No10 launches official probe into leak of Boris Johnson’s private texts to Sir James Dyson amid Tory fears of a civil service mole Leak probe launched into how PM’s private messages came to be made public Billionaire inventor Sir James Dyson offered to help with ventilators at no profit Asked for tax status of staff … Read more
Gupta’s Liberty Steel received grants even after Greensill came under investigation Money given after the Treasury launched a probe into Greensill on October 9 The Welsh Government gave Liberty’s Newport plant a £132,000 grant While the Tredegar plant was given £49,000 to save 49 jobs By Helen Cahill For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:31 BST, … Read more
David Cameron has suggested he will give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the Greensill lobbying storm. A spokesman for the former prime minister said he will ‘respond positively’ to any request from MPs. He said: ‘David Cameron will respond positively to all such requests when the terms of reference of each inquiry are made … Read more
Boris Johnson today said there are questions that need to be ‘satisfied’ over the David Cameron Greensill lobbying row as he insisted an independent probe will be given ‘carte blanche’ to ask anybody anything. The Prime Minister said he wants a review led by Nigel Boardman to be ‘done quickly’, with the legal expert to … Read more
Man and woman are found dead in £500,000 listed 18th century Suffolk townhouse as police launch probe into ‘sudden’ deaths of pair who knew each other Emergency services called to Cumberland Street, Woodbridge on Saturday Officers said couple were ‘known to each other’ and there was no wider threat Up-market Georgian town named as the … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak was under fresh scrutiny last night over the design of the Government’s pandemic loan scheme that gave access to collapsed financier Greensill Capital. Greensill, which was advised by David Cameron and run by Lex Greensill, was accredited to provide loans of up to £50million to struggling firms under a multi-billion-pound taxpayer-backed emergency … Read more
Murder probe as man, 20, is killed after being hit by VW Golf in Halfords car park as police arrest suspect, 25 A 20-year-old man found with head injuries beneath a car and died shortly after The man was run over in a Halfords car park in the Sheldon area of Birmingham Witnesses were able to detain … Read more
Police probe online ‘Suicide Squad’ as three girls are rescued… but Instagram won’t shut down teens’ ‘death chat’ because it doesn’t break their rules Girls aged between 12 and 16 years old created a ‘pact to die by suicide’ They were part of a chat group that described its participants as a Suicide Squad The girls were … Read more
Police probe ‘murder-suicide’ as armed officers find dead woman, in her 50s, in flat in Dorset before discovering body of man in house seven miles away Detectives believe woman killed at house in Weymouth by a man who then fled Investigations led officers to another house in Portland, some 20 minutes away Armed police seen … Read more
Online fashion retailer Boohoo sold the same products for different prices across a number of its fashion brands, a probe revealed. Price disparities include selling a coat for £89 at Oasis with the same product listed as £65 at Dorothy Perkins. Another product was being sold for £34 more via the Coast clothing website than … Read more