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"You're selling us self-consciousness." Jameela Jamil explains why she thinks the Kardashians are "double agents for the patriarchy", in the latest Ways to Change the World podcast.
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"If the other three police officers who were standing around when George Floyd was murdered had thought about intervening like what we did, George Floyd would be alive today.". Patrick Hutchinson, who was pictured carrying a protestor to safety at violent demo says what happened.
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The British Army’s Household Division play Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect’ at Buckingham Palace on the day of the Queen of Soul’s funeral
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"I don't know if we have ever experienced this kind of global challenge to racism and to the consequences of slavery.". Angela Davis says anti-racism protests around the world are "a very exciting moment".
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“As far as I’m aware she does not have any degree in economics.”. “I was and I remain a professor of economics.”. This is what happened when a Brexit Party MEP questioned the expertise of Green MEP Molly Scott Cato over post-Brexit trade.
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🚨🚨Tonight at 7pm:🚨🚨. EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 News investigation reveals a huge Trump campaign data leak, exposing how 3.5 million Black Americans were listed as ‘Deterrence’ - to try to stop them voting in 2016. #DeterringDemocracy
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"It's been the greatest privilege of my life to bring you the news.". @jonsnowC4 signs off from Channel 4 News for the very last time after presenting the programme for 32 years.
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"Every generation pretends gang crime is a new problem.". Rapper and author Akala says the social indicators of violence have "remained identical for almost 200 years".
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Donald Trump says his letter from Kim Jong-un was “a very nice letter”. Eight minutes later, he says he hasn’t opened it yet.
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“I honestly feel that if this was a white person attacked by an Asian…it’d be all over the news.” Acid attack victim tells #c4news his story
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Instead of stating their body measurements, contestants in this beauty pageant listed statistics about violence against women in Peru.
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“Blame us. Blame Westminster. Do not blame Brussels for our own country's mistakes and do not be angry at us for telling you the truth. Be angry at the chancers who sold you a lie.”. @DavidLammy says that voters were misled during the 2016 EU referendum. #78DaysToBrexit
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On a personal journey across white America, writer Gary Younge came face to face with alt-right leader Richard Spencer @Channel4 Thurs 10pm
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Human rights investigators have shared new information with Channel 4 News that they say casts doubt on some aspects of Israel’s account of the Gaza hospital explosion. @alextomo reports.
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"People have made me look white in so many of the magazines and campaigns I've shot for. it hurts my feelings.". Jameela Jamil says cultural pressures to look a certain way led to an eating disorder in her teens, in the latest Ways to Change the World podcast.
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These two ice sculptures - which represent the emergency on planet earth - will take the place of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage tonight after they declined our invitation to attend a party leaders' #ClimateDebate. Tune in at 7pm on 4 and here on Twitter:
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“You can’t cure killed babies with more dead babies. We need peace.”. The son of a missing Israeli peace activist says that his mother would be mortified by the situation in Gaza, and that vengeance is not a strategy.
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"Now we are friends." ."We are more than that . we are brothers.". They were prepared to kill each other on D-Day - now a British and a German soldier meet for the first time.
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Sir David Attenborough says it is "shameful" of the Prime Minister not to attend last night's climate change debate. "I don't know what else he had to do, but it would have to be very, very important to dodge this one.". Snow meets Attenborough. Tonight at 7pm on Channel 4.
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"Forcing people into hunger does not incentivise work.". @MhairiBlack gives her view on the government's changes to the benefits system.
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"We do consider both the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny to be essential workers". Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern reassures children ahead of Easter - but admits "it's a bit difficult at the moment for the bunny to perhaps get everywhere."
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“What disturbed people was that I was a man choosing to wear a dress in a serious way.”. Actor and performer Billy Porter discusses why he wore a dress to the Oscars.
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“Man comes out of a single parent home, educates himself and rises up and becomes the President of the United States, and you ask him for his birth certificate, because you can’t take your knee off our neck.”. Al Sharpton delivers the eulogy at the memorial for George Floyd.
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Nigel Farage funding secrets revealed - Channel 4 News investigation tonight at 7pm
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"My job isn't to judge him. my job is to care for him.". This Jewish doctor looked into the eyes of the man who killed 11 people in his own synagogue.
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"Don't boo, vote!" This is how Obama dealt with a pro-Trump protester who tried to disrupt his speech in support of Hillary Clinton
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“A translator always makes choices.”. Classicist Dr Emily Wilson is the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English - and she found that many men before her added sexist or misogynist terms that never existed in the original Greek.
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“I want to embrace him and tell him how much I love him.”. Evidence Joel, the mother of missing student Richard Okorogheye, tells @JackieLongc4 she has been overwhelmed by the support from the public, as she appeals for her son to come home.
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Hundreds of thousands of people take part in Women’s Marches across America and the world #womensmarch
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Exclusive: The Science Museum has signed a gagging clause in its agreement with Shell International to sponsor its climate change exhibition, agreeing to take care not to say anything that could damage the company’s reputation, Channel 4 News has learnt.
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Authorities are trying to work out why dozens of birds suddenly fell from the sky in Mexico.
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"What do you mean there's no press here, who are these people?". The father of a sick child tells Boris Johnson during a hospital visit that "the NHS has been destroyed. and now you come here for a press opportunity".
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The husband of the policeman who was murdered last week in Paris delivers an emotional eulogy at his memorial service
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"This is sometimes said by people who have no understanding of health at all. and when they say it, it's usually because they want to make a political point.". Prof. Chris Whitty responds to concerns that the NHS is prioritising Covid other serious health issues such as cancer.
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Taxi drivers, hotel workers and the emergency services have worked through the night to help those caught up in the Manchester attack
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"It's patently clear that some of the people who're involved in current politics…are borrowing some of the tactics of the 1920s and 1930s.". Yale History professor Timothy Snyder says some of today's politicians have learned propaganda techniques from twentieth century fascists.
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"Oh, Jeremy Corbyn, Oh Jeremy Corbyn". Glastonbury crowds cheer the Labour leader as he delivers a political speech.
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Israel-Gaza: 400,000 residents ordered to leave Khan Younis
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Fouad Abu Sabha was shot dead in the West Bank. Channel 4 News was at the scene moments after he was killed. Using our exclusive footage from the day, CCTV and eyewitness testimony, we piece together a minute-by-minute account of Fouad’s last moments. @mattfrei reports.
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.@DavidLammy becomes tearful when remembering Khadija Saye, a friend lost in the Grenfell Tower fire.
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"There was a girl with just her whole body covered in shrapnel. She was nine. I ended up having to change and clean these wounds with no anaesthetic.". Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a surgeon who recently returned from Gaza after 41 days, describes the conditions at Al-Shifa Hospital.
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EXCLUSIVE: We’ve gone undercover inside Nigel Farage’s Reform UK campaign in Clacton and found evidence of anti-migrant rhetoric, homophobia and one canvasser making racist and offensive remarks. As @DarshnaSoni reports.
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"Be sensible. What do you want? A full handbook to tell you what to do?". Plumber Ryan Price says the government guidance on returning to work is clear enough for the public.
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"That's an outrageous lie by Israel.". The ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu is "not anti-Semitic", says leading human rights lawyer and former UN war crimes judge Geoffrey Robertson KC.
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This is the moment a 102-year-old Holocaust survivor meets the nephew he never knew he had.
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"Once again they sweep their mess under the rug, for us young people - for their children - to clean up for them.". Greta Thunberg tells climate strikers in Bristol that "world leaders are behaving like children".
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"I think you would mess it all up for us, the way you have messed it all up for yourselves.". Heidi Nordby Lunde, president of Norway's European Movement, is sceptical about calls for the UK to strike a Norway-style deal with the EU.
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"I have never experienced anything like I experienced in Gaza. ". This doctor spent two weeks over Christmas working in the European Hospital in Khan Younis with the charity IDEALS, helping treat people with severely traumatic wounds. This is what Andy Ferguson saw.
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More than 180 disability activists were arrested yesterday protesting the latest Republican effort to repeal Obamacare
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"The only demonstrations that really work are disruptive ones.". @GaryLineker believes disruptive climate protesters could be considered "heroes" if the world takes action against the climate crisis, and says "it's very worrying" people are being arrested for protesting.
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.@BarackObama talks about the “utter loss of shame among political leaders”, who when they’re caught lying, “just double down and lie some more”
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"Is there literally nothing that can shame you?" - @AmbassadorPower's extraordinary attack on Syria, Russia and Iran over deaths in #Aleppo
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Channel 4 News investigation reveals how Arron Banks' pro-Brexit group Leave EU faked a migrant-crossing video and appeared to have staged photos of migrants attacking women in London. Watch the full report at 7pm on Channel 4.
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“Pure panic everywhere you look.”. Inside the Gaza siege - a resident’s eyewitness report by Yousef Hammash.
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This is @JeremyCorbyn through the decades - one of @UKLabour's most rebellious MPs whose views have remained largely unchanged in 30 years
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“I didn’t say anything about Turkey in the referendum.”. Boris Johnson denies making claims about Turkey entering the EU during the Vote Leave campaign - even though Channel 4 News’ @FactCheck has found evidence to the contrary.
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President Donald Trump is corrected by NBC reporter after falsely claiming he had the biggest electoral margin since President Reagan.
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“Racism is being aware . and not doing anything about it.”. Transgender model Munroe Bergdorf says racism is systemic in modern society.
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'It's my generation that's caused all this trouble, so here I am.'. This 91-year-old protester was arrested halfway through an interview with @AyshahTull, after he joined in on the Extinction Rebellion blockade in Dover.
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"They're not asylum shoppers they're asylum seekers. That's not true.". @krishgm challenges immigration minister Robert Jenrick after he claims "asylum shoppers" should seek sanctuary in the first safe country they reach under the "Refugee Convention".
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"That's libellous, you can't put this online, my friend.”. Brexit Party MEP Alexandra Phillips denies working for Cambridge Analytica in Kenya, speaking to @Channel4News. A few days later she admitted working for the firm's parent company.
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"Now we are friends." ."We are more than that . we are brothers.". They were prepared to kill each other on D-Day - now an English and German soldier meet for the first time.
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Forty-four days away from Brexit and they haven't got a clue.". A Honda worker accuses the government of "completely incompetent handling" of Brexit and "idiocy of epic proportions".
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"I may be First Minister of Scotland, but in this situation I feel powerless". Scotland's First Minister, Humza Yousaf, tells @KathrynSamsonC4 he feels "helpless" watching his in-laws who are trapped in Gaza.
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"This is the most frightening disease I've ever encountered in my career.". Richard Hatchett, the doctor leading efforts to find a vaccine for coronavirus, says it is much more lethal than normal flu.
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“I’m not attacking you, I’m just asking a simple question.”. @krishgm asks an Israeli spokesman whether the government will apologise to the families of seven people killed in a @WCKitchen aid convoy, amid reports of repeated strikes on aid agencies.
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“The drones would come down and pick off civilians – children.”.A former NHS surgeon, Nizam Mamode, who spent a month working in Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, broke down while testifying about children in Gaza being shot by drones.
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This is the stunning and moving art of Khadija Saye. On the brink of great success, she is missing presumed dead in the Grenfell Tower fire.
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“The NHS is something to be defended with hammers, rakes and bricks if necessary”. @robdelaney tells @krishgm about how valuable the NHS was for his two-year-old son Henry who died of cancer.
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"People have died because of austerity, and you’ve got the cheek to come here and tell us austerity's over and it's all good now.". That's what one woman told Boris Johnson during a visit to Doncaster, but he said his government was putting more money into public services.
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“You must be furious with whoever signed up to a deal this bad?”. Boris Johnson wants to make reforms to the Northern Ireland Protocol, @PGMcNamara asks the prime minister why he signed it in the first place?
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“Brexit was a travesty and people are waking up to that now.”. Blur frontman Damon Albarn tells @MinnieStephC4 Brexit has been “a disaster for younger musicians”, saying it's now more expensive for them to tour in Europe.
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Theresa May promised again and again that if she lost six seats, Jeremy Corbyn would be PM. Last night she lost at least 12.
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Police in Lahore break up a protest by Imran Khan supporters against alleged vote rigging in Pakistan's elections. @SecKermani was there ⬇️. Khan's opponents insist the election was free and fair, but his party has faced a harsh crackdown leading up to the vote.
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"This is life and death to the people of Ireland.". Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland Stephen Pound MP, discussing Brexit's impact on Northern Ireland and Ireland, says as soon as you've got "uniformed officers on that border", the "peace process is finished".
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"If it turned out the building you preside over. attracted more fixed penalty notices than any location or event in the history of lockdown - might that be a cause for resignation?". That was @GaryGibbonC4's question to Boris Johnson over lockdown parties at No 10.
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We can't get into Gaza, but Yousef Hammash lives there. He works for Norwegian Refugee Council and is a filmmaker - this is just some of his reporting on how children in Gaza have experienced the war #Gaza #Palestine #childreninGaza #Gazankids
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'The trick that makes men sad and women get rubbish jobs.' @arobertwebb on how he teaches his young children about 'gender conditioning'
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Allegations of widespread torture and sexual abuse have been reported by Palestinian detainees - held by Israeli forces. The Israeli army and prison service deny abuse systematic and say wrongdoing is being investigated. Watch part one of two. 1/3
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s election consultants secretly filmed offering to use Ukrainian sex workers to entrap politicians. #CambridgeAnalyticaUncovered.
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Many disabled people across the UK feel they are having to put their lives on hold to gain access to life-changing equipment in their homes. Ruben Reuter has been speaking to 15-year-old Finley about his struggle.
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". anyone out there going through depression I think for them to see that I went through it would help" @Stormzy1 tells @jasminedotiwala
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“The people who died and lost their homes, this happened to them because they are poor,” claims .@akalamusic who lives in the area #Grenfell
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Israel raids hospital in Northern Gaza, kills dozens with air strikes in the south. Warning: distressing content.
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“You cannot rant against the elite when you’re behaving like one of its members.”. @Nigel_Farage is challenged about taking a private plane overnight to get from London to Strasbourg. #72DaysToBrexit
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“We had everything we could ever wish for… now we probably don’t even have a future anymore.”. 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg says the planet’s future “was sold so that a small number of people could make unimaginable amounts of money”.
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"There were many serious, credible threats against Meghan Markle emanating from the far-right?". "Absolutely.". Former head of counter terrorism for the Met Police, Neil Basu, tells @cathynewman about the "disgusting and very real" threats Prince Harry and Meghan Markle faced.
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“We are going to be the kids you read about in textbooks. We are going to be the last mass shooting.”. This powerful speech on gun control by a student who survived the Florida shooting moved many who heard her to tears.
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Jon Snow has decided to step down as Channel 4 News presenter at the end of 2021. Here's a look back at a remarkable 32-year career presenting Channel 4 News from around the world, and 45 years as a journalist at ITN.
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This is the moment Catalonia declared independence from Spain.
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“At the time, we were liberated. Today, we must liberate ourselves… From hatred and hate speech, from xenophobia and contempt for democracy – for they are but the old evil in a new guise.”. The President of Germany marks 75 years since the end of the war in Europe.
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This is what happened when we asked Arron Banks if he would appear on Channel 4 News to answer questions over Brexit funds and claims of misleading MPs.
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"Do you honestly believe that Britain is better off outside of the EU?". That was the question Channel 4 News asked Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn six times.
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"Open your eyes - there is very real poverty out there.". UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston says there are people in the UK "living in destitution" and that "government people haven't been out in the field to see what the real circumstances are."
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“He loves me unconditionally, I count my blessings every day.”. The loving bond this man has with his dog helped take him off the streets – and even saved his life.
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“There’s too much poo literally in that lake.”. Comedian Lee Mack says water companies should not be paying out millions to shareholders when there’s sewage being discharged into places like Lake Windermere.
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