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after analysis by the bbc found that at least 13 schools in england containing weak raac concrete had their rebuilding plans cancelled in 2010. the work was due to be funded by a programme which was shelved when the coalition government came to power. our chief political correspondent henry zeffman is in westminster. henry, labour will be using this issue to put more pressure on the prime minister. that is exactly right. i think what this reporting from bbc verify shows is that there is at least in the example of some schools, at least 13 schools, potentially a link between the government s decision right back in 2010 when the conservatives defeated labour and came to power to scrap this building schools for the future programme which would have meant refurbishment of the development of some sort of every school in england. there is some connection between that decision potentially and between this crisis which is engulfing so many schools now. when keir starmer stands up at ....
the prosecution has called 19 witnesses so far. the most significant one is expected to take to the stand tomorrow. michael cohen. given a stern warning from the judge on friday. the judge said while he cannot subject michael cohen and other witnesses to a gag order he did tell prosecutors to let them know key is being ordered from the bench to stop talking about the case. this comes after he repeatedly used tiktok to live stream his commentary on the trial and can t trump despite repeated warnings from the prosecutors to also stop. he stream to from the apple wearing a t-shirt with the photo of trump with him behind the bars. the former president has already been fined a total of $10,000 for violating a gag order that keeps him from talking about witnesses. he has been warned that he faces jail time if he violates it again. a perjurer at the center of the prosecution case. accused of falsifying business records to hide reimbursements made to : who was made to stormy ....
peter, talk us through this decision, 22 years behind bars. yes, this is the longest sentence of all of the proud boys sent to prison over the last four days, there were four people at the end of last week and now we have this sentence for what the judge described as the ultimate leader of the conspiracy, the leader of the proud boys, the person who was really at the centre of the conspiracy, the organisational centre of that assault on the us capitol. he and others from the proud boys shortly after the proud boys shortly after the 2020 election, during that period before january the 6th when there was uncertainty over what was going to happen, but he and others were sending it social media messages threatening that there would be violence if donald trump left office. and then on the day, as you say, he was not actually in washington because he had been stopped by the police two days earlier in possession of high capacity ammunition, which is against the law in washingt ....
that time, there was notjust the furlough scheme but also grants administered by local authorities, now because there was a fear that so many businesses fell over, speed was prioritised over the normal anti fraud controls, you can t be bothered with the normal underwriting if you need to get the money out by the day, by the week, and so there were 20 people looking after this at the department for business enterprise and innovation and skills at the time, just 20 people, throwing money out there, so for example, there were 6 billion distributed injust for example, there were 6 billion distributed in just the first few weeks via local authorities, but there are problems which we now know about like for example it will local authorities databases of businesses, were out of date so sometimes that money went to businesses that didn t exist or to accounts that businesses no longer had, or, to businesses that were receiving the money on a fraudulent basis and what the mps are bothe ....