Cat Mcshane
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Channel 4 News Reveals What Life Is Like for Children Affected By Alcohol in the Womb

(1) Comments | Posted 18 February 2013 | (17:21)

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...

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It's Not Just Gun Owners Who Need to Down Their Weapons, But Their Children Too

(0) Comments | Posted 15 January 2013 | (16:27)

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...

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Banks Take Fresh Battering For Misselling Swaps to Small Businesses

(0) Comments | Posted 24 October 2012 | (15:02)

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...

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Another Blow to the Next Generation

(9) Comments | Posted 25 June 2012 | (09:13)

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...

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Hackney Regeneration Caters To The 1%

(1) Comments | Posted 24 January 2012 | (00:11)

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,...

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X Factor: Is Misha B Too Black to Win?

(99) Comments | Posted 1 December 2011 | (23:00)

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,...

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