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almost a0 people are dead after a passenger train and a freight train collide head on. and the singer ed sheeran opens up about using music to cope with depression last year after his pregnant wife was diagnosed with a tumour. and coming up on the bbc news channel: the long awaited disciplinary hearing following azeem rafiq s allegations of racism in yorkshire cricket club has begun in london. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. fresh questions have been raised about the judgement of the former health secretary matt hancock during the covid pandemic after a collection of his whatsapp messages were released. the messages, dating back to april 2020, published by the daily telegraph, cover issues such as care homes, schools and testing. in one of the most serious allegations the paper claims the messages show mr hancock ignored advice from senior medical officers to test everyone going into care homes in england, something he strongly denies. here s our politi ....
In england. this is obviously a good, positive step and we must put it into the document. but that evening one of mr hancock was my age row, i wasn t in the testing meeting. 0fficials row, i wasn t in the testing meeting. officials are saying it is to remove the commitment to testing and regression to care homes, but keep the commitment to testing from care homes to hospital. is that right? the health secretary responded, tell me if i am wrong, but i would rather leave it out and commit to test and isolate all going into care from hospital. i do not think the community commitment adds anything and it muddies the waters. in a statement today a spokesman for matt hancock said, these stolen messages have been doctored to create a false story that matt rejected clinical advice on care home testing. this is flat wrong. he said a meeting that they had advised it was not currently possible to test everyone entering care homes and therefore he concluded the ....