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further strike action. good morning from wimbledon on day three of the championships. after rain disrupted much of the play, 87 matches are scheduled for today as they try to clear the backlog. a rest day for andy murray though, as he eases into round two on a day where only eight matches were completed. the forecast today is sunshine and showers — the forecast today is sunshine and showers. showers fairly hit and miss for most _ showers. showers fairly hit and miss for most of— sh...

As teachers in the national education union strike over pay. the government says its pay offer is fair and reasonable. parents have been warned that end—of—term events such as sports days, concerts and school trips could be disrupted. a group of mps have said the government wasted billions of taxpayers money on unusable ppe and warned about an "alarming" lack of plans for an emergency stockpile forfuture pandemics. in a report, the commons public accounts committee said the department of hea...

Department for help is suing to try and get its money back plus costs. his excuse is accusing the company of ppe medical strongly rejects the claim. it accuses the government of having vasily over ruled its on ppe and accusing the government of picking on the contracts on technicalities. it said it would demonstrate to the court it supplied its gone so that government and with a competitive price. it was showed the utter incompetence of the department of health to procure ppe. during this period...

Nada tawfik, bbc news, new york. the number of children to have died from a severe strep a bacterial infection in the uk since september has risen to eight. the unnamed child was of primary school age and lived in hampshire. it comes as health experts and the government are urging parents and doctors to remain vigilant for signs of the illness which can include a sore throat, high temperature and a rash. labour will today attempt to force the government to release documents surrounding the award...

The start of the pandemic when everyone across the world was trying to get their hands on things like masks, gloves and pounds. 0ver to get their hands on things like masks, gloves and pounds. over the last few weeks there had been questions over this company. the bbc revealed in december 2020 that a lot of what they had been signed up to provide was not used. they had a £200 million contract, about £120 million of that was never used by the government. there have been particular questions aft...

Were on a global pandemic, there was an urgency to find supplies as fast as possible. on this programme every day we were talking about a lack of ppe and complaining people were not able to get hold of it. can you appreciate there was not time at that point for the government to put all the checks in place? here that point for the government to put all the checks in place?— all the checks in place? here is why i am even more _ all the checks in place? here is why i am even more frustrated. - a...

Companies which could have delivered that contract were not able to get a look in. some of the £200 million, 81 million of it might full masks delivered by the same for less than half the price of what this company was delivering for the government. there is real questions about probity, around two diligence and around the billions of pounds that had been wasted. today we are still spending every single day, £700,000 on ppe storage that cannot be used as a result of some of these contracts. as...

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Will he apologised? thank you. all come onto many of— will he apologised? thank you. all come onto many of his _ will he apologised? thank you. all come onto many of his points, - will he apologised? thank you. all come onto many of his points, but| will he apologised? thank you. all| come onto many of his points, but i will say this about you cage supply chains. only i% of ppe used in the uk was produced here. the recorder of the ffp three provided the nhs manufactured in the uk. contracts we...

The public money isnt wasted again. i dont forget they had previously denied the existence of a vip lane. it existed, all right, and allow conservative politicians open doors to for anyone with connections to ministers — the whatsapp highway express. as my right honourable friend mentioned earlier, i didnt have to be this way. governments across the world responded to the covid emergency without wasting billions of pounds of taxpayers money and relying on dodgy backroom deals. the welsh labour...