👤 Ian Aikman

5 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
5
2026-07-31 – 2026-10-12
Claims per article
31
157 extracted in total
Hedged claims
8%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,931
characters
Writes for BBC News.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Crime & Law
20%
Health
20%
Politics
20%
Technology
20%
World
20%
Most-tagged topics
AFPBBC Panorama'sCheshire PoliceChinaCoopérative UEnglandFrenchHealth

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.14 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-08-25 · BBC News · Politics
Iran says it is 'fully prepared' to counter widened US economic sanctions
19 outlets covered this event
2026-10-12 · BBC News · Technology
French supermarket fridges heated to 50C in 'unprecedented' cyber attack
9 outlets covered this event
2026-09-15 · BBC News · Health
Baby 'cot cams' plan after inquiry finds Lucy Letby crimes could have been prevented
9 outlets covered this event
2026-09-15 · BBC News · Crime & Law
Thirteenth Met Police officer sacked after Charing Cross Panorama film
2 outlets covered this event
2026-07-31 · BBC News · World
At least five members of same family killed in Russian missile attack, Zelensky says
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly right

What they said would happen

2026-07-31 · BBC News
At least five members of same family killed in Russian missile attack, Zelensky says
🔮 In Kyiv, one person died and fires broke out in three non-residential buildings overnight, the capital's mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram. assertive
2026-08-25 · BBC News
Iran says it is 'fully prepared' to counter widened US economic sanctions
🔮 Iranian Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh said Tehran was "fully prepared" for the sanctions, which he said would lead to "another defeat" for the US. assertive
2026-09-15 · BBC News
Baby 'cot cams' plan after inquiry finds Lucy Letby crimes could have been prevented
🔮 - Published Health Secretary Yvette Cooper has said officials will "urgently develop plans" to introduce live-streaming cameras on England's baby wards after an inquiry into Lucy Letby's murders and attempted murders. assertive
2026-09-15 · BBC News
Thirteenth Met Police officer sacked after Charing Cross Panorama film
🔮 A disciplinary panel on Tuesday heard that O'Connor had, while off-duty at a pub, told a female colleague that he hoped she would be raped on her way home. assertive
2026-10-12 · BBC News
French supermarket fridges heated to 50C in 'unprecedented' cyber attack
🔮 French broadcaster BFMTV published an image showing a freezer in an ice cream aisle displaying a temperature of 26.5C. Two supermarkets in the Alsace region reported losses of €270,000 (£228,000) between them, the broadcaster added, meaning the nationwide total could run into the millions. The Paris prosecutor's office told AFP it had opened an investigation into the incident, which it called a "large-scale cyber-attack affecting the refrigerators of several major food retail chains across France". mixed
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