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Below-zero temperatures recorded across GreeceOn Sunday morning, Seli, a northern village in the Veria municipality, hit a bone-chilling minus 4.8 degrees Celsius, according to the National Observatory of Athens on meteo.gr.Elsewhere in the country, snow and sub-zero temps were the norm.Monday promises a slight warm-up, with island temperatures reaching 19 degrees Celsius.
Calls grow for reduction on speed limitsIn view of the death of six people in seven road accidents over 24 hours from Thursday through to Friday, activists are calling for stiffer penalties and reduction of speed limits.SOS Traffic Crimes, set up by relatives of traffic victims, has been pushing for a change in the legal framework, as currently road accidents are legally designated a misdemeanor or manslaughter. “Right now in the city the speed limit is 50 km/h. To be convicted of a felony if you kill someone you must be driving over 90 km/h,” says Manolis Stavroulakis, whose child was killed in a road accident in 2005 and who has since then dedicated himself to the prevention of traffic accidents.“With a limit on the national highway of 130 km/h, if the perpetrator of a traffic accident drives at 190 km/h, he is tried for a misdemeanor. He will only be charged with a felony if he drives faster. But if there is a collision at over 190 kilometers per hour, the victim will not even be found,” he stressed.Relatives of the victims have repeatedly called for the speed limit in the city to be dropped to 30 km/h.
Michelle Mone admits she lied and lied again and stands to benefit from £60m PPE contract profitBut the defiant peer insists: ‘I can’t see what we have done wrong’ Former Tory peer Baroness Mone has admitted she lied and lied again as she conceded she stands to benefit from £60million in profit over a PPE contract at the height of the Covid crisis.She said she was “sorry” for publicly denying her links to the firm involved, which is being investigated by the National Crime Agency.However, a defiant Baroness Mone added: “I don't honestly see there is a case to answer. I can't see what we have done wrong.”She claimed she was not trying to “pull the wool” over anyone’s eyes and that she and her husband had been made scapegoats on the issue.In an interview with the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, she claimed her life had been “destroyed” by allegations about their PPE profits, even though “we've only done one thing, which was lie to the press to say we weren't involved”.She said that was “not a crime”, adding, “No one deserves this.”Both admitted that a 30 per cent profit had been made on the contract, around £60 million. But she denied she had bought a yacht with the money and insisted the cash was her husband’s money.“It’s not my yacht, It’s not my money,” she said. “That cash is my husband’s cash."PPE Medpro was awarded government contracts worth more than £200 million to supply personal protective equipment after she recommended it to ministers.The Department of Health and Social Care has since issued breach of contract proceedings over the 2020 deal on the supply of gowns.Millions of gowns supplied by the company were never used by health services.Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden said there were “no favours or special treatment” involved in PPE procurement and said it was “categorically not the case” that cronyism was involved in the “VIP lane”.
Christian mother and daughter shot dead by Israeli sniper in church grounds in Gaza CityNahida and her daughter Samar were killed in 'cold blood' inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza, where Christian families have taken refuge
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