All news by author: Andy Buckwell

Disposing of millions of units of personal protective equipment found to be unsafe for use during the Covid pandemic is costing taxpayers tens of thousands of pounds every day

BBC bosses have blown £169million chasing TV licence dodgers.They are paying logistics company Whistl and Royal Mail £33.8million a year for five ye

THE firm behind the Horizon software that led to hundreds of sub-postmasters being wrongly prosecuted is still being given government deals.Fujitsu vo

THE number of desperate patients forced to ditch the NHS and pay for medical treatment abroad has risen by a third since lockdown.Leading clinics acro

POLICE are spending £2.2million to kennel dangerous dogs as a ban on owning an XL Bully comes into effect this week.Forces are gearing up for an expe

TRASHING unusable PPE bought during the pandemic is costing taxpayers £116,000 every day, statistics have revealed.Officials oversaw the destruction

THE Ulez scrappage scheme has paid out £61million since it opened this year.Cars junked under the offer include Porsches, a Cadillac, Jaguars, BMWs,

The Home Office has had public failures including its inability to get a grip on the small boats crisis, including the shambles of its flagship policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

HS2 chiefs are to blow £10million on growing grass beside the line.Rail chiefs started seeking a seed supplier on October 13 days after the northern

MILLIONAIRE movie-maker Guy Ritchie has spent around £1.3million of his own cash to keep his pub running.Ritchie, 55, who was married to Madonna from

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his cabinet colleagues have taken 74 flights on the plush new aircraft since June last year with the shortest journey lasting just 28 minutes

A MAJOR government department is spending £200,000 on desks and chairs so a new generation of civil servants can work from home.The move involves the

PASSPORT Office bosses blew more than £10million on private consultants as thousands suffered costly delays for new travel documents.The advisers’