Janet Eastham

Investigations Reporter

Janet Eastham is part of the award-winning Telegraph Investigations team along with Claire Newell, Katherine Rushton and Sophie Barnes. The team has published a series of groundbreaking exclusives that have held the powerful to account. From Covid scandals, #MeToo and corruption in sport, the team has uncovered evidence that has led to criminal and parliamentary inquiries.

Funeral firm at centre of bodies investigation has £62,000 debts

Legacy Independent Funeral Directors may also face demand to repay £20,000 in government Covid handouts

Investigations team 14 Mar 2024, 7:27pm

Charities ‘must not refuse donations because of personal views’

The UK’s charitable spirit must be nurtured, the head of the Charity Commission warns, after gifts were turned down because of activists

Janet Eastham 4 Mar 2024, 6:00am
Online doctors from Singapore should consult patients to ease burden on NHS, think tank says

Ministers should permit overseas doctors to virtually prescribe medications to British people unable to get GP appointments, paper suggests

Janet Eastham 3 Mar 2024, 10:00pm
I’m selling my iconic Coronation dress because I can never wear it again, says Penny Mordaunt

Money raised from sale will fund constituency projects because garment ‘ought to go on and do some other good things’

Janet Eastham 3 Mar 2024, 3:08pm

JK Rowling says ‘it happened again’ as man caught filming in toilets identifies as woman

Kurtis Mawson, 22, who carried out secret recordings in a public convenience, told police he considered himself female

Janet Eastham 3 Mar 2024, 1:46pm
Labour Together failed to declare £700k in donations amid anti-Semitism fears

Morgan McSweeney did not reveal source of funds over concerns about the safety of a Jewish donor

Investigations team 28 Feb 2024, 10:04pm
Family of film make-up artist call for inquest after treatment by physician associate

Christopher Tucker, who made prosthetics for The Elephant Man, died from sepsis caused by a bladder infection

Investigations team 24 Feb 2024, 6:56pm
Physician associates ‘illegally’ prescribe opiates to hospital patients

Revelation fuels fears that workers with limited medical training could be handed responsibilities that place patients in danger

Investigations team 22 Feb 2024, 6:42pm
Pictured: Driver trapped by rising flood rescued by passing couple

Rescuer said he was surprised at the apparent lack of action given the number of emergency service personnel present

Janet Eastham 18 Feb 2024, 10:41pm
Steve Wright was ‘more ill than he let on’

Friend of the BBC Radio DJ said he had undergone heart surgery after his show was axed

Janet Eastham 18 Feb 2024, 10:02pm

Support staff use doctors’ log-ins for ‘illegal’ prescriptions, medic claims

Electronic systems at NHS trusts alleged to be open to abuse by physician associates who do not have the right to prescribe drugs

Investigations team 28 Jan 2024, 8:17pm
Lena Tindall takes part in 5km fun run with father Mike

Five-year-old follows in her parents’ sporty footsteps as she joins father to raise money for Rugby for Heroes charity

Janet Eastham 28 Jan 2024, 5:02pm
Aga advert banned after claiming electric stove is eco-friendly

Advertising regulator says claims that the brand’s new oven has lowest running cost compared to rivals is ‘misleading’

Janet Eastham 28 Jan 2024, 4:24pm
Physician associates accused of illegally prescribing drugs and missing diagnoses

Patients’ lives put at risk by support staff who have failed to respond appropriately to medical emergencies, dossier reveals

Investigations team 27 Jan 2024, 8:30pm
How Lord Cameron rolled out the red carpet for the UAE

Plus, we look at how the Gulf state’s network of influence is spreading throughout the UK

Investigations team 23 Jan 2024, 11:01pm
Pro-Palestine protesters blockade bridge and clash with police on latest London march

Free Palestine demonstration in St James's Park leads to scuffles with Metropolitan Police officers

Steve Bird 6 Jan 2024, 2:29pm
Cabinet Office ‘approved hospital gowns’ made by firm linked to Baroness Mone

Email sent to company set up by Lady Mone’s husband said the specifications for gowns had been ‘approved’

Gordon Rayner 10 Dec 2023, 8:20pm
Baroness Mone: The PPE scandal made me ashamed to be a Tory – I am purely a scapegoat

Entrepreneur launches fightback over PPE equipment investigations with startling counter-allegations

Gordon Rayner 9 Dec 2023, 6:00pm
Police ‘surrounded’ by protesters at pro-Palestinian march in London

Liz Truss, former prime minister, claims on Fox News that people are being allowed to ‘demonstrate in favour of terrorists’

Janet Eastham 2 Dec 2023, 8:27pm
Police shouldn't use powers 'inappropriately' against blocked grandparents, says Lord Blunkett

Survey reveals some grandparents who have tried to send cards or gifts to grandchildren have faced police intervention

Investigations team 18 Nov 2023, 5:00pm
GP surgery blunder led to healthy 28-year-old being given fatal AstraZeneca Covid jab

Alex Reid suffered rare blood clot caused by vaccine after childhood records were used that mistakenly classified him as morbidly obese

Investigations team 14 Nov 2023, 5:28pm
Violence and hatred hit streets of London on Armistice Day of shame

Bottles thrown and fighting breaks out as officers try to prevent around 1,000 far-Right marchers reaching Cenotaph

Patrick Sawer 11 Nov 2023, 8:10pm