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Dale Farm travellers await High Court eviction ruling
Actress Vanessa Redgrave is leading last-ditch efforts to stop 86 traveller families being forced to leave Dale Farm in Essex, asking “in a homeless time why should they be disintegrated?”
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On a bright TV future
Instead of BBC-bashing or Murdoch-hating the guest speaker was Eric Schmidt of Google and we examined how convergence of traditional TV, video on demand, social media and the internet will change our lives. I have seen the future and spoken in TV tongues. I am born again. And like all “born-agains” it seems my duty to convert you.
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Travellers face mass eviction at Dale Farm
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.
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Rail fares set to jump 8 per cent
Commuters face more train travel misery as high inflation means ticket prices will increase by 8 per cent or more.
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Cyber warfare: teens fighting for national security
Channel 4 News has been granted unprecedented access to the cyber security firm Qinetiq and spoken to the teenagers who are helping protect the UK Government from cyber attacks.
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Life expectancy jump raises welfare concerns
New figures show that 20-year-olds are twice as likely to reach their 100th birthdays than their parents, leaving the State facing debilitating health and welfare bills.
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Norwegian ‘right-wing Christian’ charged by police
A “right-wing Norwegian Christian” is being questioned by police after at least 91 people were killed in a shooting on Utoya Island and a bomb blast in Oslo.
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Greenfly swarms torment farmers, shoppers – and tennis stars
Greenflies have descended on gardens, farmers’ fields and city centre shoppers across the UK. Even Wimbledon was hit by the swarms, which experts say are the biggest for years.
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Did Labour get the right brother?
Talk to those people who opposed his election, and who now feel worried about his leadership and there are at least two fundamental things they say Ed Miliband is going to have to go further and deeper on soon.
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Elderly people’s human rights ‘overlooked’ by care system
The basic human rights of older people being given care at home are being overlooked, with some left in bed for 17 hours between visits, according to early findings in a new inquiry.
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Is Miliband right about benefit cuts to cancer patients?
Ed Miliband picked an emotive subject when he claimed the Welfare Bill would see 7,000 cancer patients lose almost £100 a week in benefits. “How can that be right?” he asked. FactCheck investigates.
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‘Fingers crossed’ for welfare-to-work gamble
Employment Minister Chris Grayling tells Channel 4 News he is “keeping his fingers crossed” as he launches a revolutionary new scheme to get people off benefits.
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EU to boost E.coli compensation for farmers
The EU says it is prepared substantially to increase its 150m euro compensation offer to farmers hit by a deadly E.coli outbreak. Scientists still do not know the source of the infection.
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China admits cyber warfare unit
China admits for the first time that it has an elite unit of cyber warriors in its army, as an intelligence source tells Channel 4 News the threat is real, potent, and will be utilised in warfare.
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The kids are alright, off Facebook
It’s my little boy’s birthday today. He’s 4. I guess if Mark Zuckerberg had his way instead of shouting “wow” at 5.30 this morning when he saw the pile of presents at the end of his bed he’d have been online checking out his birthday greetings on his Facebook Wall, counting the pokes from his nursery school mates and downloading his gifts from an iTunes account.
