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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Boris Johnson defends tougher Covid-19 tier system as he faces rebellion
Boris Johnson has defended the new tier system for England in the face of a growing Conservative backbench revolt – insisting the country needs ‘simplicity and clarity’.
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Government announces Christmas Covid rules
Up to three households will be allowed to meet indoors for five days.
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Mum and two sons who died with Coronavirus
In south Wales, the funerals have taken place of a mother and her two sons who died from coronavirus within five days of each other.
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GCSEs and A-levels cancelled in Wales
Wales has cancelled all GCSE and A-level exams, in favour of teacher assessments which will be done in the classroom. Scotland has already cancelled its National 5 exams, the equivalent to GCSEs, but A-level pupils will be allowed to sit exams. There is now pressure on England and Northern Ireland to take action as well.
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Covid rehabilitation patients in Wales on life after the virus
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…
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The family that suffered 3 Covid deaths – in just 5 days
The pain of losing a relative to Covid has been unbearably multiplied for one family in south Wales.
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Drakeford outlines what post-firebreak Wales will look like
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.
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Wales records a further 37 Covid deaths
Wales is now five days into a national “firebreak” lockdown.
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‘Firebreak’ rules cause outrage in Wales
The Welsh Conservatives called the ban on non-essential goods “ludicrous” and urged First Minister Mark Drakeford to reconsider.
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Wales starts 17-day ‘firebreak’ lockdown
All non-essential shops, hospitality and leisure venues are closed.
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‘Seismic shift’ needed to manage flood risk in Wales
February’s storms battered Wales with the most severe and widespread flooding for 40 years.
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Wales to enter 17-day ‘firebreak’ Covid lockdown on Friday
From 6pm on Friday, the whole of Wales will go back into lockdown.
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Covid crash: Thousands more jobs cut
What is life like for people who have lost their livelihoods in the Covid crash?
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Wales preparing travel ban for visitors from UK Covid hotspots
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.
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Wales’s First Minister demands travel ban on people in English Covid hotspots
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.
