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AN ASSOCIATE of Health Secretary Matt Hancock owns a company that received a multimillion-pound government contract for the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE), it has emerged. Frances Stanley is the sole “person of significant control” of CH&L Limited, a Companies House listing shows. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) awarded the £14.4 million contract for the provision of isolation gowns last April. Ms Stanley told Byline Times that, due to “unforeseen logistical circumstances,” the contract was not fulfilled and the deposit paid by the DHSC was returned ...

LUZ ZUNIGA/STUFF Despite the Covid-19 lockdown, the fallen were remembered in Nelson on Anzac Day 2020 including at Anzac Park and outside the home of RSA patron John Beeching, 96, who flew with the Royal Air Force in World War II. The Australasian Orphanage​ in Lebanon was an unexpected outpost of Antipodean generosity in the years after World War I. Two Cantabrians, John and Lydia Knudsen​, opened the orphanage in 1922 in the pretty seaside town of Antelias​, long since absorbed into greater Beirut. John had served in World War I and stayed on to do relief work in the Middle East. He...