Victoria Macdonald
Benefit reforms could push full-time carers into debt and food poverty
Full-time carers, who take a huge spending burden off government, are facing a £1bn cut in support over the next four years.
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Revealed: the personal data for sale on your old phone
Exclusive: Two of the UK’s largest pawn brokers are selling second-hand phones which still contain texts, photos, bank details and more, from their previous owners, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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Victoria Macdonald
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Immigration bill: terror suspects may lose passports
British terror suspects could be stripped of their citizenship even if it leaves them stateless – if an amendment is made to the immigration bill.
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Economy growing – but Britain not out of the woods
After years of lacklustre growth, the recovery appears to be taking off at last. Good news for Chancellor George Osborne, but even he is not celebrating yet.
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‘Goldilocks’ numbers show UK growth fastest since 2007
Today’s announcement of 0.7 per growth for the UK economy in the last quarter of 2013 is a “Goldilocks” number, says Economics Editor Faisal Islam – not too cold and not too hot.
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Sixth sense: young people and immigration
“We shouldn’t say you’re not allowed in, but then send all our old-age pensioners to Spain.” Channel 4 News spoke to sixth form students for their rarely heard take on the immigration debate.
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Over half of sickness benefit claims rejected – new figures
Almost a million people have been found fit to work by the Department of Work and Pensions over the last five years.
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Britons better off? Cameron says pay is rising
The Conservatives are taking on Labour in the “cost of living crisis” debate, saying that statistics show take-home pay has risen over the last year. But Labour disputes the figures.
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Don’t stand in way of fracking, Cameron tells EU
David Cameron issues a warning to the European Union that imposing “burdensome” regulations on shale gas exploration would deter investment and job creation.
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FactCheck: are you poorer than you were in 2010?
Ed Miliband says people are £1,600 a year worse off under David Cameron. The prime minister says Labour are only telling half the story. Time for a FactCheck.
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Davos: creating the impression of business being done
The powerful attending the World Economic Forum in Davos must create the impression of action. What they will not do, writes Andrew Simms, is change the system to meet the needs of society.
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Miliband: consumers ‘to help improve uncompetitive markets’
Consumer groups will be given a greater role in identifying and fixing “broken markets” under plans set out by Ed Miliband for a shake-up of the way competition across the business world is regulated.
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Italian MP ‘blacks up’ in anti-immigration rant
A controversial Italian MP smears his face with black greasepaint in an attack against migrants claiming state benefits.
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FactCheck: bankers’ bonuses
A spot of banker bashing from Ed Miliband and a carefully-worded promise from the Prime Minister to cap pay at RBS. What does it all mean?
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French oil giant Total joins shale rush in Britain
Oil giant Total invests in fracking exploration in the UK, by taking a share in a licence in the Midlands currently operated by a US firm.
