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£750 million cancer strategy aims to save 5,000 lives
The Government has launched its new cancer strategy with a promise that it will save 5,000 lives a year. At the heart of the strategy is early diagnosis and detection, writes Victoria Macdonald.
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BP ‘short cuts’ responsible for ‘avoidable’ oil spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could have been avoided and was partly caused by short cuts and cost-cutting measures by BP and other companies, a scathing inquiry finds.
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Joanna Yeates murder hunt: police appeal for missing sock
Detectives in Bristol reveal they are trying to trace a missing sock in the hunt for Joanna Yeates’s killer, as Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson questions apparent police “censorship” of the media.
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Number of flu cases up as fewer are vaccinated
Government data on flu in the UK shows 27 people have died of the illness since October, including 24 from swine flu. Doctors tell Channel 4 News more people should get vaccinated.
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Pakistan drone strikes: the CIA’s secret war
The number of drone strikes in Pakistan, believed to be led by the CIA, has doubled under the Obama administration in 2010 – leading to hundreds of deaths. Channel 4 News maps a secret war.
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Rise in hate crimes masks victims who do not dare to report
As a schoolgirl is convicted of manslaughter for killing a man in London in a homophobic attack, Channel 4 News obtains figures showing the rise in hate crimes reported in the UK.
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Sri Lanka ‘war crimes’ video: woman’s body identified
Channel 4 News can name a woman journalist as one of the victims in the Sri Lanka execution video along with damning new details of the date and location where the video was filmed.
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Afghanistan: huge rise in war wounded civilians
The number of war wounded civilians in southern Afghanistan has increased dramatically this year following the military troop surge, an exclusive Channel 4 News investigation has found.
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Somali Briton who helped free Chandlers speaks
Exclusive: In his first TV interview, former London minicab driver Dahir Abdullahi Kadiye describes his role in the release of the British yachting couple Paul and Rachel Chandler.
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Chandlers will be home ‘very soon’
The freed Somali hostages Paul and Rachel Chandler are expected to return home from Nairobi “very soon”. Katie Razzall gauges the reaction of the UK Somali community to their kidnapping, and release.
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Over half of public support benefit changes
More than half of the British public support the Coalition’s planned changes to the benefit system, an exclusive YouGov/Channel 4 News survey shows.
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BBC strike is sign of things to come
Today’s BBC strike is a “foretaste of things to come” as budget cuts hit the national broadcaster, former Channel 5 Chief Executive David Elstein tells Channel 4 News.
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Exclusive: council spending revealed ahead of cuts
Councils spend millions on sick days, redundancy payouts, and incentives to get staff to come to work including fruit baskets and M&S vouchers, a Channel 4 News investigation discovers.
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Council spending reveals money mismanagement
Exclusive: As Channel 4 News reveals the true scale of local authority spending, Siobhan Kennedy asks whether instead of cutting councils loose, the government should be reining them in.
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Iraq secret war files, 400,000 leaked
In the biggest official files leak in history nearly 400,000 Iraq war logs reveal the massive scale of civilian deaths and new torture allegations following an investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches.