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Where does the reasonableness leave Scotland’s referendum?
Having lost out on a “devo max” option, Scottish nationalists may not fancy their chances of securing independence in a referendum based on a single question.
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Having lost out on a “devo max” option, Scottish nationalists may not fancy their chances of securing independence in a referendum based on a single question.
As David Cameron and Alex Salmond sign an agreement for a referendum on Scottish independence, we ask: which side benefited most in the negotiations, and are the Scots likely to go it alone?
David Cameron and Alex Salmond are united in support for today’s deal on a Scottish independence referendum, with Scotland’s first minister hailing it as “a very substantial gain” for his country.
Thousands line the streets of Glasgow to welcome home Olympic and Paralympic heroes, including six-time gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy.
It has been an amazing party – but now the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games are over, and the nation is facing a hefty hangover. What next? Let Channel 4 News be your guide.
The Channel 4 News guide to the London 2012 Paralympic Games – how, where and who to watch, ahead of Wednesday’s opening ceremony.
The women’s 10km swim, around London’s Serpentine, may not carry the glamour of other swimming events. But Britain’s Keri-Anne Payne, who took silver in Beijing, is tipped to go one better in 2012.
Britain’s biggest gold medals haul since 1908 owes a lot to improved funding for Olympic sports. A former heptathlete tells Channel 4 News the difference lottery funding has made to athletics.
With 25 medals up for grabs, this Saturday is the most decorated day of the Games – and the first and last medals of the day will be awarded on the athletics track.
Mo Farah gave British distance running a much-needed boost with a double medal winning performance at the 2011 World Championships. He goes for gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m in London 2012.
Britain’s only reigning athletics Olympic champion will have to overcome the odds to retain her track and field title in London, but the Newham-raised athlete is no stranger to adversity.
Zoe Smith, the teenage weightlifter, breaks a British record in an impressive Olympic debut.
Two years before the 1980 Games, Scottish sprinter Alan Wells revealed to ITN that his ambition was to prove himself a “reasonable sprinter”. He went on to win gold and silver medals in Moscow.
Swimmer Sharron Davies had already been identified as a medal prospect for the 1980 Moscow Olympics when ITN went to meet her and her trainer at Crystal Palace in 1977.
At the 1964 Tokyo games, Mary Rand broke the world long jump record to win gold. But four years earlier, as post room worker Mary Bignall, she was just another Olympic hopeful.