Paul Sims

Paul Sims is a hugely experienced national news reporter who joined in 2013, having previously worked at the Daily Mail and London's Evening Standard, and has covered major events at home and abroad during a career spanning 25 years. In February 2022, Paul was among the very first journalists sent to cover the Ukraine war after Russia launched its illegal invasion and has reported on the conflict extensively ever since. He was the first to interview British PoWs released by Russia as part of a prisoner exchange and in May 2024 filed from the frontline in Kharkiv as Russian troops poured over the border. Paul was also in Israel for the beginning of the war with Hamas and was among the very first journalists into Gaza, filing his astonishing account, Inside Murder HQ, and exposing the as troops went behind enemy lines to hunt the terrorists behind the October 7 massacre. At home, he landed the first and only interview with England and Manchester City footballer Kyle Walker after exposing the married ace's secret second lovechild with ex-mistress Lauryn Goodman. Paul also exposed Prince Andrew's Buckingham Palace rages - and revealed how Royal maids were trained to lay out his treasured collection of 72 teddy bears. He covered the explosive Wagatha Christie libel trial from start to finish, the deaths and funerals of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, and the accession and Coronation of King Charles III. During his time at The Sun, he has twice been short-listed for Scoop of the Year, for paedophile ex-footballer Adam Johnson's vile prison boast about his schoolgirl victim and Ant McPartlin finds love again