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FactCheck: Lib Dems spin out of control on apprenticeships
With still over a year until the election, the party spin machines are already cranking up, with the Lib Dems lobbing a very dodgy delivery at Labour.
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FactCheck: does Labour’s youth jobs guarantee add up?
Labour wants to raid bankers’ bonuses to create jobs for young people. The Conservatives say the sums don’t add up.
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Pride and hardship: miners share memories of 1984 strike
In 1984 south Wales miners joined a nationwide strike. Andy Davies meets strike veterans taking part in an anniversary exhibition who, despite the outcome, have fond memories of the event.
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Why is government website carrying fake jobs?
The government’s Jobmatch website is carrying bogus vacancies from nine online recruitment agencies run by a Baptist deacon in Coventry, who makes money by encouraging visitors to post their CVs.
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FactCheck: Government still mired in dubious flood claims
The waves continue to batter Britain and the political storm over the coalition’s flood defence strategy is still raging too. Is this government really spending more than the last?
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English lessons for immigrants – too slow, too expensive
Should immigrants be forced to learn English? Somali-born reporter Jamal Osman’s struggle to understand our language saw him engaging with some unlikely allies to make his way in the UK.
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Generation rent: but why is it so easy to evict?
With more and more people in the UK renting property, Channel 4 News asks if rental laws should be changed to protect tenants from being evicted.
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Forced to dig their own graves: the brutality of North Korean labour camps
The international community has called on the secretive state to close its gulags, but now it seems they are expanding them.
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Central African Republic: ‘suffering beyond imagination’
Tit-for-tat killings, rape, refugees – the Central African Republic has been described as “on the brink of genocide”, so should the international community intervene?
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FactCheck: Scotland hands its economic future to England
Scotland’s first minister insists there is a “very, very powerful argument” for Scotland to retain use of sterling. FactCheck investigates.
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Sri Lanka: Cameron mixes diplomacy and strong-arm politics
In Sri Lanka’s Tamil north on day one of the Commonwealth conference, David Cameron tells Channel 4 News he wants to focus on the human rights issues that have dogged the run-up to the summit.
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Tory archives deleted: the speeches they’d rather we forgot
The Conservative party has been caught removing a decade of speeches from the internet, but thanks to the British Library’s archives we bring you the statements they may prefer were forgotten.
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Part of Fukushima plant secured by duct tape, worker claims
As Tepco opens up to the world about a dangerous operation coming up at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, we speak to a former worker who says his legs shook as he did his work.
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Will Grindr and Google Glass kill the map?
Humans have been making maps for at least 14,000 years, when one was scratched on a cave wall in Barcelona. But could new technology spell the end of this ancient tool?
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FactCheck: Does Europe bring each household £3,000?
Business lobbyists claim the EU benefits the average household to the tune of £3,000 a year. FactCheck investigates.
