Alex Thomson , Chief Correspondent
Alex is the longest-serving on-screen journalist on C4 News since the channel began. In more than 25 years he's covered over 20 wars; led major investigations and continues to front the programme from around the world.
His journalism has won several BAFTA and EMMY awards; two New York Film and TV Awards and in 2011/12 he was named TV Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society.
He's written two books about the 1991 Gulf War and a travelogue about cycling across India.
He has been External Examiner at Cardiff and currently Bournemouth Schools of Journalism and is Honorary Fellow in Journalism at Falmouth School of Journalism.
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‘France and Germany in Premier League, we’re in League One’ – Green Deal UK’s Fatima Ibrahim on funding to combat climate change
We speak to Fatima Ibrahim from Green Deal UK.
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Scotland makes face masks compulsory in shops and England prepares for weekend of lockdown easing
In Scotland, face covering will be mandatory in shops later this month.
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Five years after Cecil the lion was shot dead, trophy hunting continues
Warning: this report contains distressing images of animal cruelty. Tomorrow will mark five years since Cecil the lion was shot by an American dentist. The killing sparked an international outcry to ban lion trophy hunting. The UK government has made repeated promises to ban it, but hunters continue to import, quite legally, lion trophies into…
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Climate advisers warn of surge in carbon emissions as UK lockdown ends
The UK is falling behind on its target to reach net zero emissions by 2050, the government’s watchdog has warned.
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Investigation: Thousands of trees illegally felled to build IKEA’s flat pack empire
IKEA’s factories consume more than 20 million cubic meters of wood a year.
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Neolithic circle of shafts found near Stonehenge
Just two days after the summer solstice, archaeologists have made a major prehistoric discovery near Stonehenge.
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Supertrawlers are threatening ocean life and ‘making a mockery’ of UK’s Marine Protected Areas
Supertrawlers spent almost 3,000 hours fishing in UK marine protected areas last year.
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British cities embrace cycling after lockdown
Across Britain, streets are being transformed and we’ve begun to see what our new normal looks like.
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Rare butterfly species reintroduced to wild at peat bog near Manchester
Thanks to work by local conservationists, threatened peatlands are being restored.
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May 2020 sunniest month on record
The Met Office has just confirmed that last month was not just the sunniest May on record, it was the sunniest month on record.
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Birds of prey become victims of crime
Birds of prey, like the hen harrier, are increasingly the victims of crime – shot and poisoned in some cases to the brink of extinction.
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Stork chicks hatch in UK for first time in centuries
The last time such a thing was documented was in 1416, a year after Henry V defeated the French at Agincourt.
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Government announces fund for ‘infection control’ in care homes in England – but is system working?
One area the government has prioritised is making sure that patients are tested negative for Covid-19 before being discharged from hospital to care homes.
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Rail worker dies with Covid-19 after being spat at
Police are investigating the death of a railway worker who was assaulted by someone claiming to have Covid-19.
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Concerns over privacy and data protection in NHS app trial on Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight has found itself on the cutting edge of technology – as islanders began downloading the new NHS track and trace app
