The Prole Star

A Bristol nurse who tweeted photos out of date PPE supplies still being given out to NHS staff has mysteriously vanished from the social media platform.

At 9.08am today, the account @MrBazJ, whose bio described him as a 'Proud NHS Nurse', posted images of PPE supplies he claimed were received today, clearly showing that original expiry dates, in 2016 and 2017, had been hidden with new stickers - one of which had just one day left, and one where even the new expiry date had passed 10 months ago.

He tweeted: "Are the #UKgov laughing at us? We need protection, not a flimsy attempt at shutting us up"

Just over an hour later, ITV journalist Harry Peet replied to the tweet, asking for an interview about the PPE situation. But shortly after, the tweet disappeared - then all the account's tweets disappeared - then the account itself vanished completely...

Of course, it may be that Baz has chosen to delete his account for some reason - possibly concern about potential repercussions at work, or medi...

Michael Gove began Sunday with an interview on the Andrew Marr Show, in which he smoothly stated:

"We had 10,000 tests yesterday...ahead of the deadline set by the Health Secretary"

He repeated the claim to the Ridge on Sunday programme on Sky shortly afterwards.

Good news, you might think? But it wasn't true.

The government's own figures for the period show that 127,737 tests had been carried out, up from 120,776 the previous day - a rise of just 6961.

And not only is today's daily tests figure not 10,000 - it isn't even as many as the number of tests carried out in the three days preceding it - the closest the number has got to 10,000 was last Friday with 8911.

Doubtless there will be some excuse trotted out about delayed figures - or indeed 'confusion' which is apparently the reason the government ignored an offer of 25,000 ventilators.

But the fact remains; at the exact time the official government figures were being finalised, a government spokesman  was telling the British public somet...