Cormac Pearson

Cormac Pearson is a reporter/sub editor at PA Media, covering news and sport. In this role, Cormac has covered politics, sport and breaking news. Cormac's career began at the Courier Mail newspaper in Brisbane, Australia, working as a breaking and general news reporter.

File photo of an HSBC bank in Covent Garden

HSBC group chief executive Noel Quinn to retire from role

Kemi Badenoch said diversity and inclusion initiatives have been shown to be ‘ineffective and counterproductive’ (Aaron Chown/PA)

Kemi Badenoch: Diversity initiatives can be ineffective and counterproductive

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes holds the Vince Lombardi Trophy after the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game against the San Francisco 49ers (Ashley Landis/AP)

Patrick Mahomes says coach Andy Reid is the ‘best of all time’

<p>Joe Schmidt has been appointed Wallabies coach </p>

Ex-Ireland boss Schmidt announced as Australia coach to replace Jones

<p>David Warner will miss the rest of Australia’s Test series in India (Jason O’Brien/PA)</p>

Warner keeps place as Australia name Ashes squad

The first rehearsal for King Charles’ Coronation has gone off without a hitch as the military paraded Buckingham Palace in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Tuesday April 18, 2023. (Yui Mok/ PA)

Coronation rehearsal sees military parade through empty London streets

A report from a global human rights organisation has revealed victims of the Windrush scandal are still being subjected to long waits and subject to being underpaid for their compensation claims. From left, Windrush campaigners Michael Anthony Braithwaite, Janet Mckay-Williams, Auckland Elwaldo Romeo, Glenda Caesar, Patrick Vernon and Dr Wanda Wyporska pose for photograph as they hand in a letter to Downing Street, in London, Thursday April, 6, 2023. (Kin Cheung, AP)

Calls to ‘strip’ Home Office of Windrush compensation administration

A report by the Work and Pensions Committee has found a “profound lack of trust” in the the health benefit system with the committee recommending “quick and easy changes” to solve it’s current issues. Sir Stephen Timms in Parliament. (Jessica Taylor, PA)

Report shows ‘lack of trust’ in system for health assessments

Cheryl Korbel, (second left) mother of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel outside Manchester Crown Court after Thomas Cashman, 34, of Grenadier Drive, Liverpool, was sentenced to a minimum term of 42 years, for the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was shot in her home in Dovecot on August 22 last year, the attempted murder of Joseph Nee, the wounding with intent of Olivia’s mother Cheryl Korbel and two counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. Picture date: Monday April 3, 2023.

Cheryl Korbel joins push for offenders to be made to attend sentencing