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.
Admitting that a change of leader is not ‘a feasible prospect’, the former Home Secretary Suella Braverman today urged Rishi Sunak to ‘change course’ following what she described as the ‘terrible results’ in Thursday’s elections.
We spoke to our North of England Correspondent Clare Fallon in Manchester, where Labour’s Andy Burnham has won a third term.
One piece of good news, grasped by the Conservatives today came when Ben Houchen triumphed over a Labour surge to remain as mayor of Tees Valley, which includes Middlesbrough, Darlington and Redcar. He was keen to fight his campaign on his own record, rather than that of the Conservatives in government. So what message did…
If you were going to write a guide on how not to open a huge concert venue, you’d probably use what has been happening at the Co-op Live arena in Manchester as the blueprint.
Earlier this year, an investigation by this programme led to calls for a change to the system that’s meant to warn swimmers in England about pollution linked to sewage. We revealed that some of the worst test results were being disregarded when awarding clean water ratings. Now, a new analysis of the data raises more…
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One of the biggest contests coming up in May’s local elections is for the Tees Valley Mayor. It’s a post that’s only existed since 2017 – and has, so far, only been held by one person – the incumbent conservative, Ben Houchen. He won by a big
There were angry scenes in court today after a coroner found that a 12-year-old girl who died of a stroke in hospital would not have been saved if she’d received treatment sooner.
Police say they’ve arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of murder following the death of Kulsuma Akter, the mother who was stabbed to death while pushing her baby in a pram on Saturday.
A mother who was fatally stabbed to death while pushing her baby in a pram has been named as 27-year-old Kulsuma Akter.
The latest Environment Agency data on how much untreated sewage is being dumped into rivers and seas across England makes grim reading.
It’s England’s largest natural lake and a world heritage site, with bathing waters classed as ‘excellent’ by the Environment Agency. But campaigners say Windermere’s water testing regime isn’t up to the job. They warn that, at times, the health of people swimming in the lake could be at risk. Our North of England Correspondent Clare…
Among the many damning criticisms in her report last year, Dame Louise Casey described the Met Police as institutionally sexist and misogynistic.
Is our bathing water more polluted than we think? We’ve seen documents which show that almost twice as many English bathing waters would fail pollution tests – if the regulator wasn’t legally allowed to disregard some of the worst results.
The 173 pages make grim reading for Rochdale Council, the Crown Prosecution Service and Greater Manchester Police, which today issued an apology over its multiple failed investigations.