Search results for ‘stephen hester’
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FactCheck: can Ukip win anywhere now?
If Ukip can win in Rochester, they can win anywhere, according to Nigel Farage. Could the rest of England turn purple next year?
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Anna Wintour joins hotel boycott over Sharia anti-gay laws
The editor of US Vogue is refusing to stay at Le Meurice hotel during Paris Fashion Week in protest against its owner, the Sultan of Brunei, for implementing anti-gay laws in his native country.
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Gay, pregnant and unmarried, or like a drink? Don't go to Brunei
Brunei may be small – but it is earning an over-sized reputation for brutality as it introduces Sharia law punishments for offences including pregnancy outside marriage and homosexual acts.
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Why do young Brits feel disengaged from the EU?
Ahead of the European elections in May, a new survey reveals that young people in the UK feel disengaged from the European Union. But why are we so uninterested?
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Freezing urine, and five other polar vortex experiments
It may be dangerously cold in the American Midwest, but that hasn’t stopped people venturing out to see how freezing temperatures can affect everything from bubbles to urine.
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FactCheck: are free schools failing to open in areas of need?
Has the government’s revolutionary free schools movement failed by opening schools where there is already a surplus of places? FactCheck swots up on the facts.
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4G expands, but are we ready for ‘super-fast’ mobiles?
Mobile phone company EE launched it’s 4G data services ten months ago. Now its rivals O2 and Vodafone are offering their own services, but is 4G really all its cracked up to be?
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Rail protests over 4.1 per cent train fare hike
With train fares set to rise by an average 4.1 per cent in January, campaigners say the rise will be the sixth time in seven years that rail fares have outstripped wages.
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#c4newspopup: we’re coming to you
Channel 4 News “pops up” across the UK from Cornwall to Edinburgh. We want to hear your stories – get in touch. #c4newspopup
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Are British soldiers joining the English Defence League?
Before the murder of Lee Rigby the English Defence League was dying. Now its leaders claim serving soldiers are joining the anti-Islamist group.
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Ex-chief constable Norman Bettison referred to IPCC
The Independent Police Complaints Commission begins assessing documents regarding allegations that a former chief constable may have tried to discredit a key witness to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry.
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Have reckless bankers been jailed in other countries?
Five years after the financial crisis, a parliamentary commission is recommending that bankers guilty of “reckless misconduct ” could be jailed. What has happened across the world since then?
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MoD faces legal action over dead soldiers’ human rights
The families of British soldiers killed in Iraq win a landmark legal victory to pursue damages from the government for failing to protect the human rights of their loved ones.
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FactCheck: the terror plots that failed
MI5 are “not in the dock” over the Woolwich killing – but should they be? FactCheck looks at the UK’s track record on foiling terror plots before they happen.
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Joss Stone ‘targeted because of royal links’
Two men accused of plotting to rob and murder pop singer Joss Stone may have been motivated by her connections with the royal family, a court hears.
