Ciaran Jenkins is the Data Correspondent and Presenter for Channel 4 News based in the Leeds newsroom.
He covers a wide range of stories, from home and social affairs to sport and technology. He has reported exclusively for Channel 4 News on international phone hacking scams and police racism.
Ciaran joined Channel 4 News in 2012 from the BBC, where he had specialised in politics and then education. During his time at the BBC he broke a series of exclusives on bogus academics and visa fraud, for which he won a number of awards.
Justin Jones is a Democrat Tennessee state representative. In April, he was expelled from the chamber after calling for gun reforms during a protest on the House floor. But he told me he refuses to be silenced.
We spoke to the First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, about the concrete crisis as he took part in a rally “for Scotland in the EU”.
The UK economy bounced back from the pandemic much better than previously thought, according to revised figures from the Office for National Statistics. It means the UK is no longer the G7’s worst performing economy on that measure.
The senior midwife Donna Ockenden has told this programme that accountability of NHS managers needs to be examined, following the Lucy Letby scandal. There have been calls for more regulation following Letby’s sentencing last week, after a number of consultants raised concerns to senior management which they say were ignored. Ms Ockenden is currently leading…
More than 100 schools across England need to find temporary classrooms after potentially dangerous concrete was discovered. The government now faces a big problem, but were there earlier opportunities to get on top of it?
Ciaran is joined by Elaine Kamarck, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in the US.
Ciaran Jenkins spoke to Kevin Bentley, who’s leader of the Conservative group at the Local Government Association. He asked him if the Government should have let local authorities know sooner.
Australia is notorious as a haven for all sorts of exotic and dangerous creatures and critters, but imagine the shock and horror when neurosurgeons in Canberra pulled out a live, three-inch worm from a 64-year-old woman’s brain.
Mass evacuation orders have been issued on the Gulf Coast of Florida as Hurricane Idalia builds up force before it makes landfall tomorrow.
We spoke to the former head of the prison service Phil Wheatley who’s had more than 50 years experience working in the prison system.
Prisons in England and Wales are so full that the government’s had to turn to police cells to house prisoners. We can reveal the cost is running into the millions. It’s called Operation Safeguard – an emergency scheme, allowing the Ministry of Justice to take over police cells and use them to lock up prisoners…
Dame Sarah Thornton was the UK’s Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner from 2019 until last year.
They’ve just won the World Cup, but Spain’s women’s football squad say they won’t play any more matches until their Football Federation president is removed.
The five-nation BRICS group of major emerging economies has invited Iran, Saudi Arabia and four other countries to join its ranks – part of its plan to put voices of the Global South at the centre of the world agenda.
New figures released by the Home Office today show the backlog in processing asylum claims has reached the highest level since records began in 2010.