Search results for ‘Mark Greaves’
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Pension annuities market needs ‘urgent reform’
A financial watchdog is calling for the urgent reform of the annuities market to prevent “millions of pensioners from losing out”.
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A trip through the flooded Thames towns
Mark Greaves takes a trip along the flooded Thames in Surrey armed with a smartphone capturing water levels reaching their highest point in 30 years.
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Abandoned in Surrey – how one flooded street is coping
“We’re all desperate. We’re all really, really scared”: in one flooded street in Egham, all 70 houses have been flooded, and residents are terrified of looting.
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Best of the Booker: which book should win?
Jim Crace’s Harvest is the bookmaker’s favourite to win the 2013 Man Booker prize – and we will find out who gets the £50,000 prize on Tuesday. But which book gets the Channel 4 News seal of approval?
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Cameron and Clegg back Miliband over Daily Mail ‘smear’
David Cameron and Nick Clegg defend Ed Miliband as the Labour leader hits back at the Daily Mail for depicting his late father as “the man who hated Britain”.
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Women’s Prize for Fiction: the Channel 4 News verdict
From missing mothers to murder, climate change to the Tudors: this year’s shortlist for what was the Orange Prize for fiction has been described as “staggeringly strong”. Channel 4 News takes a look.
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Pope Benedict XVI to step down
The Pope is to resign at the end of February, saying that he no longer has the “strength of mind and body” required to “adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me”.
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2012 Man Booker prize: the shortlist reviewed
As the Man Booker panel prepares to reveal who has won this year’s prize, Channel 4 News’s speed-reading reviewers give their verdict on the 2012 hopefuls.
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Orange prize shortlist: the Channel 4 News verdict
Ahead of the announcement of this year’s Orange prize winner, the Channel 4 News team gives its verdict on the wide-ranging and eminent shortlist.
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How readable are this year’s Booker Prize books?
This year’s Booker Prize chair courted controversy when she revealed her panel was looking for “readable” books. We asked members of the Channel 4 newsroom what they thought of the shortlist.
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Raising the living wage: will it work?
A US businessman’s efforts to cut the pay gap within his company backfire, while in the UK, the CBI warns a national living wage will be a ‘gamble’ is it possible to reach wage equality?
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‘Ride me’ bus advert sparks Twitter backlash
Bus adverts featuring topless models holding a placard saying ‘ride me all day for £3’ are being taken down following a storm of complaints on social media.
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Top bosses earn more in two days than most of us in a year
What cost of living crisis? That is the reality for Britain’s top bosses, who will have earned £27,000 in 2015 by the time they break for their tea and biscuits on Tuesday afternoon.
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Should we be concerned that Russia is imploding?
The Russian rouble plunges further as it hits new lows, despite an emergency hike in interest rates to 17 per cent. As Russia’s economy appears to be heading for free-fall, should we care?
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‘Cost of living crisis’ returns to haunt government
Unemployment continues to fall, but pay growth drops significantly – despite government hopes that the so-called “cost of living crisis” is coming to an end.