the express stays with the tory leadership, saying liz truss will set new targets for police to cut serious crime by 20%. the guardian says a report by the public accounts committee has found the government acted fast and loose with more than £700 million worth of covid contracts awarded to a health care firms that employed the conservative mp owen paterson as a lobbyist. tomorrow s rail strike leads on the metro front page the paper says just a fifth of trains are due to run on half the network. the financial times says some of the world s biggest companies including unilever, coca cola and mcdonald s are warning of price rises as global inflation rates push up prices. and ending with sport the telegraph has england s 4 0 win over sweden. it s the women s teams first majorfinal since 2009.
necessarily. onto the guardian, this staggering figure according to the i staggering figure according to the government spending watchdog public accounts committee concluding that £770 million was played with fast and loose in the awarding of covid contracts. it s an extraordinary some. it really is. contracts. it s an extraordinary some. it really is. and this is lots ofthe some. it really is. and this is lots of the covid some. it really is. and this is lots of the covid contracts some. it really is. and this is lots of the covid contracts that - some. it really is. and this is lots of the covid contracts that were l of the covid contracts that were handed of the covid contracts that were handed out, they are now starting to be looked handed out, they are now starting to be looked at by the public accounts committee, so the watchdog in parliament that overlooks the expenditure of our money. now he was they expenditure of our money. now he was they found expenditure o
will set new targets for police to cut serious crime by 20%. whilst the times says rishi sunak has pledged to scrap vat on energy bills next year if he wins the race to be the next conservative party leader. the guardian says a report by the public accounts committee has found the government acted fast and loose with more than £700 a committee of government advisers has warned air pollution is likely to be a cause of dementia, according to the daily mail, which says there is finally enough evidence to show a link between dirty air and brain damage. tomorrow s rail strike leads on the metro front page. the paper says just a fifth of trains are due to run on half the network, with more strikes expected next month. the financial times says some of the world s biggest companies, including unilever, coca cola, and mcdonald s are warning of price rises as global inflation rates push up prices. and ending with sport the guardian has england s a social media trend which sees
laughable if it was not so serious aprons being turned into bin liners, visors being turned into trays for serving food in, and some incinerated, in other ways recycled. you know, this is desperate stuff, really, and although we were sympathetic at the beginning, we definitely needed it, it still doesn t excuse the department of health for some of these egregious errors. ~ ~ . ., ., errors. meg hillier, mp, chair of the public errors. meg hillier, mp, chair of the public accounts errors. meg hillier, mp, chair of the public accounts committee, j errors. meg hillier, mp, chair of- the public accounts committee, thank you very much. a 17th century shipwreck has been discovered off the norfolk coast, and it s being described as the most important maritime discovery since the raising of the mary rose. the gloucester sank 340 years ago while carrying the future king of england, james stuart, but the ship s whereabouts were unknown until a team of divers found it after a four year searc
we wouldn t have got anywhere. l the public accounts committee found errors dating back to 1985. more than 130,000 pensioners, mainly women, were under paid a total of £1 billion. 0utdated computer systems, manual processing, and complacency in monitoring errors have all been blamed. around 40,000 women have already died without receiving the money they are owed there s no plan to trace theirfamilies. the dwp needs to sort out the air and get cracking with making sure that people in their estates, when they ve died, have the payments that they are owed. but they also need to make sure they are sorting out their it systems for the future and crucially, we want to see proper compensation. some women will now be fully repaid. but others, like jan in fife, can only backdate claims for 12 months that s because of when her husband retired. she believes she s due £17,000. i first spoke to her last year.