daniel sandford, thank you. of breaking the ministerial code over the funding of the downing street flat refurbishment. but the new adviser on ministerial interests, lord geidt, found the prime minister had "unwisely" allowed work to go ahead without "more rigorous regard" for how it would be paid for. 0ur political correspondent alex forsyth reports. when a newjob comes with a new pad, it is perhaps natural to want to put your stamp on it. good morning. the prime minister and his partner certainly did, refurbishing the downing street flat early last year to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds. but who paid became a problem. there were repeated questions. who initially paid for the redecoration of his downing street flat? he always insisted he had footed the final bill. he should know that i paid for the downing street refurbishment personally. it turns out he did, eventually. an investigation found there were initially plans for a trust to pay, but that fell through, so a tory donor then stumped up, before

daniel sandford has more.consequences of allowing a recently released, high—risk convicted terrorist travel alone to london. the battle on london bridge, with usman khan, who had just stabbed two people to death. saskia jones and jack merritt had been involved with learning together, a prison education organisation whose events khan had been attending. khan had been a difficult prisoner, involved in violence against other inmates and radicalisation. he had improved his behaviour but there was intelligence suggesting that he might go back to his old ways. the inquests into the deaths of saskia jones and jack merritt have heard that it was usman khan's probation officer, ken skelton, who authorised his trip to the learning together event. but today, he insisted that he didn't make that decision alone. he said that a mapper panel, a panel of experts responsible for public protection, had backed the decision. ken skelton told the jury that although there is no written record of the mapper experts positively agreei

daniel sandford has more.s consequences of allowing a recently released, high—risk convicted terrorist travel alone to london. the battle on london bridge, with usman khan, who had just stabbed two people to death. saskia jones and jack merritt had been involved with learning together, a prison education organisation whose events khan had been attending. khan had been a difficult prisoner, involved in violence against other inmates and radicalisation. he had improved his behaviour but there was intelligence suggesting that he might go back to his old ways. the inquests into the deaths of saskia jones and jack merritt have heard that it was usman khan's probation officer, ken skelton, who authorised his trip to the learning together event. but today, he insisted that he didn't make that decision alone. he said that a mapper panel, a panel of experts responsible for public protection, had backed the decision. ken skelton told the jury that although there is no written record of the mapper experts positively agre

daniel sandford has more.consequences of allowing a recently released, high—risk convicted terrorist travel alone to london. the battle on london bridge, with usman khan, who had just stabbed two people to death. saskia jones and jack merritt had been involved with learning together, a prison education organisation whose events khan had been attending. khan had been a difficult prisoner, involved in violence against other inmates and radicalisation. he had improved his behaviour but there was intelligence suggesting that he might go back to his old ways. the inquests into the deaths of saskia jones and jack merritt have heard that it was usman khan's probation officer, ken skelton, who authorised his trip to the learning together event. but today, he insisted that he didn't make that decision alone. he said that a mapper panel, a panel of experts responsible for public protection, had backed the decision. ken skelton told the jury that although there is no written record of the mapper experts positively agreei

daniel sandford is at the inquest now. icer was saying. well, ben, this is the second day of ken skelton's evidence here at the fishmonger all inquest, and he explained yesterday it was he who ultimately signed off as khan's trip to london which ended up with the deaths of saskia jones and jack merritt, but he said that it had come after lengthy discussions with a panel responsible for public protection. but today he was asked if he had been aware that mi5 had an open priority investigation into usman khan, who had recently been released from prison, and he said he didn't. he was asked, if he had known that, would it have twitched his antennae? he said it certainly would have done, had he been told that mis would have done, had he been told that mi5 had actually increased the priority of usman khan on his release from prison because of intelligence that he had been radicalising other prisoners and that he might possibly be planning an attack, he said no, and that if he had have known, it would have had a huge impact upon hi

daniel sandford has more.london. to travel alone to london. the battle on london bridge, with usman khan, who had just stabbed two people to death. saskia jones and jack merritt had been involved with learning together, a prison education organisation whose events khan had been attending. khan had been a difficult prisoner, involved in violence against other inmates and radicalisation. he had improved his behaviour but there was intelligence suggesting that he might go back to his old ways. the inquests into the deaths of saskia jones and jack merritt have heard that it was usman khan's probation officer, ken skelton, who authorised his trip to the learning together event. but today, he insisted that he didn't make that decision alone. he said that a mapper panel, a panel of experts responsible for public protection, had backed the decision. ken skelton told the jury that although there is no written record of the mapper experts positively agreeing to the trip, they had been aware of it and had not objected. "

daniel sandford, thank you very much.an see much more on that over the course of the afternoon on the bbc news channel. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz shafernaker. hello, and good afternoon, i am so delighted to bring you a forecast full of optimism, we have been advertising for days that the weather is set to improve and, indeed, it is, it will be increasingly sunny and warm. but not at the moment, there is a bit of a blip in the weather, across central and western areas of the uk. there is a weather front here and currently, it is stuck. the reason why it is stuck is because it is riding up against this area of high pressure and there are a number of weather fronts. pressure and there are a number of weatherfronts. and pressure and there are a number of weather fronts. and as they approach the high pressure, they slow down. think of the high pressure as a mountain so as a weather front approaches with a building area of high pressure, it tends to slow down. so what is going to happen with it? well, there

our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has the background to the case.committed to helping others. the man who murdered them was living under a curfew, having just come out of prison. he was also still being investigated by mi5. but still travelled alone to london to kill. convicted terrorist, usman khan, travelling to london alone on a train. only recently out of prison, there had been intelligence that he was planning an attack but the trip had been authorised. it ended with hand fighting on london bridgejust it ended with hand—to—hand fighting on london bridgejust outside fishmongers�* hall, while inside two young people, saskia jones and jack merritt, were dying. the inquest said the unacceptable management of khan and poor sharing of vital intelligence had contributed to their deaths. for those who hide behind the cloak of secrecy, to search their own conscience and review their own potential failings. however, it is beyond understanding and astonishing that not one of the agencies sufficiently considered the associated risk and therefore questioned

daniel sandford, bbc news, at fishmongers' hall.injured 3 french police officers, one of them seriously, has died. the attack took place in the city of nantes in the west of the country. the attacker fled the scene on foot, and hundreds of police officers were deployed to find him. the interior minister has confirmed he was a former prisoner, born and raised in france. it's the latest of a series of attacks on police in france recently, that has led to calls for tough sentences for those who injure officers. for the latest here's the bbc�*s hugh schofield in paris. there was an attack this morning at a police station where this man burst in with a blade of some kind and attacked the woman that is a municipal police officer, so a local police false for the suburb of nantes, hurt her, injured her quite seriously in her legs, and she is in hospital and being treated. i don't think her life was endangered. but then he seized her gun and had a weapon and it was a couple of hours later that he was faced, cornered, and there was a shoot—ou

our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, is outside the guildhall where the inquests took placee. jones and jack merritt were young saskia jones and jack merritt were young people with their lives ahead of them, both committed to helping others in their different ways. the man who murdered them was living under a curfew afterjust coming out of prison for terrorism fences. he was still being investigated by mi5 but still he managed to travel alone to london to kill. convicted terrorists, usman khan, travelling to london alone on a train. only recently out of prison, there had been intelligence that he was planning an attack but the trip had been authorised. it ended with hand fighting on london bridgejust outside fishmongers�* hall, while inside two young people, saskia jones and jack merritt were dying. the inquest said the unacceptable management of khan and poor sharing of vital intelligence had contributed to their deaths. for those who _ contributed to their deaths. igrr' those who hide behind the cloak of secrecy, to search their own conscience and review their own potentia

our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has followed the inquest throughout and joins me fromlso to answer some questions about how the state agencies had dealt with khan after his release from prison and they have come to the conclusion that there were omissions and failures in sharing of information by state agencies, m15 and counterterrorism policing, and there was also omissions and failures in the management of usman khan by probation. this has lasted seven weeks and has exposed a lot of failings by the agencies of the state. ., . ., , , ., state. convicted terrorist usman khan heading — state. convicted terrorist usman khan heading to _ state. convicted terrorist usman khan heading to london - state. convicted terrorist usman khan heading to london alone . state. convicted terrorist usman| khan heading to london alone on state. convicted terrorist usman i khan heading to london alone on a train, still considered very high risk and only recently out of prison. there had been intelligence that he was planning an attack, but the probation team who had approved the probation

daniel sandford reports. usman khan heading to london alone on a train — still considered very high risk and only recently out of prison. there'd been intelligence that he was planning an attack, but the probation team who'd approved the trip hadn't been told. it ended with hand—to—hand fighting on london bridge, just outside fishmongers' hall, while inside, two young people — saskia jones and jack merritt — were dying. both had been involved in the prisoner education organisation learning together that had been trying to help khan. jack merritt�*s parents told me the deaths were the result of an unforgivable failure by a system that was not fit for purpose. they had this hugely dangerous person and they lost sight of him being dangerous really from the beginning. with all that information, you would have thought that the authorities would have put in place a system to monitor and manage him effectively and keep the public safe, and they failed to do that. usman khan was jailed as a teenager for trying to set

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