millions of people around the world prepare for lunar new year. and britain s andy murray is out of the australian open. he lost to spain s roberto bautista agut in four sets in what could be his last time at the tournament. the uk conservative party chairman, nadhim zahawi, has responded to reports that he had to pay a penalty as part of a multi million pound tax settlement. in a statement, the former chancellor said the tax office had disagreed about the exact allocation of shares his father had in the polling company yougov, which mr zahawi founded. he said hmrc, which is the uk s tax authority, had concluded it was a careless and not deliberate error, and that he had paid what was due. labour had earlier called for mr zahawi to resign over the matter. let s go through all of this, there is a lot of detail here. reminders to the background of all of this. for almost a week, nadhim zahawi has been under pressure to give more detail about his tax affairs. there is one centr
has responded to reports that he had to pay a penalty as part of a multi million pound tax settlement. in a statement, the former chancellor said the tax office had disagreed about the exact allocation of shares his father had in the polling company yougov, which mr zahawi founded. he said hmrc, which is the uk s tax authority, had concluded it was a careless and not deliberate error, and that he had paid what was due. labour had earlier called for mr zahawi to resign over the matter. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more on today s statement. for almost a week, nadhim zahawi has been under pressure to give more detail about his tax affairs. there is one central question at the heart of this scrutiny and that is whether he used an offshore entity to hold shares in the polling company yougov which he set up before he came to politics back in the year 2000, and also whether subsequently he has paid a settlement to hmrc for tax that he owed as a result of potenti
nurses in england and ambulance staff in england, wales and northern ireland are planning more strike days in february and march. for decades, david sutherland illustrated the beano s bash street kids and dennis the menace, creating childhood memories for so many of us. following his death at the age of 89, the editor of the children s comic has described him as the single most important illustrator in beano history. aileen clarke has been looking back at a life well drawn. i ve always enjoyed drawing, even from a young lad. when i was young, i used to. my dad used to buy me the dandy and the beano. and i didn t think that i would be drawing for the beano. and he drew these famous comic strips in the beano for 60 years. david sutherland was responsible for more than a thousand dennis the menace adventures, and he d drawn the bash street kids every week from 1962 to last month.
the menace, creating childhood memories for so many of us. following his death at the age of 89, the editor of the children s comic has described him as the single most important illustrator in beano history. aileen clarke has been looking back at a life well drawn. i ve always enjoyed drawing, even from a young lad. when i was young, i used to, my dad used to buy me the dandy and the beano. and i didn t think that i would be drawing for the beano. and he drew these famous comic strips in the beano for 60 years. david sutherland was responsible for more than 1,000 dennis the menace adventures, and he d drawn the bash street kids every week from 1962 to last month. i usually get, the meat of the story comes from the script. but the writer s script was always just the starting point. the bits that are the best bits that you see when you ve written something are the extra bits that david added in, and david did that every single time for 60 years. one of the very talented writers at the t