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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Alexei Navalny funeral: Anti-Putin chanting as thousands of supporters turn out
Iran counts Russia as a key ally. Iranian drone technology has helped Russia in its war in Ukraine. Both regimes have faced opposition on their streets – and have put them down brutally at times.
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Gaza: No water, electricity or food in ‘severely damaged’ Nasser Hospital
The World Health Organisation has managed to evacuate two groups of patients from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which Israeli forces raided on Thursday.
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Government signed off on Post Office executives bonuses
We know it’s been called the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history.
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Labour announces climate u-turn as planet hits 1.5 celsius warming over whole year
Labour’s u-turn comes on the day when the EU Climate Service said it was the first time global warming exceeded 1.5 celsius for an entire year.
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Post Office handling of compensation criticised as ‘medieval’ by Horizon Compensation Advisory Board
They’re supposed to be offering full and fair compensation to thousands of victims whose lives were turned upside down.
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Exclusive footage shows how foxes are being illegally hunted by hounds
It’s been almost two decades since fox hunting was banned in the UK.
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Paula Vennells was ‘lying’ about Post Office scandal, claims forensic accountant
It might have taken a drama to galvanise the response to a crisis – but the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal is gradually bringing more details to light, as hundreds of victims seek justice for their ruined lives. The inquiry will be hoping to uncover more details when it examines a series…
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We got ‘too close to the truth’, says forensic accountant who was called in by the Post Office to investigate then sacked
We spoke to Ian Henderson from Second Sight forensic accountants, who were called in by the Post Office to investigate.
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Post Office inquiry: Released Fujitsu emails accuse sub postmaster of being ‘nasty chap’
Alex Thomson explains developments at the inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal.
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Post Office Board knew about Horizon system flaws and exclusive document show its insurers were alerted
As the Post Office Inquiry continues to hear testimony, more and more details are coming to light about who knew what when.
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Post Office scandal: Fujitsu says it has ‘moral obligation’ to compensate victims
Until now, Post Office and Fujitsu bosses had avoided the cameras over the Horizon IT scandal. That scandal saw more than 900 subpostmasters wrongly prosecuted for theft, false accounting and fraud between 1999 and 2015.
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Post Office investigators accused of ‘Mafia-style’ bullying of sub-postmasters
A former Post Office investigator has told the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal that he and his colleagues did not “behave like mafia gangsters”.
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2023 ‘by far the world’s hottest year on record’
It’s official: 2023 was by far the world’s hottest year on record, according to the European Union’s climate service.
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Gaza population ‘has nothing left’, says ICRC’s Hisham Mhanna
We spoke to Hisham Mhanna, from the International Committee of the Red Cross who is in Rafah in Gaza.
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Post Office scandal compensation cannot cover ‘hell I’ve been through’, says wrongly convicted former postmaster
One of the wrongly convicted postmasters was Vijay Parekh. He was falsely accused of stealing over £70,000 and spent four months in prison.
