Clare Fallon , North of England Correspondent
Clare Fallon is the North of England Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Clare joined Channel 4 News in 2018 having spent almost two decades covering some of the biggest stories in the North of England for both television and radio news.
Most recently she was Social Affairs Correspondent for the BBC in the North West, where she covered the bomb attack at Manchester Arena in which 22 people were killed.
Clare was also responsible for a series of exclusive reports exposing the failings in the response to the death of Cumbria toddler, Poppi Worthington. Her work on the story was mentioned in the House of Commons.
Having previously worked for Sky News and ITV Granada, she covered the riots in Manchester and Liverpool in 2011 and worked extensively on the Rochdale grooming case, for which she won a Royal Television Society award.
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Scotland drug deaths per head highest in world
A complex range of factors are to blame say the Scottish government, and they want the powers devolved from Westminster so they can bring radical measures to tackle what they describe as a crisis.
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‘Catastrophic errors’ in operation that led to fatal shooting of unarmed man, inquiry finds
A public inquiry has concluded that police made “catastrophic errors” in an operation that led to the fatal shooting of an unarmed man.
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‘We were sidelined from Idris Elba project’, say female writers at Manchester International Festival
It’s billed as 18 extraordinary days of art, but the Manchester International Festival, which opens today, has been caught up in an row about who wrote one of the plays that is having its premiere there. “Tree” was the brainchild of Idris Elba, but two women writers who were involved in the early stages say…
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The mothers skipping meals to feed their children
Young mothers seeking to work and become financially independent are struggling against a background of low pay, zero hours contracts and benefit cuts, according to the charity The Young Women’s Trust.
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Government urged to scrap 200-year-old vagrancy act by coalition of homelessness charities
Homelessness campaigners are asking the government to scrap a 195-year-old law that makes it a crime to sleep rough or beg in England and Wales.
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Meet the Conservative Party members who could decide the next Prime Minister
What we know from a study of the one hundred thousand plus Conservative members is that they are predominantly male, from the south of England and aged over 55.
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Three die after eating sandwiches infected with listeria
Public Health England has launched an investigation after three hospital patients died in a listeria outbreak linked to pre-packaged sandwiches.
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Domestic abuse survivors ‘denied safe housing’
Some 2,000 domestic abuse survivors every year are at risk of homelessness or having to live with their abuser because they are not considered a priority by councils, according to an investigation by the charity Crisis and a parliamentary group.
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South Yorkshire: Brexit support remains rock solid in Labour heartland
One place that illustrates Labour’s Brexit dilemma perfectly is in South Yorkshire.
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Voters in Buxton on who should be next Conservative leader
It might be just Conservative members who get a say in the leadership contest – but what about the wider electorate?
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Jobs at risk as British Steel seeks government help to avoid administration
British Steel is on the brink of going to the wall, and with it more than £4,000 jobs, unless it can get £30m in emergency government funding.
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Man City stage victory parade after winning domestic treble
Twenty years ago you wouldn’t have bet a pint on it. But at the weekend Manchester City became the first English men’s side to win the domestic treble.
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Wife of missing man in North Yorkshire makes desperate appeal
The wife of a man who hasn’t been seen since walking out of hospital a week ago says she’s desperate for him to return to his family. Peter Brown was receiving mental health treatment in Scarborough when he went missing. But as politicians, celebrities and royalty acknowledge Mental Health Week, Peter’s wife Natalie believes services…
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Hillsborough safety officer fined £6,500
The former club secretary of Sheffield Wednesday has been fined £6,500 for a health and safety offence on the day of the Hillsborough disaster.
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Labour lose some seats in northern strongholds
Labour’s night wasn’t quite as bad as the Conservatives’, but they still lost seats pretty heavily, with particularly worrying results for them in what would normally be considered strongholds in the north.
