last christmas, scotland s health secretary michael matheson went on a week long holiday to morocco. he brought along his ipad, which was issued by parliament, and while he was there he racked up a data roaming bill of almost £11,000. this is a breakdown of his ee usage, which was released by parliament, and it shows that he used more than six gigabytes of data while on that trip. he assured staff that the ipad was being used for parliamentary business, and of that business the parliament said that they would cover the bill, but that £3,000 should come out of the expenses budget from mr matheson s office. it then transpired that the sim card in the ipad should have been updated a year earlier, and that mr matheson had been made aware of that information by e mail. so, on that basis, he has since agreed to pay the bill in full, but there are still questions about how exactly he managed to use such a huge amount of data. the opposition scottish conservatives have pointed out
have made it through to the cricket world cup final following a three wicket victory over south africa. they face india in sunday s final. south africa won the toss and chose to bat first, however they were reduced to 2a a following superb spells with the new poll byjosh hazlewood and mitchell starc. hazlewood and mitchell sta rc. davidmillarhelpedwith ioi,but theywere alloutfor212. pat cummins s side made afantastic start. australia edged closerto thetalk about losttheir seventh wicket with 20 runs still needed. they kept their cool to complete a hard fought victory with 16 balls to spare. novak djokovic has boosted his chances of making the atp finals after he recovered from a second skynet second set slump. he took the first set against his polish opponent on a tie break. despite losing the second set 6 a, the defending champion came back in the third to take that uncomfortably 6-1. there is an evening of international football under way with nine european qualifiers th
sons watching football on holiday. hello, i m rajini vaidyanathan. welcome to the daily global, where we ll bring you the top stories from around the world. israel s military said her body was found in a building near gaza s biggest hospital al shifa. israeli media said she was 65 years old and worked as a kindergarten teacher. her body has been identified by forensic examiners and her family have been informed. meanwhile, the director of the al shifa hospital says israeli soldiers are still inside the complex after storming it on tuesday night. israel has repeatedly claimed that hamas has hidden a military command centre in tunnels beneath a hospital. a claim thatis tunnels beneath a hospital. a claim that is disputed. our correspondent is injerusalem with the very latest. let s talk about what we have been hearing in the last hour so from the israeli military about the recovery of the body of one of the recovery of the body of one of the 240 or so hostages taken by hamas ac
the two are not inextricably linked. and that is why you will know, for those of you who have worked with me before, my instinct is always to praise in public, to criticise in private. and if if your officers if your staff respond to that style of working, i genuinely believe we can maximize the work that we do on behalf of the british people. and ultimately, that is my aim. that is my aim. our correspondent mark lobel has been summing up the home secretary s speech. after weeks of debate about protests and policing we were really looking to see if the new home secretary would be drawing a line between himself and suella braverman, sacked, of course, on monday. we got that really in this line, didn t we, to praise in public and to criticise in private. that was no doubt a reference to the fact that many people had looked at suella braverman over the past few weeks as more of a pundit, as some analysts had described her, rather than a politician by putting her thoughts into co