The turn of the worm
I have been scratching my head to think of any other 87-year-old who could have held an audience of over 4,000 in his thrall for an hour and a half as Jimmy Carter did last night on London’s South Bank.
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It is a top tourist destination – but what the guidebooks don’t tell you is that Thailand’s roads are lethal. Now a group of mothers whose sons died in a bus crash are campaigning to change that.
The government and health unions reach agreement over reforms to NHS pensions, but a deal for civil servants is rejected.
David Cameron has vowed to pull “Britain’s underclass” back from the brink after this summer’s riots, pledging £448m to help local authorities turn around the lives of 120,000 of the country’s most troubled families. But here’s the catch – the £448m is only 40 per cent of the money that the government estimates local authorities need.
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…
Two hundred protesters have been arrested following a raid of the Occupy Wall Street protest camp by New York police, amid reports of a “media blackout”.
“As well as banishing rectum-burgers into the culinary history books, the last government also earmarked £150 million of targeted funding between 2008 and 2011 to provide kitchens and dining rooms in schools with inadequate facilities.”
“In Cornwall, there are estimated to be up to 1,350 families with multiple problems. How many are being offered intensive help? Just 14.”
As authorities in Bangkok attempt to defend Thailand’s capital from severe flooding, Channel 4 News Asia Correspondent John Sparks reports from north of the city where swathes of land are inundated.
As an interim report blasts the blurring of the line between ministers’ public and personal interests, campaigners tell Channel 4 News the government must deliver on promises to regulate lobbying.
I have been scratching my head to think of any other 87-year-old who could have held an audience of over 4,000 in his thrall for an hour and a half as Jimmy Carter did last night on London’s South Bank.
Labour MPs quiz Defence Secretary Liam Fox about his friendship with a man who allegedly claims to be one of his advisers and has visited him at the Ministry of Defence on many occasions.
A leading public health doctor tells Channel 4 News that private sector “sharks are circling around the NHS” hoping to make profits from the government’s health reforms.
The government is setting up a £250m fund to help local authorities in England switch from fortnightly to weekly bin rounds. But there are fears recycling rates could be hit, Channel 4 News hears.
Only 60 babies were adopted in England last year, new statistics show. But the head of a top adoption charity, speaking to Channel 4 News, advises caution over the figures.
Health charities condemn the government for writing to some terminally ill people to tell them a benefit they receive will stop in six months.