Last night, Channel 4 News aired a short film I've spent the last five months putting together about Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, or FASD. This is a range of lifelong disabilities that can occur when a mother drinks while their child is in the womb.

The film...

President Barack Obama and vice president Joe Biden will announce today a package of gun control measures in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre. But even with greater bipartisan support than previous reforming administrations have enjoyed, Obama has his work cut out pushing legislation through. He is taking on...

This week, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), the independent body set up to settle disputes between consumers and financial service providers, made a landmark decision by upholding complaints that banks sold complex swaps interest rate products to small businesses despite the fact that owners did not need them or understand...

This weekend, in an interview with the Daily Mail, David Cameron announced he was considering cutting housing benefit for the under-25s. After a week where high earning tax avoiders have been in the spotlight, this is an attempt at distracting voters from the real culprits of Britain's financial mess and...

Last week, Hackney Mayor Jules Pipe announced the council had won a £5.3 million slice of the Government's post-riots Regeneration Fund, a large slab of which he would be using to create a designer brands shopping centre. But who, in a borough where one in five people receives housing benefit,...

This weekend is the semi-final of the X Factor, and while there's one contestant standing head and shoulders above the others, if I were a betting lady, I'd put money on Misha B being in the bottom two again. Britain, it seems, has a problem voting for the best act,...