Search results for ‘public service cuts’
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Library campaigners lose high court challenge
Campaigners in Brent, north London, lose their high court bid to save six libraries from closure as Mr Justice Ouseley dismisses their application for judicial review.
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Health reform protesters block Westminster Bridge
As trade unionists, anti-cuts campaigners and health workers demonstrate in protest at planned health reforms, Lord Owen warns that the NHS could be unrecognisable in 10 years’ time.
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Sharks circling the NHS – doctor warns
A leading public health doctor tells Channel 4 News that private sector “sharks are circling around the NHS” hoping to make profits from the government’s health reforms.
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Cameron promises homes and jobs
David Cameron promises 200,000 new homes and up to 400,000 jobs as a Channel 4 News/YouGov poll reveals the public sees the prime minister as more right-wing than they did before the recession.
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Government cash for weekly bin collections
The government is setting up a £250m fund to help local authorities in England switch from fortnightly to weekly bin rounds. But there are fears recycling rates could be hit, Channel 4 News hears.
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Unions call for civil disobedience
Channel 4 News learns union bosses are calling for a campaign of civil disobedience and sit-ins as well as strikes over the spending cuts, with one leader saying he is “prepared to go to jail”.
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Is Ed Balls the problem or the solution?
The question Ed Miliband and the Labour shadow cabinet has to work out at this conference is as much about Ed Balls as anything else. Is he the economic mastermind or the electoral liability? His conference speech at Labour tried to acknowledge that he and his boss Gordon Brown made mistakes – but not the ones the government tries to pin on them. As they try to regain economic credibility they must decide whether it can be done by Ed Balls.
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Labour unveils plans to heal economy
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls says he would use any profit from selling the state’s share in banks to pay off the national debt.
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Will a Greece default save the euro?
As it runs out of money, Greece holds crisis talks with the IMF and private banks, while a massive new bailout package to stabilise the eurozone is being considered.
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PFI: unaffordable or ‘the only game in town’?
Are Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes worth the money? An expert picks apart the complex funding model for building schools, hospitals and more, for Channel 4 News.
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SNP to reveal Scottish budget
As Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney prepares to reveal the SNP’s first budget since its massive election victory, opposition leaders say the party must prove it can afford its pledges.
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Growing number of unions to ballot on strike action
Unions representing over 3 million workers in the public and private sectors across the UK are balloting their members on a nationwide “day of action” on November 30.
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Biggest unemployment rise for two years
Unemployment is rising at its fastest level for two years, as the number of young people without jobs surges.
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Jailed rioters targeted by existing inmates
Jailed rioters are being targeted by existing inmates because prison conditions have been made worse by the influx of prisoners following last month’s civil unrest, Channel 4 News has learned.
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Miliband heckled as major strikes loom
Ed Miliband is heckled at the TUC conference where, as Economics Editor Faisal Islam writes, Britain’s biggest unions are poised to call for a “general strike” over public sector pensions.
