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.
It is now 48 days since the lockdown was imposed. And it was done across all 4 nations of the UK. The message for the public was – Stay Home, Save Lives. Today that message has changed for people living in England.
So what would the public like to hear from the Prime Minister tomorrow? And how are businesses coping while the lockdown restrictions remain in place?
Fighter planes soared in blue skies above towns and cities across the UK to mark the VE Day anniversary
A man has died following a “serious incident” at a supermarket in a south Wales village.
Scott Howell was one of the very first people with coronavirus to be admitted to intensive care in Wales. He very nearly did not survive.
There have been more calls today for the Welsh government to follow England, by offering coronavirus tests to care home staff and residents who are not showing symptoms.
There have been many, far too many deaths already in this pandemic, but also stories of survival.
The First Minister of Wales has said that a relaxation of some lockdown rules could start next month.
Governments across the UK are under pressure to increase testing capacity.
One woman in South Wales speaks about the pain of being separated in the days before her father’s recent death.
Tributes have been paid to a highly-regarded heart surgeon who has died after contracting Covid-19 in Wales.
A critical care consultant in the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport is urging the public to keep listening to government advice.
In Wales the number of hospital beds will effectively be doubled, the health minister said today. Six thousand of them will be in field hospitals in converted leisure centres and stadiums.
In Wales, the government has again expressed its disappointment over the apparent collapse of a deal to deliver extra coronavirus testing capacity.
In Wales, there are growing questions over the apparent collapse of a deal to provide additional coronavirus testing capacity in the country.