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HS2 cost ‘will double to £80bn’
Twice the cost and disruptive to half a million people. Two blows to the government’s flagship High Speed 2 rail link between Birmingham and London.
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After the earthquake: Christchurch’s new cardboard cathedral
A revolutionary cardboard cathedral opens in Christchurch, New Zealand, as a temporary replacement for the neo-Gothic building destroyed in the 2011 earthquake.
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Labour’s Chris Bryant backtracks in Tesco and Next row
Labour’s Chris Bryant MP is forced to back down on claims about Tesco and Next. But Channel 4 News speaks to foreign Tesco workers who say he might just have had a point.
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Calling from the car does not cause crashes: new research
Talking on your phone while driving does not cause more car accidents, according to new research from LSE and and Carnegie Mellon University. But the UK Transport Department disagrees.
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Key questions: why Thames Water wants £29 more from you
Millions of households face paying an extra £29 as Britain’s biggest water company says it has endured a “tough time” financially.
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Is Qatar too hot for the World Cup?
As FA Chairman Greg Dyke says it is too “dangerous” to hold the World Cup in the Doha heat, Channel 4 News examines if the competition should be moved, and looks at the hottest sports on earth.
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Nightmare island where traffickers imprison Burma’s Rohingya
Beaten, imprisoned and sold into slavery – Channel 4 News reveals the fate of Burma’s Muslim Rohingya refugees, who flee conflict only to end up in the clutches of brutal human traffickers.
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Forget trust: Iran’s nuclear policy needs practicality
We should take two unequivocal things from the Iranian president’s press conference on Tuesday on the nuclear issue: engagement and urgency – and the West appears inclined to agree.
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Great Train Robbery 50 years on: watch the video
Half a century after Britain’s infamous Great Train Robbery, labelled the “crime of the century”, Channel 4 News Picture Researcher Ian Searcey delves into the ITN archives to find the news report.
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The publishers and knights bankrolling Ukip – FactCheck
This week the senior Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom was at the centre of a racism row after he was filmed telling people he didn’t think £1 billion a month should go to “bongo bongo land”.
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Forget bongo bongo language – is Bloom right on aid?
Ukip’s Godfrey Bloom has promised not to repeat his remarks about “bongo bongo land”. But does he have a point about UK aid funding corruption and arms spending abroad? FactCheck investigates.
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Godfrey Bloom’s bongo blunder – and Farage is fishing
While a storm brews over a senior Ukip politician filmed complaining about British aid money being given to “bongo bongo land”, the party says its leader has gone fishing.
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Why has Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post?
Why has Amazon’s CEO, boss of the world’s biggest retailer, just bought a 120-year-old business losing £50m a year? And what will “Dread Pirate Bezos” do with the venerable newspaper?
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Katherine Weymouth: the woman behind the Post
With news that Jeff Bezos, founder of internet giant Amazon, is buying Washington Post, Matt Frei looks at the role of the newspaper’s publisher, Katharine Weymouth.
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Amazon founder Bezos buys Washington Post
Jeff Bezos, founder of internet giant Amazon, will soon become the owner of iconic US newspaper the Washington Post, in a move that has surprised many in the American capital.
