the department for health and social care said, "we have been working tirelessly to deliver ppe to protect.7 billion items delivered so far and 32 billion items ordered." "all ppe products are quality assured and only distributed if they are safe to use." the government has been challenged on the money wasted in the rush to get ppe — the problem is, we still don't know the details of around £3 billion worth of spending because the government hasn't published the details yet. lucy manning, bbc news. a nurse has appeared in court in cheshire charged with the murders of eight babies and the attempted murders of ten others. lucy letby, who's 30, was arrested following an investigation at the countess of chester hospital. she appeared on a video link from a police station and was remanded in custody. 0ur north of england correspondent judith moritz has more. lucy letby once posed while cradling a baby for the camera. she told her local paper that she loved nursing infants, seeing them progress, and supporting their families. now she's charged with murdering babies who were in special care. sitt

in a statement, the company said, "pestfix delivered these products to the department for health and social caretment for health and social care said, the government has been challenged on money wasted in the rush to get ppe — the problem is, we still don't know the details of around £3 billion worth of spending because the government hasn't published the details yet. lucy manning, bbc news. in northern ireland, ministers have finally agreed to extend coronavirus restrictions for another week. 0ur ireland correspondent emma vardy is at stormont for us. and i say finally — because there's been a lot of disagreement about whether to extend them or not? they got there in the end but it wasn't pretty. it took four days of debate here and some really late nights and businesses really getting to the end of their tether, but what has been agreed is a weak extension of the current restrictions and in a week services like hairdressers and beauty salons will be able to open up beauty salons will be able to open up again along with unlicensed premises and then a week after that the rest of the hospitality

more political pressure — the following day, a health and safety executive official wrote, "that various colleagues in the department for health and social caret. " "not factually correct," the official wrote again. pestfix itself didn't want it known its isolation suits were not in hospitals but sitting in a warehouse, writing injune, "we do not want it to be made public knowledge that ppe from pestfix has not passed the hse inspection." in a statement, the company said, "pestfix delivered these products the department for health and social care said, the government has been challenged on the money wasted in the rush to get ppe — the problem is, we still don't know the details of around £3 billion worth of spending because the government hasn't published the details yet. lucy manning, bbc news. hairdressers officially reopened across england in july, but now the second lockdown means they've had to close their doors again. helen mulroy has been finding out the impact this new lockdown has had on some salons. three salons, three business owners, all feeling despair. big trouble if i'm honest. it frustrates me. i don't understand. a week into

the contract says that when the department for health and social care got the ppe, andersson would then. byjune, saiger had successfully delivered two ppe shipments to the uk. for helping with that, gabriel andersson was paid a consulting fee of $28 million. that's about £21 million. the court documents say saiger‘s contracts with the government were lucrative and mr andersson did very well from them. the uk put in more orders. there were three more contracts agreed which would yield yet more money for the subcontractor gabriel andersson. a dealfori million boxes of gloves, the consulting fee was more than $1.5 million. for another contract for 3 million boxes of gloves, the fee was more than $3.5 million. and a final contract for 10 million gowns for the uk government, and andersson would get $16 million. but it is claimed andersson didn't fulfil his role in these contracts and it led to delays delivering the ppe to nhs staff. the campaign group the good law project is planning to challenge the government in court over the deal. i don't blame saiger for making these vast profits. if go

the contract says that when the department for health and social care got the ppe, andersson would thenng fee. byjune, saiger had successfully delivered two ppe shipments to the uk. for helping with that, gabriel andersson was paid a consulting fee of $28 million. that‘s about £21 million. the court documents say saiger‘s contracts with the government were lucrative and mr andersson did very well from them. the uk put in more orders. there were three more contracts agreed which would yield yet more money for the subcontractor gabriel andersson. a dealfori million boxes of gloves, the consulting fee was more than $1.5 million. for another contract for 3 million boxes of gloves the fee was more than $3.5 million. and a final contract for 10 million gowns for the uk government and andersson would get $16 million. but it‘s claimed andersson didn‘t fulfil his role in these contracts and it led to delays delivering the ppe to nhs staff. the campaign group the good law project is planning to challenge the government in court over the deal. i don‘t blame saiger for making these vast profits. if

the contract says that when the department for health and social care got the ppe, andersson would thenune, saiger had successfully delivered two ppe shipments to the uk. for helping with that, gabriel andersson was paid a consulting fee of $28 million. that's about £21 million. the court documents say saiger‘s contracts with the government were lucrative and mr andersson did very well from them. the uk put in more orders. there were three more contracts agreed which would yield yet more money for the subcontractor gabriel andersson. a dealfori million boxes of gloves, the consulting fee was more than $1.5 million. for another contract for 3 million boxes of gloves the fee was more than $3.5 million. and a final contract for 10 million gowns for the uk government, and andersson would get $16 million. but it is claimed andersson didn't fulfil his role in these contracts and it led to delays delivering the ppe to nhs staff. the campaign group the good law project is planning to challenge the government in court over the deal. i don't blame saiger for making these vast profits. if governme

bring you the daily coronavirus figures, but they haven't been published yet by the department for health and social care will have to self—isolate for two weeks from saturday — after both countries were removed from safe travel list. restrictions in england and wales prohibit people from going abroad on holiday. overseas travel is only allowed for limited reasons including work and education. the former owner of the bhs retail chain, dominic chappell, has been jailed for six years for evading tax on earnings from his deal to take over the failed high street business. southwark crown court heard he didn't pay tax on £2.2 million of income, instead spending the money on a sports car, a yacht and a holiday in the bahamas. the premier league is likely to scrap the controversial pay—per—view method for seeing matches after this weekend. the £111.95 fee, which led to significant protests among fan groups, is expected to be dropped. to the us presidential election now. we thought we'd be bringing you the result today — but all we can say is that joe biden, the democratic challenger, is edging ever closer to th

the government also says the department for health and social care, only 0.49% of all purchased ppe hadto the morals of all of this, do you think that front line health providers should be put in a position where, you know, it is cut as fine as that? it is not only a moral commitment the government should mange the front line. purely operational. i can't imagine how difficult it is to organise things and keep them running, i think that is why the worry should not be on the stock, the worry should be on the treatment of the patient and on trying to learn the complications of the new challenges of the virus, in this case, but also, i think the government may bejust case, but also, i think the government may be just relying on sheer luck, because every trust was scrambling for ppe themselves and evenin scrambling for ppe themselves and even in the end things were well, which is disputable, this is not because the measures put in place by government were satisfactory, so i don't think that in this case, the end result can justify the absolutely clear shortcomings of the way that result was

department of health and social care got the ppe, gabriel gonzalez andersson would then be paid what was described as a consulting fee. byjune, michael saiger had successfully delivered two ppe shipments to the uk. forez andersson was paid a consulting fee of $28 million. that's about £21 million. the court documents say michael saiger‘s contracts with the government were lucrative and gabriel gonzalez andersson did very well from them. the uk put in more orders. there were three more contracts agreed which would yield yet more money for the subcontractor gabriel gonzalez andersson. ideal fori million boxes of gloves, consulting fee was more than $1.5 million. another contract for 3 million. another contract for 3 million boxes of gloves the fee was more than $3.5 million. and a final contract for 10 million gallons for the uk government and gabriel gonzalez andersson would get $16 million. but it is claimed gabriel gonzalez andersson didn't fulfil his role in these contracts and it led to delays delivering the ppe to nhs staff. the campaign group the good law project, is planning to challenge the government over the deal in court. i don't blame michael saigerfor making deal in court. i don't blame

and there is support for you. i suppose that leads nicely into the idea that the department of health and social care has said thesein some ways for people who have not been able to have co nta ct people who have not been able to have contact with loved ones. what is your view on these tests? any test in any situation, we need to think about several things and we need to think about who we are testing, why we are testing, and look at the actual process of the test and the actual benefits of the test, so in this situation, the specificity tells us that it is very good at differentiating who has and who does not have it in the test. it's not giving as many false positives, so it's not saying somebody has covid—19 when they don't very often. what we've also noted with these rapid tests is that the level of sensitivity, so picking up the level of sensitivity, so picking up when somebody actually does have the test is pretty good, and it's good specifically with people with a high viral rate, say what the researchers are saying is that the usefulness of the test is that it's good at picking up people who are likely to i