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Reporter James's beat is education, crime and terrorism. He's exposed the condition of Britain's detention centres, challenged the Met Police over gun crime and examined the chaos of the GCSE system.

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Israel and Lebanon exchange fire »

Israel has come under attack from rockets fired from Lebanon, threatening to open up a second front in the Gaza conflict. James Blake reports.

Israeli defence troops (credit: Getty)

Strikes hit UN school in Gaza »

Israeli tank shells kill at least 40 Palestinians at a UN school where civilians were sheltering.

Palestinian surveys damage at UN School in Gaza - Reuters

Israeli assault rages on »

No end to the heavy bombardment of Gaza and the civilian bloodshed, as Israel insists their land assault will continue.

Biography

James Blake is a reporter for Channel 4 News at Noon where he covers the main stories of the day, with special emphasis on education, crime and terrorism.

James joined the noon team in September 2006. Since then he has exposed the condition of Britain's detention centres, challenged the Met Police over gun crime, examined the chaos of the GCSE system and revealed the abrupt fall in state school students at England's top Universities.

Prior to this James was a producer on the specialist Home Affairs desk where he covered the rise of extremism in Britain, worked on a host of terrorist trials and investigated the history of the 7/7 bombers.

He was the first to broadcast Mohammed Sidique Khan's full suicide video. And his interview with the Algerian government was used as evidence in the tribunal of terrorist suspects on control orders.

He has also won two mental health media awards for reports on racism in hospitals and suicides in prisons.

On a brief time out from news James produced the Channel 4 Dispatches programmes 'Judges in the Dock' which won the International Legal Reporting Award.

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