Can the Conservatives win back votes in the north?
The Tories are back in Manchester. Political Correspondent Michael Crick looks at the challenges facing David Cameron and his team ahead of tomorrow’s party conference.
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It is crisis governance with the entire American economy at stake. Republicans are threatening to shut down the US government at midnight tonight in a battle over Obama’s flagship healthcare law.
The Tories are back in Manchester. Political Correspondent Michael Crick looks at the challenges facing David Cameron and his team ahead of tomorrow’s party conference.
After further warnings about failures in the government’s rural broadband programme, Channel 4 News put Britain’s internet speed to the test. So how did your area fare?
Flooding, famine, drought and disease – the impact of climate change predicted in the IPCC scientists’ report could have a negative impact for millions of people in the poorest parts of the world.
Taxpayers are being “ripped off” by the rural broadband programme which is quashing competition by allowing BT a “monopoly”, MPs warn. How fast is your internet? Take the Channel 4 News test.
As Asda and Tesco apologise for selling “mental patient” and “psycho ward” outfits, mental health patients hit back online by tweeting pictures of themselves to challenge stereotypes.
In a letter to the “big six” power firms, Labour leader Ed Miliband warns energy companies not to oppose his plans for a price freeze amid claims that it could lead to blackouts.
A leading Yemeni human rights activist questioned by Gatwick airport anti-terror officers tells Channel 4 News he fears Britain is targeting people who oppose US drone wars.
Twenty years ago today the leader of the UK’s far-right skinhead movement, Ian Stuart Donaldson, died in a car crash in Derbyshire. Two decades after his death we look at his cult following.
A complex series of unanswered questions – Paul Mason looks at America’s sudden loss of diplomatic coherence and finds an uneasy Homeland.
Ed Miliband side-steps the issue of trade union reform at the Labour conference, but his bigger problem lies in a perception of his party as the “villains” of the economic piece.
Health groups welcome plans to turn doctors and nurses into “high-flying” managers under a new government scheme but warn that hospital wards mustn’t be left short-staffed.
Iran’s new president has taken to social media to underline his reforming credentials, retweeting news of the release of political prisoners, including the prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh.
Police tell the former undercover cop who claimed a ‘smear’ campaign against the family of Stephen Lawrence that he will not be given immunity from prosecution.
Access to public transport for disabled people is still unacceptably poor, despite the hoped-for Paralympic legacy, a committee of MPs warns.