Lord Mandelson questioned by police | Bonus for GPs over 'fat' jabs | 'Miracle' womb transplant
Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Lord Mandelson spent around eight hours being questioned by police over alleged leaks of market-sensitive data to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The UK's pledged millions more support for Ukraine, four years on from Russia's invasion.
GPs are being given an incentive of £3,000 from the government to prescribe patients weight-loss jabs.
And a baby boy's become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother who received a womb transplant from a deceased donor.
Sophy and Wilf have the day's news in just 10 minutes.
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:09.3 | Lord Mandelson spent about eight hours being questioned by police over alleged links of market |
| 0:14.6 | sensitive data to the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:18.2 | The UK's pledged millions more of support for Ukraine, four years on from Russia's invasion. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello, you're listening to Cheeksheet, a 10-minute podcast on the day's news on Tuesday, the 24th of February. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Safie Rich. |
| 0:31.7 | And I'm Wilfred Frost, and the baby boy has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother who received a womb transplant |
| 0:38.9 | from a deceased donor. We'll have that for you. |
| 0:43.5 | So yesterday, Peter Mandelson was arrested. He spent around eight hours in police custody, |
| 0:52.2 | facing questions over his links to the paedophile financier |
| 0:55.3 | Jeffrey Epstein. So this was a dramatic moment in the ongoing saga around Jeffrey Epstein, |
| 1:02.9 | people that he knew, Lord Mandelson in particular, of course, as well. So he's a former Labour |
| 1:07.8 | Minister. He's been released on bail pending further investigation, |
| 1:11.5 | and he was detained on suspicion of misconduct in public office. So in other words, |
| 1:17.0 | this is over these allegations that he shared sensitive information with Geoffrey Epstein |
| 1:22.4 | while he was business secretary under Gordon Brown. |
| 1:25.8 | And we were both off last week when Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was arrested under suspicion of |
| 1:31.7 | the same potential offence. |
| 1:33.3 | This is what the Crown Prosecution Service says the offence is. |
| 1:37.7 | It's when a public officer acts in such a willful way to neglect to perform their duty and or willfully misconducts themselves |
| 1:47.0 | to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public's trust in the office without reasonable |
| 1:54.0 | excuse or justification. A lot of people have said or written in the last couple of weeks that |
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