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National Archive papers released today show Margaret Thatcher was advised not to invest in Liverpool after riots in 1981 – as well as proving the Iron Lady’s tight grip on her home improvement budget.
As Channel 4 News asks you who you think changed the world the most in 2011, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman makes the case for a young fruit and vegetable seller from Tunisia.
As two Doctor Who episodes lost by the BBC are unearthed by a collector, a Doctor Who archivist tells Channel 4 News it is a find of “cultural significance”.
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This is a devastating portrait of the empires of men and the faith in them, gone in those terrifying minutes. All with the genuine camera-shakes, the screams or ‘Run!! Run!!’ From those who did – to those, caught in the lens that day, who did not.
“For as reliable an account as possible of what Shakespeare wrote, the First Folio is it – not just for scholars but for actors and directors,” says Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain.
The claim “Is the Prime Minister aware that in the last financial year, taxpayers paid over £113 million to trade unions in terms of paid staff time and direct grants?” Laurence Robertson, 30 November 2011 “I think the idea of full-time trade unionists, working in the public sector on trade union business rather than serving…
As the Bank of England Governor warns UK banks to build up their reserves the eurozone catastrophe talk is ratcheting up in the countdown to the European Council next Friday. Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports.
To hear Labour speak, you’d think there was a veritable stampede of women desperate to escape the clutches of David Cameron in exchange for the warm embrace of Ed Miliband. But are they right? FactCheck speaks to pollsters and asks Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts what women really want.
Five crewman of the Swanland cargo ship are still missing, after the vessel sank in the Irish Sea this morning. Emergency services, including Prince William, successfully rescued two of the crew.
A Northern Irish court is shown CCTV footage of the shooting of two British soldiers outside their army barracks in Antrim, during the trial of two men accused of their murder.
Police investigating one of the worst British motorway crashes in memory say a fireworks display at a nearby rugby club is the main line of inquiry.
Channel 4 News cameraman Stuart Webb has covered several wars around the world but says the destruction wreaked by the Japanese tsunami is far worse – even eight months after it happened.
A critical report by MPs says border officials have lost track of a population of asylum seekers and migrants the size of Cambridge.
The UK Border Agency has lost track of 124,000 asylum seekers and migrant applicants. But how easy is it to disappear without a trace in modern Britain? Channel 4 News investigates.
The government plans to sell Admiralty Arch in central London for up to £75m – part of a wider drive to get better value from its vast property estate, as Channel 4 News hears.