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Paul Lynch

I am a multi-award-winning investigative journalist with an eye for a story who produces news at a national and local level. At the BBC Shared Data Unit our work is shared with 900 titles across the UK.

As a member of the award-winning Johnston Press investigations unit, pieces on the dark web, identity theft and technology as a means to drive savings in the NHS have run on the front page of The i newspaper for consecutive days. Our Veterans in Crisis campaign recently won the MIND media award for responsible journalism surrounding mental health.

I also lecture digital journalism as part of De Montfort University's NCTJ-approved course.

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  • northamptonchron.co.uk
    20 articles
  • bbc.com
    7 articles
  • abc.net.au
    1 article
  • northantstelegraph.co.uk
    1 article
  • birmingham.ac.uk
    1 article
  • energyvoice.com
    1 article
  • daventryexpress.co.uk
    1 article

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  • Detective team who snared Northampton's most depraved sex offenders receive national award
    13 Oct 2017—northamptonchron.co.uk
    A team of detectives responsible for securing the conviction of two of Northampton's worst sex offenders have been recognised at a national awards ceremony. The team were responsible for investigating offences committed by husband and wife Nicholas and Joan Taylor who were convicted at the end of a seven-week trial in March. The couple were found guilty of 94 charges of drug and child sex offences dating from 1996 to 2006, involving children as young as 11. Both were jailed for 18 years. The...
  • Special report: Northampton could have a cat serial killer on the loose fears charity leader
    16 Oct 2017—northamptonchron.co.uk
    The appearance of at least four mutilated cat corpses could be the work of a feline serial killer here in Northampton. That is according to the London based organisation SNARL, which has been investigating a spree of attacks on family pets since the so-called Croydon Cat Killer emerged in 2014. Last Sunday, horrific mutilated bodies of two more family pets were left in a black bin liner in Bants Lane, Duston. The incident comes little more than a month after two feline bodies were discovered...
  • Paul Lynch's novel of the Irish hunger, Grace
    12 Dec 2017—abc.net.au
    (Oneworld) tells the story of the 1840s famine in his country through the journey of a young girl, walking the roads and dealing with the ‘sleeve pullers, rogues and ruffians, tinkers, beggars and pedlars’ of this terrible hunger. A grim story, told poetically and inventively. Kate Evans speaks to Paul Lynch who is in a Dublin studio.
  • Cost legacy of decades-old NHS blunders begins to rise
    16 Jan 2018—bbc.com
    NHS medical blunders dating back more than two decades are still costing millions of pounds a year in compensation, it has emerged. The negligence bill for mistakes made before 1995 - mainly maternity failings - has begun to rise for the first time in five years. A patients' charity said the figures showed just how long some families have to wait for payouts. The NHS said it had taken steps to speed up the process. 'You can't tell how affected they are going to be' What does NHS compensation...
  • Britain's bus coverage hits 28-year low
    16 Feb 2018—bbc.com
    Britain's bus network has shrunk to levels last seen in the late 1980s, BBC analysis has revealed. Rising car use and cuts to public funding are being blamed for a loss of 134 million miles of coverage over the past decade alone. Some cut-off communities have taken to starting their own services, with Wales and north-west England hardest hit. The government has encouraged councils and bus companies to work together to halt the decline. One lobbying group fears the scale of the miles lost are...

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