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As the British high street emerges from 2011 a shadow of its former self, Channel 4 News looks at the brands gone bust, or hanging on by a thread, at the end of a difficult year.
Quite apart from the eurozone, David Cameron faces another small headache over the next few days, writes Michael Crick. Who should he pick as the new head of the civil service, to take over from Sir Gus O’Donnell at the end of this year?
As Kenya goes to war on al-Shabaab, defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones writes for Channel 4 News on Nairobi’s desperate efforts to contain Somalia’s troublesome militants.
An order granting anonymity to Sir Fred Goodwin is lifted at the High Court after a Peer revealed details of an injunction taken out by the former bank boss regarding an alleged extra-marital affair.
A row between the British Olympic Association and the Games organising committee threatened to blight UK preparations for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
As new evidence emerges about bomb disposal expert Olaf Schmid’s death, Sean Rayment, author of Bomb Hunters, writes about his time with the team in “one of the most dangerous places on earth”.
It was when Vince Cable slouched into Number 10 wearing Twickenham’s version of John Wayne’s Stetson that you realised he was in trouble. Peter McHugh writes on the new Cablegate.
Jon Snow
I spent Sunday in the Solent on a boat sailed by my cousin Peter. A good wind in our sails, choppy seas, and glorious unbroken sunshine as we sped past the glistening white Needles. There was hardly another boat in sight. I wondered why, and suddenly remembered the Men’s Final at Wimbledon was on. Must…