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The BBC has said it will make £150 million less in 2016/17 from licence fees than it had expected in 2011, which it attributes to an 'iPlayer loophole'. Read
We looked into whether this was Team GB's best Olympics ever, how much funding it gets, and which sports UK athletes have won the most medals in. Read
Andy Murray is the first to win two Olympic gold medals in singles tennis, but other men and women have won multiple gold medals. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
There's three shortlisted projects for airport expansion. MPs suggested that delaying the decision costs the UK between £2 million and £7 million a day. Read
Exact figures are hard to come by, but it seems correct to say that there are 10 times as many refugees in Lebanon as in the UK. Read
It's correct that there have been almost as many armed forces deaths on training as in Iraq, although not all could necessarily have been prevented. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A senior tax official says that an old quote of his that taxation is "legalised extortion" should be seen in context. Here's the context. Read
Last year 53 cyclists were killed or seriously injured in accidents which were contributed to by poor road surfaces, according to attending police officers. Read
In 2015 the UN got half the money it said it needed to deal with the crisis in Syria. Of that money, half was from the US, UK, and Germany. Read
Immigration
A government claim about the number of Muslim women with little or no English is backed up by Office for National Statistics analysis of the 2011 census. Read
