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Nearly 19,000 victims of so-called revenge porn in four years, investigation finds
Children younger than 10 are among the nearly 19,000 victims who have reported cases of image-based sexual abuse – so-called ‘revenge porn’ – to police in the last four years, Channel 4 News can reveal. This programme has received Freedom of Information responses from 34 of the UK’s 45 police forces which shows the scale…
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Can ‘levelling up’ bridge the north-south divide?
Liz Bates explains how what started as a slogan has now become important enough to have its own government department.
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Tory MPs ‘have had enough of accident-prone Boris Johnson’, says Spectator editor
With cuts to universal credit and to HS2 and Northern Powerhouse rail, how well is levelling up going, and with it Boris Johnson?
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British Columbia: At least one dead in flooding as state of emergency declared
The Canadian province of British Columbia has seen a month’s worth of rain in just two days.
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Levelling Up: How is key government project going?
The government has touted its announcements on high-speed rail as “one of the biggest single acts of levelling up of any government in history”. But how is the levelling up project going?
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How the North and Midlands reacted to shelving of HS2 line
Clare Fallon reported from Leeds, after the government scrapped the Leeds leg of the HS2 high-speed rail line, and Darshna Soni reported from Nottingham.
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Is the four-day working week the future?
In today’s episode, we speak to one of the researchers behind the four-day week trial. Does it really work, and could it soon be coming to an office near you?
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FactCheck: business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng exaggerates UK offshore wind investment by £53bn
The true figure is less than half the amount he claimed.
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Southeastern trains taken over by government after franchise breach
Services across its network will now be run by the government instead, while more options are being considered, including financial penalties.
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Afghanistan: Women’s fears under Taliban rule
Talibs have now raised their flag over the presidential palace, heralding the dawn of a new era. And what that new reality means for Afghan women is now becoming clear.
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July becomes hottest month ever recorded according to American government scientists
July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to American government scientists. Both global land and ocean temperatures were 0.9 degrees centigrade above the 20th century average. Countries from Asia to Europe have been scorched by heatwaves and wildfires, while extreme weather of another form, flooding, has also left a trail of devastation. Symeon Brown…
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FactCheck Q&A: what is the voter ID row all about?
Not having to show ID creates an obvious theoretical risk of “personation” – people pretending to be someone else in order to steal their vote. But there is no evidence that this is a widespread problem in the UK.
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Keir Starmer says he’s ‘a man who can’t stand injustice’ as Labour face pressure in polls
In just two days voters in many parts of the country will go to the ballot box to elect mayors and local councils across England, national parliaments in Scotland and Wales, as well as two by-elections.
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Series 7, Episode 8: James Wong
In the wake of the judgment of the Derek Chauvin murder trail, Krishnan talks to James about the existence of racism and classicism within the gardening world.
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Shirley Williams, former Labour minister and Lib Dem peer, dies at 90
The Liberal Democrat peer who helped to change the face of centre-left politics in the UK, Baroness Shirley Williams, has died at the age of 90.