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News 4^th November
A town house worth millions of pounds just collapsed in Chelsea.  No one was hurt but there was building work in in the basement.  Because of limited space, some rich people have been developing their basements and even lower basements.  The whole three stories of the house just collapsed.
They are still searching for people after the earthquake in Turkey.  So far 115 people are dead.  The effects were felt on the Greek islands and people died in Greece as well.  There are fault lines across Turkey, where the earth underneath is moving and these cause the earthquakes when the plates crush together.  In 1999, 18,000 people were killed in northern Turkey.
UK has been handing out a lot of contracts for PPE.  Looks like £45 million lost due to fraud.  The government paid up front for 5 million masks but they never arrived.  A company which is based in England had received £250 million from the Government but they arranged for another company in the British Virgin Island to send the masks.  The masks never arrived and probably did not exist and the money has disappeared.