Andy Davies , Home Affairs Correspondent
Andy Davies is a Home Affairs Correspondent for Channel 4 News covering Wales & the West of England.
In 2019 he was named TV Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society. This followed his reporting on the programme’s award-winning Cambridge Analytica investigation and ‘Out in the Cold’ homelessness series. His feature ‘Her Name was Lindy’ about a 32 year old rough sleeper who died in Cardiff was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils.
Operating out of our Cardiff bureau, he has reported on some of the most high profile criminal cases in recent years (April Jones; Ian Watkins; Jo Yeates; Becky Watts) and previously broke several exclusives on the phone hacking scandal. He is the only journalist to have interviewed ex-police officer Bob Lambert about his hugely controversial double life in which he fathered a child while working undercover.
Before joining Channel 4 News, he was a reporter for BBC Panorama and BBC Northern Ireland.
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‘One of the hardest’ winters ahead as Covid-19 cases rise in Wales
Wales has unveiled its Covid winter plan, as NHS chiefs there warned of “one of the hardest” winters in history.
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Woman who killed husband said she ‘should have stabbed him more’, court told
A woman who killed her husband told police officers “she should have stabbed him more” as she was being arrested.
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Covid: 43,000 people in England and Wales may have been wrongly given a negative test result
A serious incident investigation has been launched to find out why up to 43,000 people in England and Wales may have been wrongly given negative results on their PCR tests. Testing operations provided by a lab run by Immensa Health Clinic Ltd in Wolverhampton have been suspended. The company has said it’s “fully collaborating” with…
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Families call on Welsh government to hold inquiry into handling of the pandemic
Families in Wales who lost loved ones during the Covid pandemic have been meeting the First Minister Mark Drakeford – calling for a public inquiry into how the crisis was handled. It came as the Welsh Senedd Conservative leader announced he was taking a break from politics to deal with the mental health impact of…
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One in three babies stillborn at two Welsh hospitals could have been saved, review finds
One in three babies stillborn after being cared for at two hospitals in Wales might have survived were it not for serious clinical mistakes, according to a major review.
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Journey from Afghanistan to Wales turned into play
Thousands of Afghans who’ve fled the Taliban takeover are starting new lives, many of them here in the UK.
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Betty Campbell: Statue of Wales’ first Black headteacher unveiled
Betty Campbell defied the odds. She went on to be not only the first Black head teacher in Wales, but an inspirational campaigner who put her community in Cardiff’s docklands firmly on the map.
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From shipwrecks to Iron Age forts – how climate change threatens our heritage
It might not be the first thing you think about when climate change is mentioned.
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Met Office warns climate crisis has already arrived in UK
Hotter, sunnier and wetter. Britain’s weather in the last 30 years was different to the preceding three decades.
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Government urged to maintain ‘Everyone In’ spending on rough sleeping
There could be a surge of homeless people forced to sleep on England’s streets unless the emergency scheme which helped them into accommodation during the pandemic is maintained, according to a panel of independent experts.
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Teenage nursery worker jailed for sex attacks on infants
A teenage nursery worker who sexually abused nine young children has been sentenced to 14 and a half years. Jayden McCarthy was found guilty of 13 indecent assaults and one count of rape during his time at the nursery in Devon, as well as two other counts of rape unconnected to the nursery.
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Most Covid restrictions in Wales likely to end on 7 August
In Wales, it was announced that most Covid restrictions are likely to be lifted on August 7.
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Welsh protesters call for cap on second homes
Priced out, sold out: in some parts of North Wales almost 50 percent of the housing is a second home.
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Minister says wearing a mask will become a ‘personal responsibility’ after 19 July
England might be in the midst of a third wave, but ministers have promised that life will “return to normality as far as possible” after July 19.
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Government advisors say UK failing to deliver climate change policies
Despite setting bold and ambitious targets on tackling climate change – the government’s independent advisors say ministers have failed to come up with the policies to make them happen.
