Alex Thomson , Chief Correspondent
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.
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’Sign of the times’ as Trump tells Christians they won’t need to vote again if he wins
We are joined by Laura Blumenfeld, who’s a Middle East Analyst at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, a former American ambassador who is now President of The Middle East Policy Council.
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What is the UK’s new publicly owned Great British Energy firm?
Sir Keir Starmer says he’s confident that household energy bills will come down, although he admitted it would “take time” – as he gave more details of the Government’s new publicly owned Great British Energy firm.
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E-Coli levels found to be 27 times higher than acceptable in Thames ahead of Henley regatta
Levels of E-Coli in the Thames have been found to be 27 times the acceptable quality – just days before the Henley international regatta.
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Post Office Scandal: Horizon engineer defends IT system
A former Fujitsu engineer who helped to design the flawed Horizon IT system has told the Post Office inquiry that it had been “working well”.
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UK oil and gas exploration in doubt after supreme court ruling
The future of new oil and gas projects in the UK has been thrown into doubt following a landmark decision by the Supreme Court.
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Are parties taking climate change seriously in the election?
It’s a time when the climate is facing ever increasing chaos. Extreme weather, record heat waves, but instead of becoming a high profile election issue, it’s barely featured in the campaign at all.
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SNP relaunches election campaign vowing to “put Scotland’s interests first”
The SNP has formally launched its election campaign at a rally in Glasgow.
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Labour pledge clean power across UK ‘within months’
This morning Sir Keir Starmer was campaigning in Scotland – where he promised that a Labour government would begin building clean power across the UK ‘within months’, through a new publicly owned energy company. And he insisted it would safeguard Scottish jobs for years to come.
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Why is the UK not exploiting technology for net zero trains?
About 70 percent of them are then moved by road, using cheaper, polluting diesel lorries – not the cleaner rail network. If the freight train is electric, the journey is virtually carbon free.
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Post Office Inquiry: Former CEO accused of ‘living in la la land’
‘There were so many forks in the road but you always took the wrong path, didn’t you’: the opening line from a lawyer representing subpostmasters at the Horizon Inquiry today.
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Post Office Inquiry: Chairman intervenes as public gallery scoffs
The former Post Office boss Paula Vennells has denied trying to influence the independent investigation into the Horizon IT scandal – as emails emerged revealing that she saw managing the media as an urgent priority. The inquiry chairman had to intervene during groans of derision from the public gallery.
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Post Office inquiry: former boss Vennells admits evidence was false
Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells has begun giving evidence at the Horizon inquiry.
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Ex-Post Office company secretary questioned over Horizon scandal
For years, she’s remained silent over what she knew about the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters. But tomorrow, the former head of the Post Office, Paula Vennells, will break that silence when she appears at the Horizon IT inquiry. Today, it was the turn of the company secretary, Alwen Lyons, who was at every board meeting…
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‘We’re still a long way from justice’, says infected blood scandal victim
We spoke to an infected blood scandal victim about what she had been through and what justice looks like to her.
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Company behind infected water outbreak are ‘incompetent’ says local MP
South West Water says most residents in the Brixham area of south Devon can now safely drink their tap water, after rigorous testing following a parasite outbreak.
