Darshna Soni
Communities Editor at Channel 4 News
Journalist. Communities Editor at #C4News. Lending an ear and giving a voice to communities across the UK. DM me if you’ve got a story to tell.
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3 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Darshna Soni
Last December this programme reported claims by a former chief inspector that senior officers had failed to act on widespread racism within West Midlands Police. In response, Richard Cooke who chaired the West Midlands branch of the Police Federation, took to social media denouncing her criticisms as “nonsense”.
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1 month ago |
channel4.com | Darshna Soni
The number of people claiming asylum in the UK hit a record high last year of more than 108,000. But new Home Office figures show that overall migration levels are down, because of a reduction in work and student visas. And that could leave the health and care sector struggling to fill vacancies.
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1 month ago |
channel4.com | Darshna Soni
For many of those who’ve been housed in hotels by the Home Office, being granted refugee status and allowed to remain in this country is just the start of a new set of problems. Figures due out tomorrow are expected to show a rise in homelessness among refugees who are struggling with having to find a job, a home and a bank account within days.
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2 months ago |
channel4.com | Darshna Soni
It was a time of high racial tension – when a town in the West Midlands even elected an MP who espoused segregation. That was 60 years ago – and in an extraordinary moment of history, the US civil rights campaigner Malcolm X was so disturbed by the reports – he traveled to Smethwick in the Black Country to see the situation for himself. Days later, he was shot dead after he returned to the United States. Our communities editor Darshna Soni has been to see how Smethwick is marking that day.
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2 months ago |
channel4.com | Darshna Soni
A new report by the charity Freedom from Torture, shared exclusively with Channel 4 News, has found that a number of Universities are enrolling students onto postgraduate policing and security courses even when they come from countries with a long history of torture and human rights abuses.
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