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Lewisham named ‘least peaceful’ place in the UK
As Lewisham is named the most unsafe place in the country, a local councillor and friend of Stephen Lawrence says we need to focus on the young to beat crime.
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Austerity kids: what is it like growing up in Europe today?
As a UN team visits Greece to assess how austerity is hitting human rights, Channel 4 News wants your help to find out what impact the eurozone crisis is having on young people across Europe.
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MPs warn Osborne over mortgage guarantees
George Osborne’s plans to boost home ownership risk harming the housing market and leaving the treasury with a significant hole in its coffers, a powerful committee warns in a new report.
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A bruising week for George Osborne as IMF meets
A tricky week for George Osborne – rising unemployment, a second ratings agency downgrades the UK and the IMF cuts its forecast for the country’s growth this year ahead of its meeting he’s attending.
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Greece: Migrant strawberry pickers shot in ‘shameful’ attack
The Greek government promises “swift” punishment for an attack in which twenty-nine Bangladeshi strawberry pickers were shot and injured by foremen at the farm where they worked.
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Thatcher’s children: growing up in 1980s Britain
For entrepreneur Rachel Elnaugh, Margaret Thatcher’s premiership helped make Britain great again. But for writer Naseem Khan, life under the Iron Lady inspired antipathy and a sense of injustice.
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Just do it: Sheryl Sandberg’s feminist manifesto at work
Facebook boss Sheryl Sandberg – one of the world’s most powerful women – shares her secret of career success. Don’t hold back or sell yourself short, she says. Does her advice ring true?
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Thatcher’s pop legacy – protest songs or the charity single?
Margaret Thatcher spawned a wave of protest songs. But then came 1984’s Do They Know It’s Christmas which gave miners’ benefit records an air of axe-grinding and pettiness, writes Bob Stanley.
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UK children face ‘bleaker future’, Unicef report says
Britain is ranked as one of the bottom countries in the developed world for teenage pregnancy, youth unemployment and involvement in further education, in a new report from Unicef.
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FactCheck: the Thatcher myths
From snatching milk to destroying British industry, FactCheck busts some of the biggest myths of the Thatcher era.
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‘Economic miracle’ in Britain’s former coalfields?
Margaret Thatcher is often credited with reviving Britain’s ailing economy in the 1980s. But what has happened in the former coalfields since the mines closed?
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What Margaret Thatcher meant to you
Margaret Thatcher was one of the most divisive leaders of the 20th century and her death has been met with mixed emotions. How will the Iron Lady be remembered?
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Italian fascists CasaPound praise ‘normal Italian’ Di Canio
The controversy over Paolo Di Canio’s comments in support of fascism and Mussolini are by-products of a continuing campaign by Italy’s far-right to rehabilitate their image and re-write history.
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‘Little evidence’ for Romania and Bulgaria immigration boom
Panic over? Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta tells Channel 4 News the UK is not a “preferred destination” for Romanian emigrants as a report suggests fears of an UK immigration boom are misplaced.
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Exit David Miliband
David Miliband looked pained in 2010 after losing the Labour leadership to his brother Ed. Today, he cut an extraordinarily different figure.