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A year in the life of Whitehall’s Wikipedia warriors
Channel 4 News has uncovered edits made to Wikipedia from inside government offices on topics including Rolf Harris, Jean Charles de Menezes and Fireman Sam.
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Government hits back over Calais ‘blame game’
Downing Street insists the government vows to continue working closely with the French authorities after Labour demand compensation from France over the chaos at Calais.
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David Cameron warns migrant crisis will last all summer
Britain to send sniffer dogs and more fencing to Calais as the prime minister says disruption could last throughout the summer
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Calais migrant crisis: one dead as ‘thousands storm’ tunnel
A spokesperson for Eurotunnel said one migrant had died and “1,500 migrants tried to storm the tunnel” on Tuesday night.
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2,000 migrants tried to enter Channel Tunnel on Monday
Delays to services have been caused after 2,000 migrants attempted to gain entry to the Channel Tunnel terminal on Monday, Eurotunnel has said
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Crash victims may have been left for three days
Fears that a couple involved in a crash in which one man died may have lain in a car off the M9 near Stirling, central Scotland, for three days have sparked an independent investigation.
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Belgium bus crash: British school children on coach
A coach driver has been killed and his assistant seriously injured after a vehicle carrying pupils and staff from Brentwood School in Essex crashed in Belgium
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Calais: migrant scenes ‘totally unacceptable’ – Cameron
Scenes of migrants trying to jump on to UK-bound lorries in Calais in the midst of a strike by French ferry workers are branded “totally unacceptable” by David Cameron.
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Calais migrant camp battle between Sudanese and Eritreans
Hundreds of Sudanese and Eritrean migrants clashed overnight at a migrant camp in Calais, in the north of France. 21 people were wounded, of whom 14 were taken to hospital.
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‘Meteor’ streaks across skies of France and Austria
Dashcams record what appears to be a meteor streaking across the skies of Austria, France and Switzerland, glowing brightly before it disappears from view.
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Are driverless cars the future of travel? The key questions
The government is announcing three projects to test and promote driverless cars. But will they ever be significantly safer than vehicles driven by humans? And who is responsible if an accident occurs?
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Dramatic video shows Taiwan plane crash
Dramatic footage shows a Taiwanese airliner clip a motorway and crash into a river in Taipei shortly after take-off, killing at least 26 people.
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How 2014 unfolded – in tweets
In Britain, 2014 was the year of the floods, Ukraine saw a revolution, Scotland almost went indy and the deadly Ebola struck west Africa.
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Will a £15bn scheme revitalise England’s road network?
A tunnel passing Stonehenge is among dozens of new road schemes to be announced by the government, as part of £15bn of improvements to England’s roads.
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Hong Kong: last stand for the student protesters?
Pro-democracy supporters struck camp in Hong Kong 52 days ago and have built themselves a village. Bailiffs have turned up to help with the government’s new “removal strategy”.