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Unemployment falls but claimant figures up
Unemployment falls to 2.46 million in the first three months of 2011, down 36,000, but the number of people on Jobseeker’s Allowance rises as women claimants hit a 14-year high.
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Police hunt ‘business associate’ over Northampton murders
Police hunting the killer of a Chinese family in Northampton want to speak to Anxiang Du, who they say was a business associate of the murdered university lecturer.
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Farmers fleeced by sheep thieves
A global shortage of meat has led to a massive increase in livestock rustling by organised criminal gangs, spelling trouble for the humble spring lamb.
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Unemployment hits women hardest
Unemployment figures published today reveal that one in five young people are unemployed, but women across all age groups are bearing the brunt of joblessness.
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Two teenagers stabbed in separate attacks
A 15-year-old boy was stabbed and beaten with a bat in Bradford just hours before a girl aged 14 was attacked with a knife outside the gates of her school in Stourbridge, it has emerged.
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LIVE BLOG: Budget 2011 – as it happened plus analysis
Chancellor George Osborne delivers Budget 2011 and a fuel duty “bombshell”. Follow reaction and analysis, plus video and comments from the #c4Budget Twitter panel.
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Cameron in the dock over frontline police cuts
The claim “He’s wrong. ACPO aren’t talking about frontline officers, so he’s simply wrong about that.” David Cameron MP, Prime Minister’s Questions, March 9, 2011 “Now we hear that companies who have been burgled are going to be sent fingerprint kits in the post.” Ed Miliband MP, Prime Minister’s Questions, March 9, 2011
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Could councils sell land to fill budget holes?
Local councils are facing tough budget cuts. But could they sell off some of their 11,000 acres of land to cope? Channel 4’s Dispatches investigates how much land your local council owns.
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LIVE BLOG: Dozens dead in New Zealand earthquake
Dozens of people are killed as a major earthquake hits New Zealand’s second biggest city of Christchurch. For updates and video from #c4news follow the live blog – and add your voice.
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Dozens dead and hundreds hurt in New Zealand earthquake
Dozens of people have been killed by the Christchurch earthquake. One British rescuer, who is going to New Zealand, tells Channel 4 News he is hopeful of finding survivors.
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How printing in 3-D could save lives
Tom Clarke reports on how the new printing technology that allows 3-D objects to be created from any flat scanned image – including the human heart – is starting a medical revolution.
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Julie Walters: how films can change your life
Oscar-nominated actress Julie Walters tells Samira Ahmed how the films she watched as a child fired her ambition to act – and why she believes such an ambition would be unrealistic nowadays.
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Nursery worker remanded on child rape charge
Paul Wilson, 20, is remanded in custody charged with raping a child. He had been held overnight after an inquiry into alleged sexual abuses at the Little Stars Nursery in Birmingham.
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Birmingham nursery worker charged in child abuse inquiry
A 20-year-old nursery assistant from Birmingham is to appear in court charged with the oral rape of a child attending the nursery where he works.
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Christmas ‘terror plot’ targeted London landmarks
Nine men are remanded in custody accused of an alleged terror plot to blow up the London Stock Exchange and the American Embassy, and planning a series of parcel bombs directed at prominent figures.
