Just one pound in five has been paid out in financial redress to postmasters wrongfully accused of theft and fraud is it time the post office is completely removed from delivering compensation . Disarray at the top of the post office in full view at a hearing in front of mps today. The main scandal remains the snails pace of redress for postmasters. Well talk live to this post Office Manager wrongfully accused of stealing £78,000 and jailed for six months, and this mp whos on the horizon compensation Advisory Board. Also tonight. Labour mp Margaret Hodge tells us shes written to the metropolitan police and the Electoral Commission to ask them to investigate whether the Conservative Party broke electoral law in taking £200,000 from the partner of a prominent donor. The chancellor said he wanted to get Older Workers off the golf course and back into employment but why have they really opted out of the workforce . In a dramatic Hearing Today, current and former post Office Bosses traded
And so far we know that 3000 people have died in the uk from infected blood and infected Blood Products given by the nhs. 0verall, 30,000 victims have been identified and these fall into two main categories. There are the people with rare genetic Blood Clotting Disorders such as the haemophiliacs, and there are people who needed Blood Transfusions after surgery, for example. So lets start with this first group, the haemophiliacs. People with Blood Clotting Disorders, they need a special protein called factor eight, Orfactor Nine injected which helps the blood clot. But by the 1970s the uk was really struggling to meet demand for these Blood Products and so they started to import from america but because america pays for blood plasma rather than it being donated for free, it came from a lot of high risk individuals, including prisoners, drug addicts and those most in need for money. And so with these donations came some deadly viral infections such as hepatitis c and hiv. In the late 7
He didnt play great tennis, but he beat Kei Nishikori to reach the semi finals of the french open for the fourth year in a row. From Colgate Lasagne to green ketchup, well look at the ill conceived products that have been consigned to the first ever museum of failure. And matt is in rochester with the weather. A bit ofa a bit of a fail as well. In morning. We are failing to know our wildflowers. I am we are failing to know our wildflowers. Iam in we are failing to know our wildflowers. I am in kent to find out more. What we do know is there is rain this week. I will have all the details coming up. Thank you. Good morning. First, our main story. In just one hour, Polling Stations will open for millions of people to cast their vote in the general election. Police forces say therell be increased security in some areas following the recent Terror Attacks in manchester and london. The first Election Results are expected at around midnight. Gary 0donoghue reports. Election day 2017, just two
responder. i sat down with first responders along with jon stewart who has fought for them for years to discuss the issue. jon, i want to start with you. we re at 16 years out and change from the anniversary of the recovery of the rescue efforts ended. how well taken care of at this point are the folks who assisted with that after 9/11? that s a great question. i think you ll agree with me whe where we are today from when we got the bill passed, it s night and day, apples and oranges. we re in a better place and we want to keep it that way and we want to only improve, but we re running into obstacles now. we re seeing that on the victim s compensation side we re going to run out of money. there s a deadline. that needs to be extended. december 18th, 2020. that currently is the deadline by which you have to sign up for the victim s compensation fund. correct. what happens with you all of you between now and then? what will you be advocating for? second part, if i didn t sign up