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BREAKING: Sean Clark, the chief finance officer behind the catastrophic investment policy which has left Thurrock Council with a near £500m budget gap, has resigned

🚨EXCLUSIVE Hacked information is being used as a weapon in Britain’s courts 🗡️ Read our latest reveal, with @thetimes thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-0…

🚨 BREAKING @thurrockcouncil has issued a S114 notice of financial distress... What does this mean? That it cannot balance its budget – and is effectively bankrupt ⬇️ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

BREAKING: Government has sued PPE Medpro, the company linked to Conservative peer Michelle Mone, for the full £122m it paid under the contract for gowns awarded via the VIP lane in June 2020. Company says it will "rigorously" defend the claim.

Thought you’d read the full story of Michelle Mone and PPE contracts? Not until you’ve read the latest from @david_conn. It’s full of extraordinary new details theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/d…

Yet more revelations about how Tory peer Michelle Mone lobbied for covid contracts - this time for a second company secretly connected to her husband theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/d…

A representative for Mone accused the neighbours of “making up lies”, adding: “Baroness Mone does not own a home in London and does not know any neighbours in London. Baroness Mone does not live in London.” thetimes.co.uk/article/044656…

Well deserved.

Finally, and hugely welcome – the new reporting rules for the family court reporting pilot are up on the @JudiciaryUK website: bit.ly/3ujhkVs

@louisetickle @JudiciaryUK Such an important move.

📢 Last night, Thurrock council's leader apologised for spending tens of thousands of pounds and three years fighting @TBIJ's requests for information on its billion-pound investment deals

3 years ago @Gareth_Davies09 spotted there was something fishy in Thurrock's accounts & asked to see the accounts. Thurrock refused & instead carried on putting a billion pounds on lame horses at the bookies. If they had been transparent this could never have happened #FOIA #foi

Latest on Thurrock disaster from @TBIJ suggests finance director ignored advice around investments. Is this the biggest scandal in local authority finances? thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-1…

Perhaps the biggest scandal in the mess that is Thurrock council is that @Gareth_Davies09 has reported on the scale of investments for two years. His reporting was not only ignored but the council also spent thousands on lawyers to stop him getting at full extent of problem.

The scale of the losses at Thurrock council are jaw dropping. Full details of the shocking and outrageous investments that have led to the biggest ever black hole in a council budget revealed by @TBIJ thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-1…

BREAKING: Thurrock Council reveals £500m black hole caused by failed investments - the biggest funding gap ever reported by a UK local authority thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-1…

The story my former colleague @Gareth_Davies09 has spent 2 years chipping away at. Thurrock hampered his work the whole way theguardian.com/society/2022/n…

And here’s latest on Michelle Mone investigation @guardian

More on peer Michelle Mone and HSBC report which froze accounts over “corruption” allegations relating to her links with PPE firm that she referred to government. Follows on from @david_conn’s reporting this week in @guardian

🔴 NEW INVESTIGATION Swimming in superbugs: MRSA and E coli found in British rivers 🔗 bit.ly/tbij-waterways