Businessman admits to pocketing millions from Thurrock council Liam Kavanagh used taxpayers’ cash to fund life of luxury and ‘honestly believed he was entitled to the money’

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BREAKING: Liam Kavanagh admits to pocketing millions from Thurrock council

The businessman used taxpayers’ cash to fund a life of luxury and ‘honestly believed he was entitled to the money’

Inside the £64bn pharma deal that could cost more lives than Covid With the NHS on its knees, the UK has struck a secretive new drugs deal. But how was it made – and what will it really cost?

🚨 We can reveal the true cost of the UK-US pharma deal is nearly £64bn, NOT the £1bn the government claims.

Researchers predict 330,000 excess NHS deaths by 2036 – that's more than the first two years of Covid.

Parliament hasn't seen the deal.
Freedom Of Information requests refused.

She thinks bad medicine killed her daughter. Six years on, she’s… Four children died after being given cancer drugs made by a company whose medicines are still exported around the world

Valery isn’t the only one – but little has happened in the past six years to provide answers for bereaved families

And the medicine Valery was given is still being exported around the world …

Valery had been responding well to treatment for leukaemia, when she arrived at a clinic in Colombia for her next injection

But four days after taking the medicine, she fell into a coma that she never woke up from

Kenna said he deeply regretted not paying Media Stream AI employees, and that the company had recently contacted both of them to start settling unpaid wages

He also said he was sorry to anyone affected by his previous companies closing, but disputed that anybody was owed tens of thousands of pounds

MSAI: We can't find Chris Kenna’s ‘sovereign AI’ data centres Chris Kenna’s Media Stream AI has failed to pay its engineers and its crown jewel is an empty building

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Manchester entrepreneur Chris Kenna says he’s built a network of data centres across the UK

Well we couldn’t find any

What we did find, though, is that his company has failed to pay its engineers and its crown jewel is an empty building...

MSD told us its medicines deliver “cost-effective health benefits for patients in the UK”

Big Pharma’s biggest seller: how one drug makes more money than… Major new project reveals the aggressive strategies used by MSD to make billions from a drug many desperate patients can’t afford

Our year-long project exposes the power-plays that keep both price and profit high

We lift the lid on a system that leaves health services paying over the odds – and patients priced out

Keytruda: what’s the true cost of the world’s bestselling cancer drug? We reveal how the bullish tactics of a pharma giant have left taxpayers spending over the odds for its life-saving medicine

We have taken part in a major global investigation led by the @icij.org to reveal how US pharma giant MSD has employed aggressive but legal tactics to ensure the life-saving cancer drug Keytruda continues to bring in big money

Every year tens of thousands of children are caught in the middle of family court disputes as their parents fight over custody arrangements

But what happens when trust breaks down and the system meant to protect the children becomes part of the problem?

We checked and there are no such data centres. Our friends @manchestermill.bsky.social visited the supposed Salford location – it’s just a vacant retail unit

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We found Chris talking about his data centres on a podcast:

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NEW: British tech entrepreneur Chris Kenna says he has built cutting-edge AI data centres across the UK

We can’t find them...

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A dodgy drug-maker and corporate perks: how UK health aid is really… British International Investment has funnelled millions in public aid money to scandal-ridden companies

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Rather than closing global gaps in access to quality healthcare, we’ve uncovered that our tax money is being channelled into scandal-hit companies – at a time when the UK aid budget is already shrinking

Meet the restaurant boss who flouted judges’ orders for years Jason Wells’ restaurant chain has cheated workers, lost 21 tribunal claims – and not paid a single one

When one employee threatened to take Wells to court, he apparently laughed in their face

He got away with it. Between 2021 and 2025, the company that ran his Antipodea restaurant chain lost 21 claims at an employment tribunal – and it appears that he hasn't paid a single one

“I’ll smash your f****** teeth down your throat!”

The words of the ever-charming Jason Wells, during a road rage incident that went viral in 2015

A decade later, we’re exposing him for owing ex-employees tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid wages – despite being ordered to pay

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: How we uncovered the true cost of illegal children’s homes. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. An increasing number of vulnerable young people across the country are being placed in children’s homes that are not regulated by Ofsted – which is against the law. In 2024 alone, nearly 800 children ...

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Join us this evening to hear more from the reporter leading our coverage of illegal children's homes 👇

An urgent wake-up call on the national scandal of illegal children’s… Was a vulnerable 15-year-old left at the mercy of abusive criminals because a council was trying to cover its back?

Bureau Editor @garethtbij.bsky.social has called this investigation “An urgent wake-up call over the national scandal of illegal children’s homes”

He added: “There can be no starker example of the failings of our social care system”

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Pictured: Liam Ramsay and Stephen Hurst

One – called Liam Ramsay – had neglected an injured child in a previous job

The other – Stephen Hurst – was a highly-decorated army sniper nicknamed ‘The Taliban Terminator’

Both are now serving prison sentences

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: How we uncovered the true cost of illegal children’s homes. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. An increasing number of vulnerable young people across the country are being placed in children’s homes that are not regulated by Ofsted – which is against the law. In 2024 alone, nearly 800 children ...

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This morning, we published an investigation into how two ex-soldiers plied a 15-year-old with alcohol and abused her in an illegal children’s home

Tomorrow we'll be hearing from the reporter who wrote this story, our Bureau Local editor, and two guest speakers on this subject

Antibiotics are commonly used on farms to combat the spread of disease that can cost animals their health – and farmers their money

But their use has been linked to the rise of drug-resistant “superbugs” that contaminate food, make people sick and are increasingly hard to treat

UK farmers lobbied government over controversial antibiotic use Union called for a rejection of EU’s stricter rules despite rising concerns over drug-resistant superbugs

Farming chiefs lobbied the UK government in a bid to avoid stricter rules around the use of antibiotics on livestock farms

Documents we’ve obtained show that the National Farmers Union’ urged officials not to adopt tighter regulations in talks with the EU over a new trade deal for animal products 👇

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NEW: Two ex-soldiers were entrusted to look after a 15-year-old in an illegal children’s home

Instead, they plied her with alcohol and abused her

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So what next? Our findings raise fresh concerns about standards in the Polish poultry industry, and we'll monitor action taken by politicians in both Brussels and Warsaw

Poland’s poultry ‘ghost farms’ present threat of undetected disease Almost 1,000 industrial-scale poultry farms may be operating outside EU rules – and shipping chicken around the continent

Unlicensed farms mean weaker oversight, riskier practices, and potential threats to public health

EU law requires farms with over 40,000 birds to hold special environmental permits – yet we found that almost half are missing from official government lists