Jackie Long , Social Affairs Editor and Presenter
Jackie Long is social affairs editor and presenter for Channel 4 News.
Jackie Long is Channel 4 News Social affairs editor and presenter. She joined the programme in 2011, following more than two decades at the BBC. Most recently she was Correspondent at Newsnight, and she previously worked on The World at One, PM and Five Live.
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Former youth worker explores reality of child exploitation in debut film County Lines
They are children drawn into a dangerous, sometimes deadly world of drugs, crime and violence. County Lines is a new film which explores the reality of child criminal exploitation in all its grimness.
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Aim is to increase cancers detected at an early stage to ‘have the best chance of curing it’ – Prof Peter Johnson
We spoke to Prof Peter Johnson, the National Clinical Director for Cancer at NHS England.
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Public sector pay freeze is ‘insulting to those workers to have stepped above and beyond’, says Fire Brigades Union official
Mark Chapman is a Hampshire firefighter and a Fire Brigades Union official.
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Tory MP Anthony Browne says ’definition of bullying is a judgmental one’
We spoke to Conservative MP Anthony Browne.
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‘Ultimate entertainer’ Des O’Connor dies aged 88
Tributes have poured in for Des O’Connor.
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‘Reducing vaccine misinformation on social media won’t solve the problem alone’ – Vaccine confidence project’s Prof Heidi Larson
We were joined by professor Heidi Larson from the Vaccine confidence project
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‘Social media companies still too slow to take down lies about vaccines’ – Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth
We spoke to the shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth and we asked him what needs to be done to encourage people to take a Covid-19 vaccine
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Families of care home residents in England to pilot regular Covid testing to visit their loved ones
Earlier we spoke to Anita Astle, who owns Wren Hall Care Home in Nottinghamshire.
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‘You don’t solve a problem by increasing benefits, but it is an important first step’- Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh
We were joined by Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh, who supports the extension of free meal provision during the school holidays and Conservative MP Danny Kruger, who voted against the Labour motion in parliament last month.
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Will public support for free school meals change attitudes to the welfare system?
Charities say it’s time to reform the benefit system to create a more permanent solution.
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Parents caught up in UK drug gangs – to protect their children
They’re ordinary mums and dads who should be worrying about how their child is doing at school. Instead, they’re driving around in the dead of night, handing over cash stuffed in envelopes to the drug gangs who are exploiting their children.
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Football Association chairman resigns after using offensive racial term
The Chairman of the Football Association has resigned after he used an offensive racial term during a Commons committee hearing. Greg Clarke, who was speaking to MPs about providing financial support for smaller clubs during the pandemic, claimed it was a term he’d used abroad. And warning this clip contains the offensive term he used.
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WHO official: ‘Sort out your systems for testing, tracing, isolating, treating’
We spoke to Dr David Nabarro, special envoy to the World Health Organization on the Covid crisis.
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Royal family sex assault claim – in United Arab Emirates
A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by a senior member of the royal family of the United Arab Emirates has told this programme she fled the country as soon as she could.
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Police investigating beheading of teacher in suburb of Paris
In France anti-terrorism police are investigating the beheading of a teacher in a suburb of Paris.
