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.
As Wales approaches the end of its 17-day firebreak lockdown, there are concerns about the continuing high rates of coronavirus in parts of the country. Today the Welsh health minister rejected calls to keep tighter restrictions in place in the worst affected areas, including parts of the south Wales valleys, even though the number of…
The pain of losing a relative to Covid has been unbearably multiplied for one family in south Wales.
Wales is more than halfway through its 17-day firebreak, and today its first minister outlined what life will look like when the lockdown ends a week today.
Wales is now five days into a national “firebreak” lockdown.
The Welsh Conservatives called the ban on non-essential goods “ludicrous” and urged First Minister Mark Drakeford to reconsider.
All non-essential shops, hospitality and leisure venues are closed.
February’s storms battered Wales with the most severe and widespread flooding for 40 years.
From 6pm on Friday, the whole of Wales will go back into lockdown.
What is life like for people who have lost their livelihoods in the Covid crash?
The Welsh First Minister has announced that his government will ban people travelling into Wales from areas of the UK with high levels of coronavirus.
In a letter to Boris Johnson, the Welsh first minister said he would act if the UK government didn’t, but Downing St has again rejected the idea.
The Welsh First Minister has expressed his frustration at the UK government’s refusal to introduce travel restrictions which would prevent people from English coronavirus hotspots from making non-essential journeys into Wales.
The Welsh government says it may impose quarantine rules on people travelling to Wales from Covid hotspots elsewhere in the UK.
In Wales a new rapid Covid test has moved into the final stages of evaluation, raising hopes that it could be in use by January.
In South Wales, eight people have died with coronavirus at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital which is dealing with an outbreak on its site.