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The specialist firearms officers responsible for shooting barrister Mark Saunders after a five hour standoff in London, have given evidence at his inquest as video of the standoff was released.
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There’s a dramatic Gulf developing between scientists and politicians about cannabis. Today in Birmingham, one of Britain’s most respected drugs researchers, Roger Pertwee, Professor of Neuropharmacology at the University of Aberdeen, is advocating the wholesale decriminalisation of cannabis. In a speech to the British Science association he is saying that present policy is causing more…
Vitamin B could slow the progress of dementia, a new study finds but scientists warn Channel 4 News patients should not start taking the vitamin immediately without consulting with their doctor.
Doctors continued to prescribe one of the world’s most popular drugs for the treatment of diabetes – despite having been warned two months ago that it can cause heart attacks.
As 33 miners face their second month trapped deep underground in Chile, relatives of the men tell Channel 4 News of their continued hope they will be rescued safely.
Detectives investigating the killing of an MI6 codes expert, Gareth Williams, are looking into his private life for information which may lead them to his killer.
As a new class of drug resistant superbugs has spread from the Indian sub-continent to the UK via “medical tourism” – a leading expert on infectious diseases tells Channel 4 News what it could mean.
The only supply route for the war in Afghanistan is perhaps the biggest moving target on earth, where troops, warlords and hired guns run the gauntlet daily, writes Channel 4 News’ Nick Paton Walsh, embedded with US troops – whose hands are tied under ‘courageous restraint’.
The only supply route for the war in Afghanistan is perhaps the biggest moving target on earth, writes Channel 4 News’s Nick Paton Walsh – embedded with US troops.
Exclusive: The GMC investigates actions of three doctors who treated baby Lucas Stachursky before he died last year from a massive overdose of a prescription drug, after a Channel 4 News report.
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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…
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At the climax of London Architecture Week, Jon Snow blogs on the award-winning redesign of New Horizon, a youth centre in King’s Cross, London.
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He was, according to my informant, in a car being driven by one Rev Al Miller – en route to the US Embassy in Kingston. Yes, the appropriately named Dudus Coke has been caught at a road block in Jamaica. Most had written him off suspecting he had fled to Latin America from whence –…
As Christopher “Dudas” Coke is captured in Jamaica, to face extradition to the US, Jon Snow asks is there another way to deal with the global menace of illegal durgs?
As the government announces a full public inquiry into Stafford hospital, the daughter of someone who died at the hospital tells Channel 4 News she hopes it will “rip apart” NHS secrecy.