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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.

  • 20 Jul 2018

    It sounds like your standard rags to riches tale. Billy Moore, a career criminal from Liverpool, who was jailed in Thailand for handling a stolen phone, wrote a best-selling book about his experiences which became a film, A Prayer Before Dawn, which is getting high praise from critics. But Billy Moore is now back in…

  • 18 Jul 2018

    The Nursing and midwifery council admitted today the organisation’s inaction did endanger the lives of mothers and babies in Cumbria. Eleven mothers and one baby died at a hospital in Barrow between 2004 and 2013. After a damning report on the regulator’s responce to the scandal – the NMC told this programme lives had NOT…

  • 2 Jul 2018

    There’s been a massive firefighting operation, including helicopers, at moorland in Lancashire, which has been burning all weekend.

  • 1 Jul 2018

    At least 120 firefighters are battling to contain a wildfire spreading across the Lancashire moors – described as “aggressive” and “rapidly developing”. Helicopters have been drafted in to tackle fires in about seven areas. A major incident was declared after wildfires on Winter Hill and Scout Road near Bolton merged. Our north of England correspondent…

  • 28 Jun 2018

    Firefighters tacking an enormous fire on Saddleworth moor in the Peak district got some respite today as soldiers joined them in the effort to contain the flames. Despite the lack of much needed rain to dampen down the dry peat that, once alight, can burn for days, it seems like they might be making progress.

  • 27 Jun 2018

    The military has been called in to help over 100 firefighters and specialist officers battling a massive fire on Saddleworth Moor.

  • 18 Jun 2018

    It was an art nouveau, grade A-listed architectural masterpiece. Now, the Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is a smouldering shell after fire tore through the building at the weekend. Council officials are hoping to save it from demolition, though.

  • 17 Jun 2018

    The cost of rebuilding Glasgow’s much loved School of Art could be at least £100m, experts say – describing the damage caused by Friday’s fire as “overwhelming”. Channel 4 News approached the company carrying out the restoration work at the Mackintosh building – Kier – to ask about the sprinkler system. In a statement they…

  • 16 Jun 2018

    Glasgow’s world-renowned School of Art has been extensively damaged by another fire – in the midst of a multi-million pound restoration after the last blaze four years ago. 120 firefighters were called to tackle the flames – which First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described as ‘heartbreaking’. Our correspondent Clare Fallon is there.

  • 15 Jun 2018

    The government’s flagship welfare programme may never deliver value for money, according to a damning report by the public spending watchdog. The National Audit Office said that universal credit might end up costing more than the benefit system it was designed to replace, while leaving many of the most vulnerable claimants in hardship, waiting months…

  • 13 Jun 2018

    As politicians wrangle over the Brexit details, what do people away from Westminster make of its progress two years on from the referendum? We went to Brexit-backing Blackpool to find out.  

  • 7 Jun 2018

    The nursing regulator has been responding today to a highly critical report about the way it handled the Morecambe Bay baby death scandal. But parents who lost children when police reports were overlooked say lessons have not been learnt by the regulator.

  • 4 Jun 2018

    The government has described the Northern Rail timetable fiasco, which left passengers stranded and delayed, as “totally unacceptable”. We have spoken to one Northern Rail worker who says he feels “ashamed” to wear the uniform and that staff knew the new timetable “probably wouldn’t work” before it was introduced.

  • 1 Jun 2018

    It’s notorious as being one of the most difficult diseases to detect in its crucial early stages, and survival rates here are poorer than in the rest of Europe. Most types of ovarian cancer, once diagnosed, are treated with chemotherapy. But a new breakthrough drug, called niraparib, is being made available on the NHS. It…

  • 31 May 2018

    The mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has today accused the transport secretary, Chris Grayling, of “sleeping behind the wheel” as the travel chaos caused by new rail timetables continued to get worse. In the south of England, Thameslink today cancelled at least 97 trains, but commuters in the north faced even greater problems, with…

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