Charles Thomson

A little over a month ago, Essex Police made an announcement which prompted a news firestorm. Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh and Police Co...

A short video has been released to me by EDF, sponsor of the Regional Media Awards, of me collecting my award this week.

I am very proud and honoured to report that today I was named 'Weekly Print Journalist of the Year' at the Regional Media Awards. ...

Two years ago, rock legend Wilko Johnson had just been told he had 10 months to live. Doctors had diagnosed the Dr Feelgood guitarist with t...

A short note to say I am extremely flattered and grateful to have been nominated for two Regional Media Awards. I have been nominated for...

This week I covered the court case of Lewis Daynes, who was convicted of murdering 14-year-old schoolboy Breck Bednar. This was one of the m...

In September 2010 I received an email from an aspiring writer called Danielle, asking me to take part in a Q&A about journalism ethics a...

Tonight was the official press launch of 'The Collection of Tompkins and Bush: Michael Jackson Wardrobe' . The exhibition - which w...

A few weeks ago I went to a couple of events at the London Literature Festival. The first was an evening with legendary investigative journ...

I will be posting a few audio extracts from my interview with Jermaine Jackson over the coming days. Some will be of segments which were inc...

Regular readers will remember that back in October I posted about the first installment of my Jermaine Jackson interview being published on ...

Having successfully ripped my Sky News appearance from a DVD and uploaded it to the YouTube, I was inspired to pluck another clip from my a...

George Clinton onstage at the Indigo2, 2007 Picture: James Newman "Do a search for the greatest rock bands of all time and you ...

It's been more than eight weeks since I last blogged and this is only my fourth entry since January. The reason is that I've thrown ...