Kelly Earley

A POLICE CORDON is still in place at a property in Ballmena, Co Antrim after three family members were found dead at their family home on Monday. Police confirmed that the three people were related and found inside the property, adding there was no “ongoing risk” to the public and officers were not seeking anyone else in relation to the deaths. A pair of child’s sandals on a washing line at the scene in the Old Cullybackey Road area of Ballymena.

THE SCRAMBLE TO buy personal protective equipment (PPE) during the Covid pandemic saw the UK waste almost £10 billion (€11.72 billion) of taxpayers’ money, the official inquiry into the handling of Covid-19 has found. In the fifth report of her inquiry, Baroness Heather Hallett criticised the “vast” waste in pandemic procurement, amounting to £9.9 billion – two-thirds of the £14.9 billion (€17.46 billion) the UK and devolved governments spent on PPE.