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Regional jobs blog: Glasgow
Stuart Patrick from Glasgow Chamber of Commerce tells Channel 4 News that renewables and trade provide hope for jobs in the Scottish city.
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Thailand battles a dog-napping crime wave
Over the last five months, the Thai border police have made a series of spectacular animal seizures in the north east. Tens of thousands of dogs have been discovered, stuffed into ‘pig cages’, with ten or sometimes even fifteen animals packed into each one. Channel 4 News’ Asia correspondent John Sparks reports.
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US election ads: mining the pit of sleaze?
The fight for the Republican presidential nomination has become submerged in a negative advertising blitz. So who’s saying what – and with whose dollars?
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RBS chairman turns down £1.4m share bonus
One day after RBS chief executive Stephen Hester is awarded a £930,00 bonus, it emerges Sir Philip Hampton, the bank’s chairman, is to turn down a share-based bonus worth £1.4m.
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FactCheck: Are payday loans the cheapest option?
As wages are cut in real terms and the cost of living soars, Britons are turning to payday loans who hand out instant cash for often exorbitant rates of interest. The number of people taking out these so-called ‘payday’ loans quadrupled between 2008 and 2010, to 1.2 million. Are they the cheapest option?
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‘Proof’ government plans to privatise NHS?
Exclusive: GPs say they have firm evidence now that the government is planning to privatise the National Health Service as part of its reforms.
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Fighting to fish in Japan’s tsunami seas
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson takes to the seas with Japan’s fishermen whose livelihoods were devastated by the tsunami.
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Health reform protesters block Westminster Bridge
As trade unionists, anti-cuts campaigners and health workers demonstrate in protest at planned health reforms, Lord Owen warns that the NHS could be unrecognisable in 10 years’ time.
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Turtles lured to UK by jellyfish feast
Endangered leatherback turtles are arriving in British waters to feed on a rising number of jellyfish as Science Correspondent Tom Clarke reports.
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FactCheck: How’s that riots crackdown going?
“There’s currently no legal mechanism for forcing offenders to agree to meet their victims. If the rioters don’t feel like a face-to-face showdown then, as things stand, they won’t have to do it.”
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Mogadishu: the 'antidote' to boredom
We have four vehicles in our convoy, lumbering giants mounted with machine guns fore and aft. And so we trundle out of the airport, feeling like sitting ducks, through the wrecked city of Mogadishu, failed capital of a notoriously failed state.
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Lloyds axe 15,000 jobs in plan to save £1.5bn
Lloyds Banking Group will cut 15,000 more jobs by 2014 as part of new Chief Executive Antonio Horta-Osorio’s strategic review.
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Libyan campaign ‘is costing Britain millions a day’
A defence expert tells Channel 4 News airstrikes against Colonel Gaddafi are already costing millions a day – and the consequences of ground forces getting sucked in ‘don’t bear thinking about’.
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Libya: axed Harriers ‘could have saved lives’
The Libyan conflict has exposed the gaping hole left by Government cuts to Britain’s sea-based air power, former senior Navy officers tell Channel 4 News.
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Japan disaster: Kesennuma hit by quake, tsunami and fire
Boats litter the road after slamming into Kesennuma, one of the worst-hit places in Japan’s quake disaster. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reports on the desolation left there by the tsunami.