receiving any more fines yet.. in the scheme of things, not cheaply significant i have to say. there have been reports in the last 2a hours or so that some fixed penalty notices have been issued to people in 10 downing street garden and started by being invited to socially distanced drinks as they were described in an e mailfrom a senior civil servant and people were told to bring your own booze. the prime minister was there and has apologised in parliament saying at the time he thought it was a work event and he should have in hindsight found another way to thank people for the hard work and told everyone to go inside but up until now, at least, he is not one of those who have received a fixed penalty notice. that is not to say he won t in due course for that or other events but it is tricky to establish how the police investigation is taking its course because the met police have said they won t issue any further confirmation of major developments in the investigation until after the
least bad party the borisjohnson had been linked to and therefore, if he got that and others looked more serious but were in the mail were coming, but sounds like now or reports this evening that there may be fine striping in whitehall in boxes right now to do with the byob, bring your own booze e mail party on may the 20th 2020. this is one where martin reynolds, who, he was the private secretary to boris johnson at the time and actually sent an e mail to staff in downing street during lockdown saying please, bring your own booze and come to the downing street garden for a get together of more than hundred people. it s must be socially distanced drinks to take advantage of the lovely weather. weather. the prime minister has mentioned and known to have been there for over 20
the adjoining story centres around fresh accusations from the former government advisor dominic cummings that there was a second lockdown breaking party in the downing street garden, five days after borisjohnson and his staff were pictured having wine and cheese. those pictures that were in the papers just before christmas so that is part of the investigation also now. and the most watched video on the bbc news website is the incredible story of a truck dangling over a cliff in china. you can see it there. my goodness! it was stuck like that for three days after the driver tried to reverse on a narrow mountain road. the driver and passenger managed to escape, and the vehicle was eventually hauled to safety. eventually. terrifying. it gives me the heebie jeebies. three days! the kind of thing you dread when you go
mrjohnson and his wife. given that the rules said you could only meet one person, some staff were shocked. in messages seen by the bbc, they said. the same month, hannah brady lost herfather to covid. last year, she met mrjohnson in the very same garden. i think this pandemic, for me, is a story of two men. one is my 55 year old dad, who is dead, having spent 42 nights on a ventilator, fighting covid and no other illnesses. the other is a man who was 55 at the time of this party, borisjohnson, having survived covid himself, thought it was appropriate to host a party where you could bring your own booze, sit in the garden in downing street, where borisjohnson met me and four other bereaved families and told us to our faces, after listening to my dad s story, i did everything i could to save him. yesterday, he wouldn t answer
the headlines: an anxious wait for novak djokovic. he s back in training ahead of the australian open after winning his appeal against being denied entry. but the country s immigration minister might still revoke his visa. doctors in the us have carried out the first successful transplant of a pig s heart into a human patient. the animal was genetically modified to reduce the risk of the organ being rejected. a breakthrough would raise hopes of a solution to the shortage of organ donors. borisjohnson has refused to say whether he joined dozens of staff for drinks during lockdown. up to a hundred people are said to have been invited to an event in the downing street garden. rules at the time allowed just two people from separate households to meet outdoors. those are the main news headlines.