yeah, it s a very large contract. we reveal the dog food supplier who took a cut of one of the biggest deals of all. every person that feeds rockster to their dog becomes part of our family. ..and ask why even now the government is keeping secret, crucial details about how the money was spent. this is really troubling stuff. it signals something very alarming about the state of our country. in the spring of 2020, ppe stocks were falling. covid deaths were rising. the uk government was on a massive exercise to find ppe anywhere in the world. these were unprecedented days. order after million pound order came flooding into ports like felixstowe. the uk was spending hundreds of millions of pounds on personal protective equipment. absolute chaos to start with. frustrating, a bit like the wild west. gold rush is how i would compare it, you ve seen those crazy movies. martin dubbey could see what was happening to the market from the inside. a former senior police and customs office
is where somebody gets information ijy is where somebody gets information by pretending to be somebody else. and in order to make this case, what the barrister was doing was setting out details of particular examples. so he cited a story that was on the front page of the daily mirror which involve the finances of the duke of kent, and this was a story in which he said piers morgan was involved, other senior people were involved, and he said it had been obtained by blagging, by somebody pretending to be prince michael of kent s accountant. they evidenced that by reference to material they had got through disclosure of mirror group newspapers s own files, so they had invoices, they had call records and they put them together in a kind of detective jigsaw to say this is what happened in this case, and to say this is what happened in many other cases, establishing a kind of modus operandi, if you like. for their part, mirror group newspapers say
presented. this morning we ve heard about prince michael of kent and his finances and the claimants see how that came about and noted that this and tomorrow morning and then tomorrow afternoon the time when four defendants in the newspaper group will start to put its case and very briefly what they will say is an off a lot of this is out of time, it has been raised far too late because these events happened at the very least 12 years ago. thanks for that update. much more on all the stories on the bbc website and we will be back with headlines at the top of the hour hour hello again. lots of slow moving thundery showers today bringing a risk of some flooding this afternoon. the early morning cloud in manchester was spun
details of their personal information and what the lawyer is doing is trying to establish this was a pattern of behaviour people at the highest level knew about and editors knew about and were involved in it, people like piers morgan. to illustrate this and prove it they have taken one example, a story the mirror ran about the finances of prince michael of kent the claimants say was based on information they had blagged, obtained unlawfully and they know that because they have the invoices of the private investigation company that did that. what they have done is through disclosure of material they have got from mirror group newspapers, now reach and have corn through all that information and combed through that information and put together a jigsaw of information they have