Faisal Islam
These GDP figures are terrible news for the coalition
In the end, it wasn’t marginal. This morning GDP figures show Britain clearly back in recession, the dreaded double dip, with GDP in key one at -0.2 per cent.
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Who will fund the UK’s energy plans?
The government says putting nuclear power at the core of the UK’s draft energy bill will cost consumers an extra £100 per year. But what if the nuclear industry refuses to build new plants here?
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Merkel: Fiscal compact is non-negotiable
The German chancellor vows to work with France’s new socialist president-elect Francois Hollande but insists the fiscal compact that commits eurozone governments to austerity is non-negotiable.
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FactCheck: Are Eastern Europeans to blame for social housing shortages?
Is UKIP’s Nigel Farage right about immigrants snapping up all the social housing? “All you have to do now if you come from Eastern Europe, all you have to do is to get a national insurance number – which you can get easily within a fortnight – and then you qualify automatically for social housing,” he said. FactCheck investigates.
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Britain back in recession
Chancellor George Osborne tells Channel 4 News he does not ‘disguise or run away from’ the latest figures showing the UK is back in recession.
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Bee Gee Robin Gibb in coma with pneumonia
Bee Gees star Robin Gibb remains in a coma after contracting pneumonia in his battle against cancer.
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England’s young lions prepare for glory
Their predecessors may have flopped at international level, but Keme Nzerem discovers how the FA is making sure that England’s latest crop of talented footballers fulfil their potential.
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Snow forecast as temperatures plummet
Temperatures fall to -11C in parts of Britain as snow is forecast for the weekend, prompting councils to call for “public-spiritedness” among communities to help protect the most vulnerable.
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Cameron facing Tory eurosceptics’ ire
David Cameron is braced for a Tory eurosceptic backlash after dropping Britain’s opposition to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) being used to enforce a new fiscal compact for the eurozone.
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Havel honoured at funeral ceremony
World leaders join Czechs in an emotional tribute to the nation’s first democratically-elected president, Vaclav Havel, at a pomp-filled funeral ceremony.
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Vaclav Havel, hero of the Velvet Revolution, dies aged 75
The playwright and dissident who became the President of Czechoslovakia in 1989 was one of the architects of the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
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Cameron at crossroads after EU veto
As Conservative backbench MPs welcome David Cameron home from Brussels after his decision to veto EU treaty changes, is the euro actually any closer to being saved?
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UK goes solo as EU forges ahead
Have David Cameron’s actions in Europe isolated the UK politically? One German MEP tells Channel 4 News: “They’ve asked too much and got nothing.”
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Cameron vetoes EU treaty deal
David Cameron has refused to sign up to the EU treaty deal saying it is not in Britain’s interest, leaving Europe to agree reforms without the UK.
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Has realism replaced triumphalism ahead of Euro 2012?
As England find out who they will face in Euro 2012 football commentator John Anderson writes for Channel 4 News about what lies ahead for Fabio Capello and his team.
