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A top-level leak reveals deep concerns over Treasury plans to limit total household benefits to £500 a week. Ministers fear the move could force tens of thousands of people out of their homes.

A leading public interest lawyer tells Channel 4 News the Government should expect more legal challenges against spending cuts, following a court battle over library closures in Gloucestershire.

The latest in a string of potential legal challenges to Government public spending cuts comes from the campaign group Disability Alliance.

Health Minister Paul Burstow says there are no easy answers to the funding of social care for the elderly.

Union leaders insist they have a “convincing” mandate for mass industrial action despite low turnouts for strike ballots.

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, reads to Channel 4 News her poem “A Cut Back”, capturing her anger at the decision to cut all public funding to the Poetry Book Society.

The poet laureate says the decision to cut all public funding to the Poetry Book Society is disastrous. But are these traditional institutions still neccessary or is the art simply evolving?

The care sector, like the banking system, is in sore need of regulation if situations like that of operator Southern Cross are to be avoided, Saga’s Dr Ros Altmann tells Channel 4 News.

Care home provider Southern Cross cuts its rent payments by a third as the firm struggles to keep its 750 residential homes open for business.

The policeman blinded in a shotgun attack by Raoul Moat makes a dramatic intervention into the debate on police cuts. Theresa May says she is doing everything she can to protect frontline jobs.

Britain’s economy has recovered by just 0.5 per cent at the start of 2011, undermined by a big drop in construction, and Labour has seized upon the results to criticise Chancellor George Osborne.

“Services do not need to close; that always has been and remains a political decision,” writes health expert Professor Allyson Pollock for Channel 4 News.

After warnings of the coming of a “perfect storm”, health expert Professor Colin Leys speak to Channel 4 News about the future of the NHS in a climate of cuts and reform.

Hospital waiting times are at a three year high and the percentage of patients waiting longer than four hours in accident and emergency rose sharply at the end of 2010, reports Victoria Macdonald.

A group of teenagers fighting cuts to youth funding in and around David Cameron’s constituency tell Channel 4 News they are being “ignored”. The youngsters want the Prime Minister to intervene.