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Birmingham: DCLG tried to stop Clarke appointment
The DCLG objected to Michael Gove’s plan to pull in a former head of police counter terrorism operations to oversee an investigation into schools in Birmingham.
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A Tory council candidate has resigned from the party with immediate effect after posting anti-Islamic and homophobic comments on Twitter.
The DCLG objected to Michael Gove’s plan to pull in a former head of police counter terrorism operations to oversee an investigation into schools in Birmingham.
From the storm surge in December through the wettest January on record, Channel 4 News tracks the stormiest winter in memory which has left two people dead and thousands flooded and without power.
We’ve heard about the sandbag stealers and the communities abandoned. But what about the stars of the storm? Channel 4 News lifts the lid on the misery and seeks out the heroes of the floods.
It is quite natural, right and proper that in the immediacy of what is happening in the UK, from politicians down, it is helping people out with flooded homes that comes top priority.
David Cameron said “money is no object” when it comes to flood relief. How expensive might that end up for the government? And who is going to pay the most? FactCheck does the sums.
As a power cut hits flood-stricken Datchet, David Cameron promises that money is no object in tackling the crisis. But could its scale have been averted by spending more before now?
Fourteen new severe flood warnings are in place along the River Thames, as the Environment Agency chief blames Treasury funding rules for the failure to dredge rivers.
The waves continue to batter Britain and the political storm over the coalition’s flood defence strategy is still raging too. Is this government really spending more than the last?
After weeks of flooding, and with more rain predicted Sedgemoor district council in the Somerset Levels declares a major incident in a bid to get long-term help from central government.
The Conservatives are accused of suppressing a report that calls for two new garden cities to combat the housing shortage.
A green field in Northern Hertfordshire – a beautiful rural scene straight out of EM Forster? Or would it be made more beautiful by thousands of smiling happy families in shiny new homes?
There would be many who would be horrified to find themselves an advert for the government’s Troubled Families programme. But 40 year-old Lou is proud. I met her and heard her story.
As the government says it has turned around the lives of 22,000 “troubled families”, Channel 4 News asks if the right families are really being helped.
In terms of longevity, the ministers around the coalition cabinet table rival the record of the Heath government of the early 1970s.