Channel 4

Channel 4 is a free-to-air television network based in Leeds, UK, that serves the public. It was created to be the fourth television option for viewers in the UK, alongside the BBC's licence-funded channels, BBC One and BBC Two, and the commercial ITV network. The channel launched its broadcasts on 2 November 1982. While it mainly generates its own revenue, it is still publicly owned. Initially part of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), it is now run by Channel Four Television Corporation, which is a public corporation under the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. This organization was established in 1990 and became operational in 1993. In 2010, Channel 4 expanded its services to Wales, making it a channel available across the UK.

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Reform grapples with internal problems as chairman resigns

1 day ago | channel4.com | Paul McNamara

Reform UK might be pleased with their showing in the Hamilton by-election, but yet again the party is grappling with major internal problems after their chairman Zia Yusuf’s sudden resignation.
Zia Yusuf resigns as Reform UK chairman after less than a year

2 days ago | channel4.com | Gary Gibbon

Reform UK announced its chairman Zia Yusuf has quit after less than a year in the job. In a short statement on social media – he said that working to get a Reform government elected was no longer “a good use of my time”.
FactCheck: attacks on teachers reported by schools rise by a fifth, exclusive figures show

2 days ago | channel4.com | Claire Wilde

Reports of violent injuries suffered by school staff have risen by nearly a fifth in a year, FactCheck can exclusively reveal. Over 800 attacks left teachers and other staff with injuries so severe, they had to be reported to the safety regulator. They include fractures, open wounds and even sight loss. How many teachers are injured because of violence in schools? Workplace injuries above a certain threshold of seriousness must be reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Kidneys For Sale: Kenya’s Transplant Tourism

3 days ago | channel4.com | Jamal Osman

I’ve been to Kenya to investigate the murky world of transplant tourism and a black market that preys on the poor. Wealthy tourists travel here from across the world to receive illegal, but life-saving kidney transplants. The donors receive less than £2000 for donating their organs. It’s clear these men are not the ones benefiting financially from the deal – so who is? And who exactly are these organs going to?
UK steel industry to escape Trump’s higher rate tariffs

3 days ago | channel4.com | Helia Ebrahimi

This time next week, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves will be delivering the Government’s Spending review – the treasury’s decision on which departments get the funding they want and which ones lose out. Today in Manchester she was rolling the pitch with hints she’d had to turn down what she called “some good projects” to keep within her fiscal rules.
Thames Water faces uncertain future as investor pulls out

4 days ago | channel4.com | Helia Ebrahimi

There are new questions about the survival of Thames Water. Drowning in debt, the troubled company has been desperately seeking a new investor to bail it out. But today, its preferred rescuer – the US financial giant KKR – said it was pulling out of a deal to pump in £4 billion of new equity to help keep it afloat. It raises the spectre of the government having to temporarily nationalise the UK’s biggest water company.
Israel accused of second mass killing of Gazans seeking aid

4 days ago | channel4.com | Harry Fawcett

They went to Rafah, desperate for aid to feed their starving families, directed there by Israel. And for a third day, they came under fire. 27 killed today, after three yesterday and as many as 31 on Sunday. This, in addition to the dozens more people killed by air strikes across the Strip. The Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has opened four so-called ‘Safe Distribution Sites’ in Gaza. The latest shooting happened near a roundabout.
Russia and China are the real reason for Trump’s Greenland obsession

4 days ago | channel4.com | Kiran Moodley

A battle for the Arctic was being quietly fought by three of the world’s largest powers – Russia, China and the United States – but then Donald Trump returned to power and couldn’t stop talking about Greenland. It’s a fight for trade, critical natural resources and military dominance with the prize of ultimately controlling one of the harshest but most strategically important regions in the world.
Timeline: How Gaza aid attack which killed 31 people happened

5 days ago | channel4.com | Harry Fawcett

Health officials in Gaza say at least three more Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded near an aid distribution point operated by a US-backed group. At least 31 people were reportedly killed on Sunday as they tried to get food near the same site in Rafah. Survivors told the Medecins Sans Frontieres aid agency that they were shot from all sides by drones, helicopters, boats, tanks and Israeli soldiers. Israel’s military denied firing at people gathering to collect aid.
Is Starmer’s defence plan ‘fantasy economics’?

5 days ago | channel4.com | Gary Gibbon

We spoke to the Prime Minister during his trip to Glasgow and asked him about the scale of the threat the country now faces.