For more than two years, Baroness Mone has lived a reclusive life as she has endured repeated death threats over accusations her family illegally profited by selling unusable PPE equipment during the Covid pandemic.
celsius. three simultaneous heatwaves in different continents in the northern hemisphere. these weather systems are not unusual in the summer but what is unusual are the summer but what is unusual are the incredibly high temperatures which is driven partly by climate change, which is making extremes, exaggerating extremes, pushing extremes further. we have longer heatwaves with higher peaks. and scientists have warned that was likely to happen and we are seeing it in triplicate this year. a report into the company ppe medpro, which has been accused by the government of supplying defective gowns during the pandemic, will be released today by the public accounts committee. the company was recommended to ministers by the peer baroness mone, and the firm won a contract worth £122 million to deliver gowns for the nhs, but none of them was ever used. ppe medpro have stated
effects accentuated, exaggerated by the effects of climate change which is pushing effects of climate change which is pushing temperatures up and making heatwaves pushing temperatures up and making heatwaves like this longer and more extreme extreme. studio: thanks. a report into the company ppe medpro, which has been accused by the government of supplying defective gowns during the pandemic, will be released today by the public accounts committee. the company was recommended to ministers by the peer baroness mone and the firm won a contract worth £122 million to deliver gowns for the nhs, but none of them was ever used. ppe medpro have stated that the gowns were in accordance with the contract. lawyers for baroness mone said she never had any role or function in the company. greater manchester mayor andy burnham and four other regional mayors in the north are preparing to take legal action against train operators in an effort to stop the closure of almost 1000 ticket offices a
now a look at some other stories making the news today. a second victim who died after being injured in a crush at a concert last week in brixton in south london has been named. gaby hutchinson, who was 23, was working as a security contractor that night. the concert was cut short after people tried to force their way inside. the government is suing a company that supplied it with personal protective equipment for over £120 million. ppe medpro won contracts through the government s so called vip lane in 2020 after being recommended by conservative peer baroness mone. the company said it would rigorously defend the claim. more than 12,000 people have complained to the independent press standards 0rganisation aboutjeremy clarkson s column in the sun on friday, in which he said he hated the duchess of sussex. mr clarkson has responded to the backlash, by saying he s horrified to have caused so much hurt. he also said he wished her paraded
he was able to produce a witness to a call he says he made to the police telling them he didn t think his son was stable enough to be given a shot gun licence. the government is suing one of the companies that supplied it with ppe gowns during the pandemic for breach of contract. ppe medpro was recommended to ministers by the peer, baroness mone and the firm won a contract worth 122 million pounds to deliver gowns for the nhs, but none of them were ever used. ppe medpro said it would prove to the courts that the gowns were delivered on time, to the correct specification and at a competitive price. lawyers for baroness mone said she never had any role or function in the company. the actress, amber heard, has settled a multi million pound libel case with her former husband, johnny depp. in the summer, a jury in the united states found she defamed the hollywood actor when she wrote in a newspaper article that she was a victim of domestic abuse.