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FactCheck: are you richer or poorer than five years ago?
Labour says people are £1,600 worse off under the coalition. George Osborne says we will be £900 better off. Who’s right?
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Budget 2015: who are the winners and losers?
Savers, motorists and beer drinkers all have reasons to be cheerful after the final budget before the general election. But not everyone is happy with the chancellor.
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Leaked document calls for tougher extremism strategy
The Home Office paper reportedly says schools, universities, local councils and charities are vulnerable to infiltration by extremists.
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Tamil mother is refused bail despite pleas to president
Sri Lanka’s new president fails to free Tamil campaigner Balendran Jeyakumary despite a heartfelt appeal from her family.
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FactCheck: are you worse off under David Cameron?
Have living standards really bounced back to their pre-crash levels? Or are we losing thousands of pounds a year, as Ed Miliband says?
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Generation rent: a family trapped by lack of housing stock
Channel 4 News meets a family trapped in a rental dilemma: they could buy their current flat but it’s now too small for them, so is their dream of a home of their own now out of reach?
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Sex education: how it is taught here and abroad
MPs want sex education to be made compulsory in English state schools. What happens now – and how does this compare with other countries?
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Are political parties playing the age card?
How can political parties persuade younger voters to make their way to the polling stations in May in the face of apathy, a new electoral registration system, and recent policies aimed at pensioners?
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Labour’s Generation Rent plan – the key questions
Labour sets out plans to shake up private renting, with letting fees banned, longer tenancies and an end to “excessive” rent increases.
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Why is asthma so difficult to diagnose?
More than one million people receiving treatment for asthma may have been misdiagnosed because the causes are not well understood, a health watchdog says.
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FactCheck: how much has the coalition cost you?
Are you out of pocket thanks to coalition policies? And would it have been any different under a Labour government?
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How you can help rough sleepers during the cold
It is bitterly cold, you notice a rough sleeper in a doorway and wonder what you can do. Here is how you can help.
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Sri Lanka’s election: dog heads, threats and Charlie Hebdo
As voting closes in Sri Lanka’s elections, the biggest challenge to Mahinda Rajapaksa’s presidency in 15 years, there are accusations of violent intimidation and misuse of public property.
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Why do people use food banks?
As a cross-party group of MPs blames benefit delays for a huge rise in the use of food banks, Channel 4 News visits one south London food bank to speak to people there.
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Land reform brings prosperity to black Zimbabweans
Black Zimbabweans felt the country was not fully independent without the land reform.They feel they have now achieved that, but some white farmers disagree.