Jon Ironmonger
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Exclusive: The Government has incinerated or written off £1.4 BILLION worth of Covid PPE, provided by one supplier in the summer of 2020 - it is the single most wasteful public contract of the whole pandemic. Thread 1/
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Protestors have pushed over barriers surrounding the Dorchester Hotel in central London chanting “shame on you” and calling for a boycott of the Sultan of Brunei’s businesses
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Abby Lampe’s victory and post-race interview are an incredible 22 seconds of cheese rolling coverage
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Trump's latest assessment of our journalism:
CNN: "fake news"
Buzzfeed: "a failing pile of garbage"
BBC News: "there's another beauty"
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First image of Rock Hyrax triplets born at Chester Zoo. Current condition: chillin' on mum.
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BREAK: The CPS has authorised Herts Police to charge Met Police officer David Carrick with a further 12 offences, including two counts of rape. In total, the defendant is now charged with 41 offences against 11 women between 2003 and 2020.
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However, since winning the Government contract they have purchased a £30m seafront villa in Barbados, a yacht, a £6m house in the south of England and Keysoe International Equestrian Centre in Bedfordshire. 9/
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This reverse-doorstep by John Sweeney on a Russian TV reporter is an absolute thing of beauty
"They've come to doorstep us, but they've done it so incompetently they're walking away - it's really quite pathetic"
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Last July a massive illegal dump of Full Support’s PPE was found in the New Forest. We’ve seen documents which show it had been re-sold by the government - auctioned off for cheap to a third-party private company. It was considered a fire risk and eventually cleared. 5/
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Full Support Healthcare, a company of 25 staff based in Wellingborough, won orders totalling £1.8bn for aprons, masks and gowns. But after repeated FOI requests, the Dept for Health & Social Care’s PPE procurement partner, SCCL, revealed almost all of it will never be used. 2/
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The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, refusing to answer my question this morning about the security of NHS computer systems.
#CyberAttack
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And the aftermath, as Jeremy Corbyn supporters accost Peter Tatchell outside the Methodist Hall.
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Like a bit of a mug, a few weeks ago I fell for a whopper of a parcel delivery text scam and ended up having a wild conversation with the fraudster behind it. Thread. TLDR: It doesn’t end well. Video below. 1/
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The company met the terms of the contract, quickly supplying high quality PPE, as per previous pandemics. So why wasn’t its stock used? We put that question several times to the government and never got an answer. 3/
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In 2022 the Dept for Health said £85m worth of Full Support PPE wasn’t used, which is approx 6% of the true figure. The Conservative Party also failed to respond to requests for comment. 4/
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The Dept for Health continues to store about 800m items of Full Support PPE (approx 40% of what was delivered) that will never be used in care settings and is basically sitting in warehouses pending incineration. £100m+ of taxpayers’ money has likely been spent on its storage. 6/
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Speaking outside the court, WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson, described the conditions of Julian Assange’s detention as “shameful” and accused the CIA of attempting to spy on his legal team
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Lovely gesture by Amazon to send my four-year-old an ACTUAL CHAINSAW instead of the toy he’d asked for
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Fantastic work by
@AnimalsAsia
who rescued Yen today from illegal wildlife traffickers in Vietnam. Unfortunately endangered moon bears are still being trapped and sold to awful bear bile farms
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It’s impossible to know what profits the couple have made because they based their business offshore in Jersey in 2021 for privacy reasons. They continue to pay all UK tax. 8/
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Full Support Healthcare was founded by a former nurse, Sarah Stoute. Her husband Richard Stoute is a co-director. There is no suggestion they or the company acted improperly. 7/
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You can read the full story here, including with responses from Labour and the Lib Debs:
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To whoever was on the BBC’s network news desk this morning and took a 14 second phone call from a one-year-old watching Hey Dugee and repeatedly saying “hiyaaaaaa”, my apologies
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EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has seen video evidence which shows for the first time that UK livestock is being shipped to the Middle East and slaughtered. Welfare standards are basically non-existent in third countries. Footage obtained by
@AnimalsInt
and the German
@AWF_Official
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Good mate of mine is laying low with a bad cold and his wife keeps calling it the ‘Man Variant’
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Already a huge crowd in Parliament Sq and many thousands of people yet to arrive. Could be a squeeze.
#PeoplesMarch
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Members of Extinction Rebellion, the climate awareness group, have thrown buckets of fake blood across Whitehall
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Excl: The UK’s biggest supplier of unused Covid PPE has claimed £1.4 billion of its stock may have been incinerated or written off by the government because it was left to spoil in shipping containers.
1,000s of containers of PPE became stuck at Felixstowe in 2020.
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Still thinking about the vox pop we did in Northampton yesterday and the chap who said he wasn't afraid of Coronavirus because he'd eaten plenty of worms as a child
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Personal news: happy to say I’ve made my misty on-screen debut as a senior journalist/reporter at BBC Look East
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Meanwhile in Liverpool... who needs nightclubs when you can just join the ride and rave?
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Two weeks after our investigation into claims the now ex-leader of West Northants Council punched, choked, and spat at five women, Jonathan Nunn remains a Tory councillor and the party has refused to comment. So what say his colleagues at their AGM last night?
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Slightly hungover at the top of the soft play and the only way out seems to be down this narrow yellow tube
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CORBYN FIXES PARTING ON THE LEFT WHAT?
Corbyn fixes a supporter's hair before taking a selfie
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Peter Tatchell has just disrupted a Jeremy Corbyn speech on human rights in Westminster, calling for action in Aleppo.
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My full story here:
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Some photos of a huge fire in Parkgate, Cheshire tonight. The wind is fanning the flames towards The Front and police are evacuating nearby houses
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BREAKING: I understand the Home Office is about to pull plans to house up to 200 asylum seekers in pre-fab accommodation next to Yarl’s Wood IRC. The proposed camp had attracted intense criticism from local council and religious leaders.
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Britain doesn’t export animals to slaughter for third countries. So why and how are UK cattle getting to the Middle East?
The answer is they are being re-exported from Spain, which takes calves from the UK and Europe and fattens them up first on farms like this in Catalonia. 6
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Somebody told me that Twitter LOVES baby pictures, so say hello to this little belter - my newborn - Oliver Lawrence Ironmonger.
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The rear end of a giant pig is being inflated outside of the BBC.
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In complete admiration of the five courageous women who spoke to me for this investigation. One of them, Maria, said that for years a feeling of shame prevented her from coming forward. But allegations of domestic violence should always be heard.
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The
@MailOnline
headline reads "we're from Europe" but the migrants say they're from "Iraq and Kuwait"... explain?
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In awe of NHS workers after visiting
@LandDHospital
yesterday. In this clip from
@AndyMeeson
's and my report, the Medical Director
@roundaboutdave
tells us he is "fearful for the future" as they prepare for a 'super-surge' of Covid-19 patients...
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Two TV firsts for me yesterday:
First live on the Six ✅
First live in shorts ✅
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Charity workers filmed this bullock - another from the UK - on a truck in the Spanish port of Cartagena in July. It was later loaded on a vessel heading to Libya.
@ciwf
says animal practises in North Africa are among the cruellest in the world. 4
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Tonight’s remote office was the floor of a disused McDonald’s drive-through. Hope everyone had a nice evening
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A car has crashed through the railings at Buckingham Palace. Unconfirmed reports it was an Uber driver
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Supporters of Julian Assange awaiting his extradition hearing and possible appearance at Westminster Magistrates this morning. He’s wanted in the US to face allegations of computer hacking
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Spontaneous outdoor praying yesterday evening. It followed a number of protests led by families of the
#GlenfellTower
victims
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EXCLUSIVE: Yarl’s Wood has ceased to function as a removal centre for women and has been completely repurposed as a short-term holding facility to accommodate recent migrant arrivals, the BBC can reveal. New by me:
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At this farm in June investigators filmed many calves from the UK. One was sick with breathing problems, likely brought on by the stress of the journey [these are weeks old, unweaned animals]. It had been dragged outside of its pen and left to die because of its low value. 7
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Some special moments at the Liverpool Victory Parade but consideration needs to go to this image of a bloke up a ladder in a mankini and socks
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EXCLUSIVE: A leaked, major report has found the five surviving leaders of the Jesus Army, the so-called Apostles, covered up widespread child abuse allegations and colluded with sexual offenders. The Church and all of the men refused my requests for comment.
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Took the kids to Chicken World and it was the thrill ride we all expected
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New evidence the EU's exported farm animals are being cruelly mistreated. My report for
@VictoriaLIVE
in collaboration with
@ciwf
Animals are 'suffering and dying' while in transit across Europe, amid a booming livestock trade.
More:
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The bullock on the floor of this slaughterhouse in Lebanon in August has UK ear-tags. It has travelled thousands of miles in its short life to be killed in the most dreadful way. People may find the video in my next tweet distressing. 2
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Break: The leader of West Northants Council, Jonathan Nunn, has resigned. It follows our investigation this morning into allegations he assaulted and abused five different women. In a statement he said the story had become "a huge distraction to him and the work of the council."
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For ages I’ve been investigating the dark world of the Jesus Army; an utterly corrupted, religious “cult” based in Northamptonshire, that has damaged the lives of hundreds of people. It’s been a privilege to meet many former members and hear their stories.
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Animals spend days at sea travelling from Spain to Libya or Lebanon. The most reliable studies suggest death is commonplace in crowded livestock containers due to thirst, diseases, overheating etc. This photo shows cattle crowding around a drinker en route to Israel in 2016. 5
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Steps of the Treasury awash with fake blood this morning after
#ExtinctionRebellion
activists hosed it down with a fire engine
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Environmental activists in Harefield have clashed with HS2 security after access was apparently blocked to their camp’s water supply.
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So the due date of our second child is June 30th and it looks almost unavoidable that he or she will have to be called Backstop
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This scam is VERY common - maybe 60% of us have received at least one of these texts in the past year according to Which? And perhaps 2% of those people have lost money.
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Good to see Stella Nyanzi released, albeit injured, from jail in Uganda for the 'crime' of calling President Museveni a "pair of buttocks".
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Bellway Homes promote themselves as a 5-star builder, but residents of one if its new build estates in Cambs say they've endured almost endless snagging issues, including collapsing staircases and recurrent major leaks. By me:
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Besotted with my mum’s Welsh collie, Rosie, the very goodest of doggos
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Excited to be starting a short secondment as a network correspondent in the Midlands today, covering the irreplaceable
@philmackie
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Have to admit, I didn’t expect to rescue a chicken from the sea last night
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First ever pint down the pub with Oli. He's on the expressed milk though, lightweight.
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Lovely week on the Wirral, finally got to HUG MY MUM again
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The computer failure at LAS meant hundreds of emergency calls on the busiest night of the year had to be processed by pen and paper.
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Latest aerial pictures of a forensic search by GMP investigating the Manchester Arena attacks, at the Pilsworth landfill site in Bury.
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The London Ambulance Service tell me their computer system went down between 1230 and 5.15 this morning, delaying emergency response times.
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NEW: The wife of a Tory councillor has been charged with publishing material to stir up racial hatred after posting about setting fire to migrant hotels. Lucy Connolly, who works as a childminder in Northampton, will appear before magistrates tomorrow morning.
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When the press office asks if you still need a response five days after your initial deadline
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Two months ago I reported on the horrific journeys of UK animals to cruel slaughterhouses in the Middle East. The Government’s proposal to ban exports of livestock for slaughter and fattening is momentous, and follows a decades-long, determined campaign by animal charities.
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has seen video evidence which shows for the first time that UK livestock is being shipped to the Middle East and slaughtered. Welfare standards are basically non-existent in third countries. Footage obtained by
@AnimalsInt
and the German
@AWF_Official
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Incredibly moving display in Parliament Sq to mark the start of the UN Migration summit.
#lifejacketlondon
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Jack Merritt’s friend, Marc Conway, has described Cambridge Uni’s decision to axe the Learning Together programme as ‘scapegoating’ and ‘victim blaming’ in his first TV interview
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Richard begins asking for the answers to some of my personal security questions, and suddenly a thought - am I being scammed again? The number he’s using matches my bank’s. But I’m suspicious and ask to call him back.
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Today I learnt it's impossible to style out a nose swab. Thanks to
@UniNhantsNews
@NorthantsPH
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