good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. five bulgarian nationals have been sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison after being convicted of the biggest benefit fraud ever in britain. the gang stole almost £54 million by making thousands of fraudulent claims for universal credit. the judge said they d systemically plundered the state s support mechanism to steal eye watering sums. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. taxpayers money thrown around like confetti by a multi million pound fraudster. the scale of the scam astonished investigators. now the gang behind it have been sentenced. the full story of britain s biggest benefit fraud can be told. prosecutors say thousands of people were flown from bulgaria to london, that ids were then used to make claims for the main benefit universal credit. police officers. when the fraudsters various premises were raided, investigators found an extraordinary amount of evidence. 900 mobile phones
and outside the island. mr mosley presented programmes on health, and his books on intermittent fasting for weight loss have sold millions of copies worldwide. his family had said the last few days have been unbearable. dr michael mosley s former co presenter on trust me i m a doctor dr saleyha ahsan joined us earlier. i just want to begin with sending my deepest, sincerest condolences to michael s family, the last few days and today have been horrendous for them. i think, for those of us that worked with michael and know him as the resourceful, inventive man he is, we just hoped that there would be good news at the end of this, just kept thinking he would find a way to make it out and we would have a hell of a story from him, so even though things were stacked against him as the days rolled on, just kept hoping the news would be good. there has been no formal identification of this body, which we learned had been found today, but the sheer number of people who have expre
It is centre stage in British Politics. Italy is eating members of parliament, of the 650 At Westminster. This is the breakdown. Green, sinn fein. That represents those who want Northern Ireland to leave the 80 kingdom. And red, dup. Those are the ones that the conservatives would like to get support from. It has proved controversial. They do not approve of same six marriage. That has prompted the leader of the scottish conservatives to see this. received a categorical assurance that in talking to the dup, no row back of lgbt rights. We introduced equal marriage, to the house of commons, these are the assurances i received. That was one issue. Also some concerns about the Power Sharing agreement. Irish nationalists and unionists must work together, and for various reasons that system broke down injanuary. This is alistair campbell, who used to be tony blairs press officer. Explaining why he thinks this idea of the conservatives and the dup going together is not good. This is about the
It is centre stage in British Politics. Italy is eating members of parliament, of the 650 At Westminster. This is the breakdown. Green, sinn fein. That represents those who want Northern Ireland to leave the 80 kingdom. And red, dup. Those are the ones that the conservatives would like to get support from. It has proved controversial. They do not approve of same six marriage. That has prompted the leader of the scottish conservatives to see this. received a categorical assurance that in talking to the dup, no row back of lgbt rights. We introduced equal marriage, to the house of commons, these are the assurances i received. That was one issue. Also some concerns about the Power Sharing agreement. Irish nationalists and unionists must work together, and for various reasons that system broke down injanuary. This is alistair campbell, who used to be tony blairs press officer. Explaining why he thinks this idea of the conservatives and the dup going together is not good. This is about the