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.
We spoke to Elena Whitham, Scottish Government Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy about the latest data on deaths due to drugs in Scotland.
Ciaran spoke to former England player Lianne Sanderson… who won 50 caps during her career. He asked her how she’s feeling about England making it to the final.
Ciaran is joined by two students – Aruba Bibi, who’s just done her A levels, and T level student Jodie Powell, as well as Professor Mark Simpson, who’s Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Teesside.
Ciaran spoke to the education minister Robert Halfon a short time ago and asked him whether the huge drop in top grades in A-Levels in England was fair on students.
We spoke to Kaniela Ing, who used to represent Maui in the Hawaii state legislature, and now leads a climate change campaign group, the Green New Deal Network.
Well, it’s not just the UK. Rising prices have been causing problems for other developed economies too.
We spoke to Faye White, who formerly captained Arsenal and is England’s longest-serving female football skipper.
There’s worrying news for people who rent privately and for their landlords, too.
As the government works out how to house asylum seekers – on land, at sea and abroad – what sort of progress are they making in processing the tens of thousands of applications in the system?
We spoke to Labour MP Sarah Champion and Rama Hansraj, Save the Children’s Country Director for Yemen.
Ministers were warned by their own advisers that cutting the UK’s foreign aid budget means thousands of women in Africa will die in pregnancy and childbirth
There’s a crisis of funding in England’s elderly care homes.
A major contrast now between the two main parties – Labour would issue no new oil and gas licences.
The problem of asylum seeking children missing from Home Office hotels is still unsolved.
We’re joined from Brussels by Tobias Gehrke, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, specialising in economic security.