Hospital trusts in Merseyside have been paying hundreds of thousands of pounds for gas supplied by Russian state owned company Gazprom - prompting 'urgent discussions'.
The firm and its subsidiaries will be familiar to many from its sponsorship of football's UEFA Champions League, which was cancelled in the wake of Russia's bloody invasion of Ukraine.
While the Russian parent company has been sanctioned by the government, its UK subsidiary, Gazprom Energy, was paid hundreds of thousands of pounds by NHS trusts, mainly in the North West, in the past financial year to supply local hospitals with gas.
