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Brian Paddick's manifesto, which was released on Tuesday, includes a pledge to build 360,000 new homes over the next decade. Yesterday he claimed that overcrowding in the capital's homes has increased by 15 per cent since 2008. But is the problem as bad as Paddick says? Read
Last week we factchecked the claim that in 2010/11 there were 23,097 victims of child sex offences in England and Wales, or as the papers put it, one 'attack' every … Read
Europe
Is the European Union about to put its foot down over footwear in hair salons? That was the suggestion in one Daily Mail article yesterday, which reported that: "Hairdressers will … Read
The Government's Work Capability Assessments (WCA) - used to judge an Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimant's eligibility for the benefit - has proved controversial since it was introduced in … Read
Crime
Following the publication of Ken Livingstone's crime manifesto, critics have attacked his recent claim that murders in London have increased by eight per cent in the past year. Are they justified in their attacks? Read
The issue of housing costs is a topic that has kept Full Fact busy over the years. Most recently, we looked at whether private housing rents were rising or falling … Read
Was George Galloway the most expensive backbench MP, or claiming "zero, zero, literally zero" in allowances? Read
The launch of an RSA and Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning-backed academies commission was featured in this morning's Today programme, re-opening the argument about the Government's "academisation" policy. Over … Read
Following a series of Freedom of Information requests by the NSPCC, several newspapers reported that a child was sexually assaulted every 20 minutes in 2011. Did they report the figures accurately? Read
Tensions reportedly ran high at the LBC radio Mayoral hustings this week. But who got their facts straight when talking about police numbers? Read
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