Channel 4 News

1 day 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).

2 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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 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.