negotiations at last week’s Brussels summit, saying British demands risked compromising the internal market.

  • 10 Oct 2011
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    Metal theft has caused at least six deaths, 50 injuries, 60 fires and – a contender for stat of the year here – a total of 673 days of train delays in the last three years. But unless personally blighted by it – as Jon Snow was over the weekend – you’d be forgiven for being oblivious to the problem. Graham Jones, MP for Hyndburn in Lancashire, says it was the “constant concerns” of his wife and son – who both work for Electricity North West – that brought it to his attention. He is not alone in calling for a reform of the Metal Theft Act of 1964, which was slammed in the Lords last month for being “still legally in the age of Steptoe and Son”. But are we really dealing with a cable crime wave or has Mr Jones got his wires crossed? FactCheck dons its hard hat.

  • 28 Sep 2011

    Online dating scams are hugely under-reported despite conning some people out of hundreds of thousands of pounds, according to new research.

  • 12 Sep 2011

    As police continue their inquiries into how 24 vulnerable people were held and apparently kept as slaves on a Bedfordshire traveller site. Channel 4 News reveals just how widespread the practice is.

  • 3 Aug 2011

    Following Britain’s biggest seizure of cocaine, Channel 4 News looks at some of the more obscure drugs busts. Gangs have used rugs, cement mixers and even cucumbers to ply their illegal trade.

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