Alex Thomson

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Biography

Alex has been chief correspondent and a main presenter of Channel 4 News since 1998 and has won 10 awards since joining the programme as a reporter 10 years earlier.

As well as regularly anchoring the programme, Alex has covered 15 wars in the Gulf, Balkans, Africa and Afghanistan.

Over the years he has become closely identified with the programme's investigations into the events of Bloody Sunday - for which he won the RTS award in 1997 and was threatened with prosecution for refusing to disclose sources, a threat that was later recalled - and the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre.

Most recently, he was the first to get a straight "no" out of David Cameron concerning his drug use while an MP.

Before joining Channel 4 News Alex worked for BBC Television and Radio in Northern Ireland. He has also written books about India and the Gulf War.

Alex writes a regular column for Press Gazette.

No breakthrough for longer truce »

The French and Egyptian presidents trumpet a plan for peace, but Israel and Hamas show little sign of wanting a ceasefire in Gaza.

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Snowmail: is it a ceasefire? »

French officials were sent scrambling today to explain President Sarkozy's claim that a ceasefire had been agreed in Gaza, writes Alex Thomson.

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What happened at Jabaliya? »

The Israeli attack on the UN school in Jabaliya, which killed 30 people, has provoked strong reaction. Alex Thomson interviews all sides for their view of events.