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Back to SearchWhat’s Happening to Your Vet Bills?
Pet ownership has rocketed since the covid pandemic, but so have vet prices. In fact, bills have increased by more than 60% in the last ten years. The Competition and Markets Authority is so concerne…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
The Tyre Scandal
Every year the UK produces around 50 million tyres for disposal. They’re supposed to be sent for recycling. Instead, big money is being made by diverting tyres to illegal and dangerous 'pyrolysis' pl…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Femicide
At least two women are murdered every week in the UK in a domestic abuse situation. Newspapers often call it a crime of passion. ‘He lost control’. But what if that’s not true? What if there was a bl…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Locked up: Woman held in mental health facility for 45 years
File on 4 Investigates tells the story of Kasibba – a woman locked up as a schoolgirl in a mental health hospital. She languished there for 45 years - despite not being mentally ill. She was finally …
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Generation K: Kids on Ketamine
File on 4 Investigates goes to Burnley in Lancashire to meet the young people and their families as they grapple with a ketamine epidemic. Used in human and veterinary medicine as an anaesthetic, exp…
Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Abramovich, the Yachts and the Tax Dodge
With the billions he made at the expense of Russian taxpayers, Roman Abramovich bought six luxury superyachts over the years. Among them were the 162-metre-long Eclipse, with swimming pools, helipads…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannabis Kids: The parents breaking the law to help their children with epilepsy
Tens of thousands of children and young people across the UK suffer from severe forms of epilepsy which are resistant to treatment. For those with intractable epilepsy the options for treatment are l…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Bad Medicine: Inside the hospital trust at centre of a police investigation
Michael Buchanan examines why the University Hospitals Sussex NHS trust, once considered one of England’s best, has now got the largest number of patients waiting over 18 months for treatment. On top…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
The abuse survivors calling on archbishop of York to resign
The BBC's religion editor Aleem Maqbool hears from sexual abuse victims who say they were let down by senior church leaders for decades. Priest David Tudor was allowed to continue working within the …
Published on 9 months ago
The International Student Scandal
Universities in the UK are facing a financial crisis, and with fears some may become bankrupt many institutions are making savings by cutting courses and staff numbers. Falling numbers of internation…
Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago