The times reported that mr menzies is accused of receiving £14,000 from tory donors, which was used for private medical expenses and to pay off what he described as bad people who had locked him in a flat. The Conservative Party has completed its investigation and says it cant conclude that there has been a misuse of Conservative Party funds. Mr menzies has strongly denied the claims. Lets get more from our political correspondent, iain watson, whos in the newsroom. Could she remind us of some of could she remind us of some of the could she remind us of some of the allegations first . It enters could she remind us of some of the Alleaations First . ,. Allegations first . It was a rather bizarre Story Allegations first . It was a rather bizarre story. It allegations first . It was a rather bizarre story. It first allegations first . It was a rather bizarre story. It first appeared i allegations first . It was a rather| bizarre story. It first appeared in the times newspaper, but they s
jails. israel says it still expects that to happen but not before friday and there will be a similar delay to the temporary halt in hostilities. hamas says there are still details to be finalised regarding the list of people to be exchanged. for now, the fighting continues there was a series of explosions in gaza through the night. israel defence forces say they targeted more than 300 parts of hamas s infrastructure. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country will continue to fight hamas until absolute victory is achieved. aid agencies are extremely concerned about the humanitarian situation in gaza. some trucks carrying supplies have been able to cross into the territory this week. but pictures like these with people struggling to secure bottles of water in gaza highlight how difficult conditions there are. we begin our coverage with this report from our middle east correspondent yolande knell injerusalem a warning, it does include some distressi
have coming from the ons, what we have here is the number of people arriving, net migration, the year ending june 2023, was 672,000 people, so the difference between those arriving and those leaving. a positive figure of 672,000. that was higher than a year earlier, injune 2022, when it was 600,000, so 10% higher, another 65,000 people arriving in 2023 compared to 2022. but the one thing they saying this is that the number was down on the estimate. if you took the december figure, it went up, but then down compared to december 2022. possibly an indication of a downward possible turn of the curve but still, as you were saying, very high figures, particularly if you consider that if you look back to the beginning, of the last election, this latest government, at the point they came in it was 226,000, so very roughly a third of the level it is now. and the promise in 2019 from the conservative government in their manifesto was that overall numbers will come down. we haven t seen
celebration. march madness, you bet. kentucky fans burning couches, flipping cars, all after kentucky wins. go figure. i mean, really. there are reports more than two dozen arrests this morning as the wildcats get ready to play in the title game. it sounds like a disney movie. school kids find bags of sunken treasure. this is a true story. it s like a time capsule to the past bursting with gold and silver antiques. and we will be talking to the kids who actually found the loot. the next president of the united states! oh, bummer. whoa, there s really a big joke that s about to play out after this freeze. mitt romney being punk d by his staff. what does he see to his left? gop front-runner totally falling for an april fools day prank. we ll show you that reaction coming up later on in the program. up first, the parents of trail a trayvon martin their case to the justice department. but were overruled by the state attorney s office. thousands attended a rally and a con