katya adler, tone for these new beginnings. katya adler. many — tone for these new beginnings.defrauded in the government's bounce back loan scheme. now a bbc investigation can reveal the inside story of a criminal gang who stole more than £10 million of taxpayers' money. they laundered tens of millions more. after a final court case which ended today, a total of ten people have now been sentenced. our correspondent angus crawford has the details. bags full of cash. bundles of dirty notes. they even needed a safe. now after a series of court cases, the inside story of the gang that stole £10 million of taxpayers money. i've never seen anything like it. it is the biggest one i know of, it's the biggest one i've seen and it's probably going to be the biggest one we'll see for a long time. when covid shut down the economy, the chancellor announced the bounce back loan scheme. today, we announced a brand—new loan scheme... £50,000 on offer for small firms with few questions asked. the gang used a network of bogus companies to make hundreds of claims. ringleaders, artem terzyan and

chris mason, bbc news in paris. 0ur europe editor katya adler is in paris.he biggest significance, this meeting happened at all. it happened after five years of cancelled high—level summits, post—brexit sniping about migrants and vaccines and fishing rights. this was a very public resetting of relations between two important allies. and more than that, it felt like a public resetting of the uk relations with its wider european allies. the prime minister was very careful to say, the uk may have left the eu, but it hasn�*t left europe. think of the backdrop to today�*s meeting, russia�*s invasion to ukraine, the wider stability it is because, spiralling energy prices and rising inflation as well. these are challenges that europe�*s leaders think should be tackled together and the uk and france have the biggest military powers inside nato. across the channel, rishi sunak is seen as a brexiteer, but also as a pragmatist. today he was careful to address the president with a new tone after his predecessor liz truss, just this summer questioned whether emmanuel mac