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Jon Snow to step down as Channel 4 News presenter at end of 2021
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow has decided to step down from his role from the end of the year after 32-years at the helm of the flagship news programme.
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Sickle cell disease: do we take Black pain seriously?
The recent case of Richard Okorogheye, a 19 year old found dead in Epping Forest, has revealed the difficulties and discourse around sickle cell, the struggle of shielding for the past year, and the lack of understanding around this condition.
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Chinese fishing fleets threatening fragile Galapagos ecosystem
Chinese industrial fishing fleets have been plundering the waters off the Galapagos coast.
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Kent NHS trust pleads guilty over seven-day-old baby’s death
East Kent Hospitals Trust has pleaded guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment for a mother and baby boy who died.
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Series 7, Episode 7: Ayesha Vardag
Ayesha Vardag is arguably Britain’s most well-known divorce lawyer. She’s famous for representing the rich and the powerful and big high worth divorce cases.
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How poverty and corruption fuel terrorism across Africa
Attacks are on the rise across the African continent; a consequence of poverty, domestic grievances new and old, and Africa’s resource “curse”.
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Iran nuclear talks thrown into disarray by Natanz attack
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has dismissed the latest overtures aimed at saving the nuclear deal between Iran and major world powers as “not worth looking at”. Informal discussions on the deal are underway in Vienna, but plans to move into more formal talks have been thrown into disarray by the attack on Iran’s nuclear…
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‘We have to ask how long recovery will last’ – economist Mariana Mazzucato
Julie Abraham is chief executive of Richer Sounds, the home entertainment retailer with shops across the country, and Mariana Mazzucato is an economist who’s written about recovery from the pandemic.
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Body discovered in Epping Forest after disappearance of teenager
Police investigating the disappearance of 19-year-old Richard Okorogheye say they have found a body of a man in a pond in Epping Forest.
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Beeple digital-only ‘NFT’ artwork sells for £50m at auction
When Christie’s auctioned an artwork yesterday for £50 million, it showed that the world’s high-end art market was changing dramatically. The sale made the 39-year-old American known as Beeple the third richest living artist. What is so different about his collage of 5,000 images and drawings made over 5,000 days is that it doesn’t exist…
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Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe finishes five year Iranian sentence but now faces new court date
The British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe has had her ankle tag removed at the end of her five year sentence – although she’s been ordered to return to court in Tehran on Sunday and can’t yet return home to London. Her husband Richard Radcliffe described it as a “mixed day” – although Nazanin was “genuinely…
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Boris Johnson denies bias over towns funding scheme
Boris Johnson has denied that the government has been biased in the allocation of funds to struggling towns.
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Catch-up plan can lead to longer-term programme to close existing educational gaps, says former education secretary
A short while ago we spoke to former Conservative education secretary Justine Greening and began by asking her about how funds can be best targeted to address the massive gulf between rich and poor students.
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Trump is a ‘very dangerous man’, says George Bush’s former ethics lawyer
Richard Painter was the chief ethics lawyer under President Bush. He left the Republican Party in 2018.
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Every five minutes two people catch Covid in Swansea, says executive medical director
We spoke to the executive medical director of the Swansea Bay Health Board, Dr Richard Evans.