All news by author: Simon Murphy

Cygnet Health Care Ltd was hit with a £1.53m fine after pleading guilty to failing to provide safe care at one of its ­hospitals in 2019. Now it's emerged a director was paid £1.2m in 2021

David Beckham said he was 'proud' of his role as ambassador for the Qatar World Cup last year - but Amnesty International's Sacha Deshmukh criticised the football legend

Somalis have witnessed decades of conflict. The military regime of dictator President Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991 – plunging Somalia into a bloody civil war

The devastated couple want to see the Countess of Chester Hospital’s ex-medical director, Ian Harvey, grilled over claims that he could have stopped Letby’s killing spree sooner

Tony Chambers was CEO at the Countess of Chester Hospital and greeted Queen Camilla – then the Duchess of Cornwall – during a royal visit to the NHS facility in 2014

Work at the site was halted after subcontractor Michael Jones died on Monday, and Unite says Laing O’Rourke stopped its officers entering the site to freely speak to workers

Family-owned discount chain Wilko plunged into administration on Thursday after nearly 90 years and shareholders enjoyed millions while 12,000 people are facing potential redundancy

Philip Stephenson-Oliver was filmed watching as a pal appears to use a banknote to snort what is claimed to be cocaine in his bedroom at a house party on July 14 - before doing the same thing himself

ASC got the money during the pandemic to cover the salaries of workers, who are joining other firms in eight days of action that will spell misery for holidaymakers using Gatwick this summer

A new executive at under-fire Thames Water thinks people should be charged extra for watering their gardens even though she has a pool, a hot tub, a sauna AND six lavatories

A neighbour in Blackburn – where the Asda owners live at mansions in a gated complex – told how they spotted Zuber Issa in a black Rolls Royce and Mohsin at the wheel of a top-of-the-range Land Rover

Ian Marchant earns a fortune as chairman of the company that is leaking hundreds of millions of litres of water every day and has £14bn worth of debt

Stuart Harper wears a tie adorned with cannabis leaves and was once cautioned by police for growing weed, which he says helps treat his ADHD

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock was issued a £78 parking fine before he went on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, where he pocketed a staggering £320,000

Paul Carberry stabbed a father-to-be on a train five times and wounded another passenger - but Kate and William had no idea of his crimes when they met him at a primary school a year ago

The charity trust running Greenfields School, which takes pupils aged 3-18 and charges fees of up to £29,000, was handed £144,540 and £60,174 in grants

A damning Ofsted report said there were 'serious child protection allegations' at the home which is run by Action for Children - a charity backed by dozens of celebrities

Eight Conservative MPs, including Nigel Adams, James Daly and Crispin Blunt, and two Tory peers went on the trip to Corfu last month

Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat farm, which fans can see on his top rated Amazon show, has received more than £250,000 in government and EU subsidies in under three years

Tory grandee Lord Ashcroft controlled Medacs Healthcare when it was handed 10 NHS deals worth up to £53million between September 2021 and December 2022, contract notices have revealed

Parent company FirstGroup shelled out the millions in dividends last year while train passengers were facing delay after delay. The rail firm will fall under Government control at the end of the month

The final British evacuation flight from Sudan is due to leave the war-torn country tonight, but one NHS doctor said he knew three others who had difficulty getting to the airbase

When the new host was announced, Rajan praised Paxman, 72, as a 'giant of British culture' - but he hasn’t always been so gushing about his predecessor

Welsh Secretary David Davis - who has been accused of holding 'abhorrent' anti-gay views - stayed for free at a swanky hotel in Doha, along with Sports Minister Stuart Andrew, during last year's controversial World Cup

Prosecutors want to confiscate the property in Hampstead, London, after Arif Patel's conviction on Tuesday for a £97million fraud. The 55-year-old and his gang imported and sold knock-off designer gear