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.
The SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes has insisted her campaign isn’t over – despite support draining away over her views on gay rights.
Three candidates have now entered the race to become Scotland’s next First Minister, following the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon.
It’s been four days since Nicola Sturgeon’s shock announcement that she will step down as First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party.
We spoke to DUP MP Sammy Wilson who is the unionist party’s chief whip in Westminster.
We spoke to former Metropolitan Police officer Simon Harding.
We spoke to the New York Times reporter Tariq Panja, who is co-author of the book ‘Football’s Secret Trade’ and first of all I asked him what we know about Sheikh Jassim?
We spoke to Lord Darroch who was formerly the UK’s permanent representative to the European Union, as well as ambassador to the United States.
The race to become Scotland’s next First Minister has begun – tonight the Scottish National Party’s national executive is meeting via video conference to decide the timetable for the leadership contest.
Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to stand down is still being digested in Edinburgh, with both her political allies and adversaries now rapidly recalibrating their next moves.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that “heightened public concern” contributed to the Scottish Government’s decision yesterday to pause transfers to women’s prisons of transgender prisoners with any history of violence against women.
The transgender woman found guilty of raping two women when she was a man has been moved to a men’s prison and will not serve her sentence in a women’s jail.
Thousands of musicians from countries across the world have descended upon Glasgow to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the folk festival Celtic Connections.
While the crisis in hospital A&E departments has been dominating recent headlines, the situation in GPs surgeries may be just as less urgent.
The battle lines were drawn today in the next constitutional show-down between Westminster and Holyrood, as the Scotland Secretary confirmed plans to block a Scottish law making it easier for people to change their legal gender. Alistair Jack insisted the government weren’t taking the decision ‘lightly’, but said that the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill…
We’re joined by NUS Scotland President Ellie Gomersall.