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Catering firm Chartwells at centre of free school meals scandal says it will now include breakfast in lunch parcels for poor children - as £24.8bn parent company's links to Tory party emerge

Catering firm Chartwells has announced it will start including breakfast in free school meal deliveries in response to the fierce criticism of its meagre parcels.  The under-fire schools food provider has apologised and vowed to raise standards after parents railed against the paltry lunches it was sending their children.    Boris Johnson branded the boxes of seven-day supplies 'disgraceful' and told senior MPs the firm had been 'hauled over the coals'. As it attempted to win back confidence with angered families, Chartwells said it would include breakfast at no extra cost from January 25 until schools reopen.  The breakfast will include bloomer, bagel, butter, yoghurts, juice, milk, oats and fruit.   Chartwells is part of a £24.8billion parent company whose links to the Tory party were today revealed.  Until December this year millionaire Conservative donor Paul Walsh was the chairman of Compass and gave £10,000 to the party in 2010, Electoral Commission records show.

Trump supporter, 34, who swung from Senate balcony and sat in Pence's chair during Capitol riot hands himself in to Idaho police - after begging for forgiveness over 'heinous' events

The Idaho Trump supporter pictured swinging from the Senate balcony and sitting in the Vice President's chair during last week's Capitol riot has handed himself in.  Josiah Colt, 34, voluntarily surrendered to authorities Tuesday afternoon at the Ada County Sheriff’s Office, CBS2 footage shows.   Colt,  who runs his own digital marketing firm in Boise, had earlier apologized for his actions in a self recorded video after he was  was captured dangling from the balcony during the siege on the Capitol. He is charged federally with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, KTVB reports.   Colt is due back in court on January 19 after being released from jail.  In the clip taken before his arrest Colt said: 'My intentions were pure going there and I was just trying to show support and be patriotic. But it turned into something that I'm not proud of.'  The ima