And a further £14,000 was spent on private medical bills. He strongly disputes the claims, according to the times. The Conservative Party was made aware of the allegations three months ago. It says its investigating. 0ur Political Correspondent nick eardley reports the honesty needs to start now. The lack of clarity needs to stop. This was mark menzies last week in a local campaign video. When this was filmed, he was still a conservative mp. But last night he was suspended from the party. It came after allegations in a newspaper that he used funds from donors to pay thousands to so called bad people who had apparently locked him in a flat. The bbc has checked details of some of the allegations printed in the times this morning that mr menzies called a 78 year old local activist in the middle of the night, asking for money. It is claimed he said he was being detained against his will, that he needed money as a matter of life or death. The £6,500 was provided by a local activist, the m
This is bbc news, the headlines. G7 Foreign Ministers meet in capri the wars in ukraine and gaza top of the agenda. Police take down an International Cyber crime gang based in the uk, accused of industrial scale fraud. The Scottish Government is moving its climate goal post, ditching its target of reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions by 75 by 2030. And why some film fans are veering away from streaming in favour of Micro Cinemas. Londons metropolitan police have infiltrated a website, founded in the uk and used to defraud victims on an industrial scale, leading to arrests around the world. Labhost enabled scammers without Technical Skills to set up fake websites designed to trick victims into revealing personal information such as email addresses, passwords and bank details. As many as 70,000 people in the uk were tricked by the scam, which allowed the scammers to steal 480,000 card numbers and 64,000 pin codes. Detectives estimate that the labhost site made nearly £1 million in profits.
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longest serving first minister, was arrested and questioned as a suspect for more than seven hours as part of the investigation. she was released without charge. the snp s former treasurer colin beattie was also arrested and interviewed by police before being released pending further investigation. he was released without charge. but this evening, the news that peter murrell has been rearrested and is being questioned, police can question him for 12 hours. questioned, police can question him fori2 hem- for12 hours. lorna gordon, thank ou. the scottish government has confirmed it s abandoning a flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emission by 75% by 2030. it is also scrapping annual climate targets, but insists the final goal of reaching net zero by 2045 will remain. it blamed uk government cuts and backtracking on climate measures for the move. 0ur scotland editor james cook reports. for five years, the scottish government has trumpeted its tough
ago when newport reached the fa cup and played a replay against tottenham, earning £i and played a replay against tottenham, earning £1 million from that, including the replay, because games that are held in the fa cup, ticket revenues are shared roughly equitably between the two teams. if you get a home game a draw, you get a lucrative away at premier league game, so if a newport the season managed to get a replay at manchester united, they would have got roughly 45% of the 70,000 tickets sold for that game, a huge boost to them. tickets sold for that game, a huge boost to them. thank you for taking us throu~h boost to them. thank you for taking us through that. in the next couple of hours, the scottish government is expected to announce that it is ditching its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emission by 75%t by 2030. the bbc understands that the government s annual climate targets could also be scrapped, but the final goal of reaching net zero by 2045 will remain. 0ur