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 the MP for the Port Talbot area, Labour’s Stephen Kinnock and began by asking him about the potential impact of Tata Steel’s decision.
We spoke to Dr H.A. Hellyer, a senior associate fellow in international security studies at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies who is in Jordan.
The inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal has been hearing from more employees of Fujitsu after the tech giant’s bosses apologised yesterday for its role in the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of subpostmasters. Also today, the victims of another scandal were told the final report of the public inquiry into what happened to…
Why exactly is the government so keen on its Rwanda policy? Ciaran Jenkins explains.
Much has been made of the government’s Rwanda policy and its ability to deter migrants from seeking to enter the country.
The Crown Prosecution Service has told us that “decisions made by the prosecution team” when a victim of abuse was named as a co-conspirator, “were carefully considered at the time to ensure the strongest case.”
For years, as the Press Association’s chief political photographer, Stefan Rousseau has captured images that tell the story of British politics.
British Army medical officer Preet Chandi, has become the world’s fastest woman to complete a solo unsupported South Pole ski expedition.
The number of young children who have to be treated in hospital for the winter virus RSV could be slashed by more than 80% – if babies get a single dose of a new antibody treatment.
The Czech republic will observe a day of national mourning tomorrow after yesterday’s mass shooting in Prague which left 14 people dead.
More than 15 people have been killed and dozens injured in a mass shooting in the heart of the Czech capital, Prague.
An asylum seeker has died on board the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset, which houses migrants. We are joined by the Labour mayor of Portland in Dorset Carralyn Parkes.
The internal fighting in the Conservative party has somewhat overshadowed the debate around Rwanda’s ability to safely welcome asylum seekers – if the UK government ever succeeds in sending them there. We spoke to Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and started by asking whether – from her perspective within Rwanda – the country is safe.
The UK’s former climate chief Alok Sharma has warned that the UN’s COP 28 summit must agree a plan to phase out fossil fuels – or risk pushing the world into climate breakdown. Reports from Dubai claim that the oil cartel OPEC wrote to member nations this week urging them to block any talk of…
We were joined by Jennifer Cassidy who lectures in diplomacy at the University of Oxford – she’s served as a diplomatic attache to Ireland’s UN mission.