Kathryn Samson , Scotland Correspondent
Kathryn Samson is Channel 4 News' Scotland Correspondent.
As an award-winning Scottish journalist, Kathryn has over 15 years of experience in television news, bringing a distinctive flair to some of the UK’s major stories of the past decade, from Brexit to the pandemic.
Based in Channel 4 News’ Glasgow bureau, she brings the latest in news, politics and social affairs from right across the country.
Before joining ITN, Kathryn served as STV's Westminster Editor. She has worked across multiple national newsrooms and has reported in both the Scottish Parliament and Westminster, including as Political Correspondent for both ITV News and ITV Border, and in broadcast journalism for BBC Scotland
Last year Kathryn was awarded Royal Television Society Nations and Regions Presenter of the Year and STV Journalist of the Year in 2020.
She has interviewed leading figures in UK politics including Boris Johnson, Nicola Sturgeon and Sir Keir Starmer, secured numerous exclusives and broken stories of political resignations on air.
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Consent for new UK oil and gas fields was unlawful, says court
Consent for two new Scottish oil and gas fields was granted unlawfully – an Edinburgh court has ruled – after a case brought by environmental campaigners.
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Malin Lewis: A rising star exploring queerness and identity through folk music
Despite the massive clear up effort across Scotland after Storm Éowyn, celebrations marking Burns night will still be going ahead.
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Systemic failures led to young prisoners’ deaths in Scotland
Two people who took their own lives in a Scottish young offenders institution were handed a “death sentence”, according to a lawyer for their families – as a fatal accident inquiry blamed systemic failures for their deaths.
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Scotland’s former FM Nicola Sturgeon divorces her husband
Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced she’s divorcing her husband Peter Murrell – saying the pair had been “separated for some time”.
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Inside the UK’s first legal drug consumption room
Lynn Macdonald shows me around Glasgow’s new drug consumption room. She’s an NHS nurse who will supervise people as they inject their own drugs here, free from the fear of arrest.
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UK’s first drug consumption room set to open in Glasgow (dubbed)
In a few days, the UK’s first drug consumption room will open its doors in Glasgow. The centre, known as ‘The Thistle’, will provide a clean place for people to inject drugs under medical supervision. This is a dubbed version of the report.
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UK’s first drug consumption room set to open in Glasgow
In a few days, the UK’s first drug consumption room will open its doors in Glasgow. The centre, known as ‘The Thistle’, will provide a clean place for people to inject drugs under medical supervision.
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Rosebank: Legal challenge over Scottish oil field begins
The fight between environmental campaigners and fossil fuel moved to the Scottish courts today.
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County Lines Gangs: Children forced into drug crime in Scotland
Across the UK children are being stabbed, trafficked or even murdered by people they believe to be their friends.
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Mourners pay tribute to “giant of a man” Alex Salmond at private service
Scotland’s former First Minister Alex Salmond has been remembered as a “giant of a man” who “restored pride to the nation” – at his funeral in Aberdeenshire.
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Alex Salmond: Tributes to the politician’s ‘huge contribution’ to Scotland
Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney says Alex Salmond “left a fundamental footprint on Scottish politics”.
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Tributes paid to ‘monumental figure’ Alex Salmond
Friends and rivals alike were quick to pay tribute, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer saying: “Alex Salmond was a monumental figure of Scottish and UK politics. He leaves behind a lasting legacy.”
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Logistics firm threatens to pull £1bn UK investment after Transport Secretary criticism
Reports claim a billion-pound investment in the UK could be under threat because ministers have criticised P&O Ferries – whose parent company DP World is behind it.
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Inside Scotland’s pioneering women’s prison
“They speak to us like human beings,” says Lucy, when I ask about staff at the Bella Community Unit in Dundee. This isn’t like any prison she’s been in before.
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Ten years after Scottish independence referendum – has anything changed?
Exactly ten years ago today, people in Scotland were voting on whether to remain part of the UK – an era-defining referendum that would end in failure for the ‘Yes’ campaign, but kickstart a now-faltering period of SNP dominance.
