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1. Article · Aug 8, 2026 · Matthew Davis

   BBC snooped on staff emails 73 times last year (opens the original)

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   BBC investigators have accessed a record number of staff email accounts during one of the most turbulent periods in the corporation's history. Figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday show that in 2025 the broadcaster probed email accounts 73 times, compared with just 42 incidents the previous year. The rise was partly driven by a hike in the number of accounts being accessed due to internal leak inquiries. There were ten such incidents in 2025, double the number of 2024. The BBC refused to reveal

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2. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Matthew Davis

   Police on long-term sick leave costs taxpayer nearly £3million weekly (opens the original)

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   Record numbers of police are on long-term sick leave, with critics blaming poor management, rising levels of violence and increasing workloads for the problem. Home Office figures show that the equivalent of 3,358 full-time officers across 43 forces were absent through sickness, at a cost to the taxpayer of nearly £3 million a week. The figures do not include those who rang in sick on the day of the count, only those on long-term sick leave, which the Home Office defines as an absence of more th

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