Alex is the longest-serving on-screen journalist on C4 News since the channel began. In more than 25 years he's covered over 20 wars; led major investigations and continues to front the programme from around the world.
His journalism has won several BAFTA and EMMY awards; two New York Film and TV Awards and in 2011/12 he was named TV Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society.
He's written two books about the 1991 Gulf War and a travelogue about cycling across India.
He has been External Examiner at Cardiff and currently Bournemouth Schools of Journalism and is Honorary Fellow in Journalism at Falmouth School of Journalism.
We spoke to Shaun Spearing from the Avon Fire & Rescue Service, and Matt Lenny who is in charge of emergency planning at North Somerset Council.
In the South West, the red weather warning was in place – and that risk-to-life warning, encouraging people to stay at home, was heeded.
Leading figures from large corporations, including oil giant BP, are members of an influential but almost entirely unaccountable group advising the British Museum in secretive meetings, Channel 4 News can reveal.
How green is my valley? A key part in moving the UK to net zero is to plant trees on a massive scale. But the right trees, in the right places.
At least 20 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced from their homes after Madagascar was hit by a second powerful storm in two weeks.
A few months on, a Welsh coal mine has been given permission to expand and Channel 4 News has been told by the company that most of the coal will be used for traditional purposes.
Hunting is a multi-million pound industry. People pay handsomely to hunt grouse, pheasants and other game.
Even while we are still dealing with the Covid pandemic, scientists are already worrying about the next one, especially diseases which could leap from animals to humans.
Hunters will start bidding to shoot polar bears at the world’s most important trophy hunting convention being held in Las Vegas. The aim is to use some of the money raised to fight UK government plans to pass one of the world’s strictest bans on importing animal trophies.
A British woman has become the first known casualty after a tsunami hit the South Pacific Island of Tonga on Saturday triggered by the eruption of an undersea volcano.
The fallout from the Downing Street party row is causing an ever-widening rift between Conservatives North and South of the border.
Scotland’s First Minister has announced a slight easing of coronavirus regulations to allow crowds to attend outdoor sporting events from next Monday.
As the world’s climate heats up, many species are moving north for their survival, with rare bats now thriving in the south of England.
Farmers in England could get paid thousands of pounds for rewilding land or abandoning intensive farming for wildlife friendly land management.
In Scotland, from tomorrow people will be allowed to stop self-isolating after seven days instead of 10, provided they record two negative lateral flow tests – bringing the rules into line with the rest of the UK.