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After 105 days of unanswered emails, complaints to the PCC, long waits for responses, several articles and slow progress in negotiations, the Sun and Daily Mail newspapers have finally corrected … Read
In certain parts of England, how you're cared for in your old age depends on which side of the street you live on. Many people are shocked to discover that … Read
Full Fact's Freedom of Information requests put Welfare Reform Minister's claim in context. Read
How does Britain rank for income taxation in the world? A network of tax professionals delivers a negative appraisal. Full Fact investigates. Read
The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has rejected Full Fact's complaint into the Daily Mail's coverage of figures from the August riots last year. It was the same coverage criticised by … Read
Discrepant reports and data on the number of pubs, and the price of beer often make it very difficult to assess whether watering holes across the country are fairing well, or saying farewell. Read
This week's surprise announcement from Energy Minister John Hayes, reported in the Daily Mail and the Telegraph, that the Government wouldn't give the green light to any more onshore wind … Read
Today the Department for Transport (DfT) published routine quarterly estimates for the number of road casualties in Great Britain. They revealed that in the year leading up to June 2012, … Read
"Lucrative: Now worth more than £300m a year, Halloween is now Britain's third most lucrative festival after Christmas and Easter." The Daily Mail, October 31, 2012 Today we learnt that … Read
In 2010 the Liberal Democrats pledged to stop holding children in immigration detention centres. However Nick Clegg's claims to have achieved this from within the Coalition continue to be criticised by some. Do the figures allow us to say who's right? Read
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