Face the Facts
Investigative series looking at consumer and social stories from the UK
Face the Facts - 02/01/2009
John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. He meets Loay Mohammed, an Iraqi interpreter whose life was threatened by insurgents because he worked for the British forces.
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Face the Facts - A Death Unnoticed
John Waite finds out about the funerals organised by councils for people who have nobody else to take care of their affairs.
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Face the Facts - Aid College
John Waite investigates the college which claims to train people in international development. It is alleged that students are working to keep clothes recycling companies going.
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Face the Facts - Beaten by the Bullies
John Waite investigates why all too often it is the victims of bullying, rather than the bullies themselves, who have to leave schools.
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Face the Facts - Bye Buy-to-Let
A property club, apparently set up to support buy-to-let investors, now stands accused of selling over-valued properties that could never attract the rental income promised.
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Face the Facts - Care workers
John Waite investigates the foreign migrants working in the UK care sector who are abused and exploited by the agencies and gangmasters that hire them.
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Face the Facts - Delayed Inquests
The grieving families waiting years for answers. John Waite investigates problems within coroners' courts and hears why delays to inquests could get even worse.
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Face the Facts - Fatal Inaction
When a convicted murderer threatens to kill his ex-girlfriend, why do police ignore her cries for help? John Waite investigates domestic murder and failure by the police to act.
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Face the Facts - Feeding Frenzy
John Waite investigates allegations that speculators are pushing up the price of food worldwide.
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Face the Facts - Fine Justice
John Waite investigates how some companies guilty of serious health and safety breaches go into administration and therefore avoid paying fines.
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Face the Facts - Fire Safety Disorder
As more firms are fined over fire safety failures, John Waite discovers the government has also broken its own laws, yet ministers and civil servants are safe from prosecution.
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Face the Facts - Forced Adoptions
John Waite investigates claims that children are being put up for adoption in order to meet government targets.
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Face the Facts - Fraud in France
A fraudster who swindled ex-pats in the Dordogne out of almost two million pounds has been allowed to go free despite being convicted by a French court.
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Face the Facts - Health and Safety Executive
John Waite reveals how some of the most serious workplace injuries are not being investigated.
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Face the Facts - High Rise - Low Safety
John Waite investigates the safety failures exposed in tower blocks following the deaths of six people in a high-rise fire in London.
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Face the Facts - Illegal Disclosure?
John Waite investigates claims that potential employers are using criminal record checks to obtain information to which they have no right of access.
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Face the Facts - Immigration Advice
How changes to legal aid payments have created a false economy and a failure of justice for both asylum seekers and taxpayers.
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Face the Facts - India's City of Tomorrow
Outside Mumbai, a city destined to be the size of Paris and billed as free India's first hill station is taking shape. But at what price to locals who've lived there for centuries?
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Face the Facts - Iraqi Interpreters
John Waite investigates the dangers faced by local interpreters who work for British and US forces in Iraq.
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Face the Facts - Islamophobia
To inform or inflame? Are distorted stories about Muslims in some British newspapers increasing tensions in communities across the UK? John Waite investigates.
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Face the Facts - Jobcentre Plus - Not Working
John Waite asks whether frontline job centre staff can offer the personal and professional service that is promised, when there are claims that they are badly stretched.
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Face the Facts - Licensing the Landlords
John Waite investigates how laws designed to raise the standard of living conditions in 'Bedsitland' are being undermined by unscrupulous landlords.
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Face the Facts - Losing out to Lehman's
John Waite reports on the investors shocked to discover that they had unknowingly bought into Lehman Brothers and now stand to lose their life savings following its collapse.
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Face the Facts - Money To Burn
John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. Millions of pounds of public money are being wasted on equipment and buildings for the fire service which are not being used.
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Face the Facts - New Deal for Communities
John Waite investigates allegations of waste and mismanagement in the government's New Deal for Communities initiative.
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Face the Facts - Park Homes
John Waite reports on the lot of those - usually elderly - who've opted for life on a mobile home park, only to find they are subject to the control of the park site owner.
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Face the Facts - Parking Services
John Waite investigates a company at the heart of efforts to clean up the image of the private parking industry.
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Face the Facts - Payment Holiday
John Waite investigates a payment processing company which refused to pass on money from customers who bought holidays online, hitting the balance sheets of struggling travel firms.
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Face the Facts - Shaky Foundations
The collapse of social housing maintenance company Connaught left 1600 people without work and creditor debt of 100 million pounds. We investigate the impact of its demise.
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Face the Facts - The Dyslexia Dilemma
John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. He investigates a controversial treatment that claims to have helped tens of thousands of people with learning difficulties.
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Face the Facts - The Long Wait for a Law
Why are we waiting so long for new laws to protect the vulnerable and elderly living in mobile homes from rogue owners? John Waite investigatives.
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Face the Facts - The Promised Land
John Waite investigates the business of selling small plots of land to investors with the promise of a huge profit, which assumes the land will one day get planning permission.
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Face the Facts - The Recruits
The jobseekers left thousands of pounds in debt and without the training they signed up for or the jobs they were promised. How did one of Britain's biggest banks get involved?
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Face the Facts - Trouble in Paradise
John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. British property owners in Goa fear they may lose their homes in a backlash against foreign investment in the Indian state.
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Face the Facts - University Waste
As universities face swingeing funding cuts which they say will lead to a fall in the number of student places and a rise in tuition fees, how well are they managing their money?
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