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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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.
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Leeds becomes first UK city to lower childhood obesity
Leeds has seen a reduction in the rate of overweight younger children – a first in the UK.
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Social mobility in UK ‘has stagnated’ since 2014
Inequality in Britain is now “entrenched from birth to work”.
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Week ahead of local elections, anger and apathy over Brexit dominates conversation
Brexit has led to a mixture of anger and apathy, with some saying they’ll never vote again.
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Manchester bombing: Report urges firefighters to work with government to end dispute
It has emerged that a dispute between the Fire Brigades Union and employers at the Fire and Rescue Service, means that terrorism response teams are no longer in operation in Greater Manchester.
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Police accused of ‘concealing errors’ that could have prevented murder
A police force, probation service and police watchdog have been accused of a ‘systematic cover up’ over a man’s murder. Speaking in the Commons – the Wrexham MP Ian Lucas has revealed mistakes he believes were made in the lead-up to the death of Nicholas Churton, two years ago. Earlier this week we reported on…
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Hillsborough jury unable to reach verdict in Duckenfield trial
The match commander at the time of the Hillsborough disaster, David Duckenfield, could now face a retrial, after a jury failed to reach a verdict on charges against him.
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British government resisting return of Chagos islanders
For the people who were forced out, the campaign to return home has been painful and long drawn out – with the British government fighting every step of the way.
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Zimbabwean citizen living in UK fears deportation
Zimbabwean citizen Marian Machekanyanga says she lives in fear of being sent back from her life in Sheffield to the country she left sixteen years ago in search of asylum, after she exposed government corruption under President Mugabe.
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How Anna Soubry’s constituents view her resignation
One of the three Tories to quit was the former Business Minister Anna Soubry.
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How Berger’s Liverpool constituents view her resignation
One of the MPs in the new breakaway group, Luciana Berger appeared on the programme, and spoke about facing a torrent of online abuse and anti-Semitism.
