Clare Fallon
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Clare Fallon
@clarefallon
Channel 4 News North of England Correspondent. Compulsive tea drinker. Lover of dance-offs. Lapsed janner/faux manc.


A briefing document sent by the EA to the Secretary of State outlined how issuing ‘no bathing warnings’ legally allowed them to disregard bathing water test results. That they “play a major part in building the overall macro narrative of an upward trend in bathing water”

Some options for improvements included changing language to “adopt more positive descriptors, replacing ‘Pollution Risk’ with ‘water quality’ forecasts. Though they warned this could be “construed as ‘greenwashing’”



Channel 4 News has uncovered concerns among serving officers at Greater Manchester Police, who've said they're taking "unacceptable risks" and that "dozens of inappropriate and disproportionate" arrests are being made every week. @clarefallon reports. channel4.com/news/greater-m…

42 year old male arrested at for indecent exposure and public order by our @GMPSpecials in the #GayVillage at 2120. Male had dropped his kecks and swung his apparatus at bouncers who had refused him entry. G

Truly powerful stories from families calling for change after failures in the mental health system. Is enough being learnt when things go wrong ? #mentalhealth @MindCharity @rcpsych @stephenfry @willyoung @FrankieBridge @MrJonnyBenjamin @campbellclaret @AnneMarie

An exclusive Channel 4 News investigation has uncovered an 800% increase over the past five years in coroners issuing official warnings about cases involving mental health issues. @ClareFallon reports. channel4.com/news/catastrop…

Er yeah sooo... personal news? After eleven and a half years, hundreds of council meetings and what I'm pretty confident has been literally millions of Andy Burnham press conferences, I'm waving goodbye to the wonderful Manchester Evening News, to join the FT as northern corr.




I've had an update on the fire in the roof at Trafford General after it was hit by lightning. Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust say a number of patients and staff have been safely evacuated from one ward. GM Fire and Rescue Service are attending manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…

Lesson for life- “To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity,honesty,loyalty humility and integrity. Allow yourself to be who you were meant to be, instead of what others say you should be.” Good😊morning 🌹





