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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‘All our ICU patients are in their 50s or younger’ – frontline Welsh doctor who recovered from virus
A critical care consultant in the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport is urging the public to keep listening to government advice.
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Welsh health minister pledges to double the number of hospital beds
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.
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Welsh government’s coronavirus test deal collapses
In Wales, the government has again expressed its disappointment over the apparent collapse of a deal to deliver extra coronavirus testing capacity.
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Questions over apparent collapse of deal to provide extra coronavirus tests in Wales
In Wales, there are growing questions over the apparent collapse of a deal to provide additional coronavirus testing capacity in the country.
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Lockdown will continue for ‘weeks and weeks into the future’ – Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething
Lockdown will continue for ‘weeks and weeks into the future’ – Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething
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More than a hundred self-isolating NHS staff return to work in Wales after being tested
More than a hundred self-isolating NHS staff return to work in Wales after being tested
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Coronavirus isolation: How to protect our most vulnerable
Letters will go out this week to the one and a half million most vulnerable people who are being told to self isolate for the next twelve weeks at least. And along with that – coordinated efforts by local authorities across the UK to support those who won’t be able to leave their homes –…
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The gin distillery now making hand sanitiser – and giving it away
With social distancing and self-isolating becoming the new normal, businesses are trying to adapt under huge pressure.
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The extraordinary mobilisation of staff in one Welsh hospital – as they prepare mentally for impact of coronavirus
The extraordinary mobilisation of staff in one Welsh hospital – as they prepare mentally for impact of coronavirus
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Hospitals rush to increase capacity of intensive care units
Across the UK, hospitals are desperately trying to increase capacity in their intensive care units to cope with patients requiring ventilation – the front line of the virus pandemic.
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First coronavirus death in Wales
The first death of a patient with Coronavirus in Wales was confirmed this afternoon.
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Wales rolls out video consultations to help people self-isolating
In Wales, a further six cases have been confirmed this afternoon – taking the total there to 25.
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Coronavirus: on Wales’ public health frontline
The broadcaster Sky has sent home staff at its Cardiff call centre after a worker there was diagnosed with coronavirus.
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How older people are dealing with coronavirus threat
Boris Johnson has promised more detailed advice for older people and others who are vulnerable to coronavirus, when the UK moves onto the next stage of the plan.
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Greta Thunberg joins climate strikers in Bristol
Today Bristol was reverberating to shouts of ‘Greta, Greta’, as the 17-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg gave a short but punchy speech to about 30,000 people.
