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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Can UK’s abandoned mines be used to build a greener future?
It powered the industrial revolution and heated millions of homes – but coal has also fuelled the climate crisis – while also leaving behind a vast network of flooded, unused mines.
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Israeli police investigating attack on Gaza aid convoy
Israeli police say they are investigating after a group of right wing settlers ransacked a convoy of aid trucks bound for Gaza.
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Northern Ireland police carried out ‘industrial level spying’ on journalists high court hears
There’s a well established convention that journalists never reveal their sources.
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Post Office Scandal: what did top executive know?
She’s been described as the Post Office executive who knew more about the Horizon IT scandal than anybody else. Angela van den Bogerd personally oversaw complaints about Horizon problems since 2010 and was part of a mediation scheme that was supposed to get to the bottom of why so many subpostmasters were being accused of…
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Paula Vennells blamed ‘temptation’ of money in tills not IT system, Post Office inquiry hears
Former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells suggested “temptation” for subpostmasters to borrow money from tills was a problem, not the faulty Horizon IT system, the inquiry into the scandal has heard.
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75 years of National Parks: Only 6% of land is in good health for nature
They’re supposed to be Britain’s most precious places, but as our national parks turn 75, there are warnings that many of them are, sadly, in crisis.
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Post Office Inquiry: Alan Bates delivers brutal assessment of bosses
Today was the moment for the real Alan Bates to stand up, as he was sworn in at the Horizon inquiry, delivering a brutal assessment of the Post Office bosses who hounded him and his colleagues, then tried to cover it up.
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Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells refuses to comment on whether she misled parliament
Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells refused to comment today when questioned by Channel 4 News if she lied to MPs.
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MPs explore sanctions for former Post Office CEO after C4 News report
MPs are set to explore ‘all options on the table’ to sanction the former Post Office CEO Paula Venells for potentially misleading Parliament.
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More secret tapes prove Post Office boss briefed on system backdoor
More shocking revelations from secret recordings obtained by Channel 4 News show that Post Office boss Paula Vennells was briefed about allegations of a “covert operations teams” – and that it could remotely alter sub-postmasters accounts from Fujitsu’s HQ without them knowing.
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Covert recordings prove Post Office covered up scandal for years
When the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal resumes next month, Post Office executives will again be questioned over what they knew, when, and what they did about it.
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Hunting: Warwickshire Police accused of “cover up” by MP
An MP has accused Warwickshire Police of a ‘cover up’ over a secret deal they made with the Warwickshire Hunt.
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Moscow attack means ‘new wave of mobilisation’ likely in Russia – Ukrainian MP
What impact could the Moscow concert hall attack have on Ukraine? We spoke to the Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko and asked what the country now expects to happen.
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Backlash over plans to chop down 11 trees in Ripon
When the Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall was hacked down last September, apparently in an act of vandalism, it led to expressions of anger and sadness well beyond Northumberland. It also showed how we as a nation love ancient trees. Now the proposed loss of eleven trees, including an ancient 200-year-old beech, has…
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Fox hunting group avoid court with ‘secret’ police deal
It started with a court order, but ended with an out-of-court deal.
