Contaminated Blood Products and transfusions. More than 3000 of them have since died, many of them haemophiliacs who were given infected products as part of their treatment. The size of the payouts will depend on individual circumstances, but many could be looking at compensation of more than £2 million. 0ur Health Editor Hugh Pym is here. This really is quite a moment for the victims, the families who have campaigned for this for so long. Yes, it was a dramatic moment when The Public Inquiry reported after campaigners spent decades trying to get a proper investigation of this scandal and a search for truth and justice. Very soon afterwards, the General Election was called, and there were real fears General Election was called, and there were realfears in General Election was called, and there were real fears in these communities that the whole thing would just be put on hold, but now we have this government, in the middle of a summer recess, not waiting for parliament to resume, publ
and murdering 21 year old libby squire, a student from hull university last february. researchers discover that combining two drugs and using them for people who are seriously ill with covid could cut deaths by up to a half. and looking for love in lockdown how more and more people are searching for soulmates online. and coming up in sport bbc news: keeping british hopes alive in melbourne. cameron norrie is into the third round of the australian open, where rafa nadal now awaits him. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. meghan, the duchess of sussex, has won her two year legal battle with the mail on sunday over the publication of a letter she wrote to her estranged father, thomas markle, after her wedding to prince harry. today the high court ruled that the duchess had had a reasonable expectation that the letter would remain private. in a statement, she thanked the court for holding the newspaper to account and said the damage the paper had done and continue to
the irish prime minister urges a climb down in post brexit border tensions between the uk and the eu. a cooling down. hello, welcome to bbc news. the duchess of sussex has won a high court privacy claim against the mail on sunday over the publication of a letter to her estranged father. thejudge said meghan had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private . ina in a statement released following the ruling. a spokesperson for associated newspapers said they were surprised and disappointed at thejudgement. 0ur royal correspondent nick witchell gave us further detail a little earlier. now this is all about the publication by the mail on sunday on the 10th of february 2019 on a better which the duchess wrote to her estranged father thomas described by her lawyers as a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to herfather and her daughter to her father and her lawyers daughter to herfather and her lawyers had sought as i was saying this summa
the actor alec baldwin says he did not fire the gun that killed a cinematographer on the set of his latest film. the trigger wasn t pulled, i didn t pull the trigger. so you never pulled the trigger? no, no, no, no. i would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger. the army are called in to help as thousands of homes in scotland and northern england are still without power almost a week after storm arwen. and help at last for the seal pups who were caught up in the storm and separated from their mothers. coming up in the sport later on the hour on the bbc news channel: the ioc speaks to peng shuai for a second time but that s unlikely to change the wta decision to suspend all its tournaments in china. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the government has ordered an extra 114 million covid vaccine doses for booster programmes over the next two years. ministers say the deals for both pfizer and moderna jabs will future proof the uk s vaccination pr