Private Eye reported on 7 July. that Aziz, who by then had not been seen hosting nightly news programme "The West Country Tonight" for the past month, had been suspended for irregularities with her expenses, one of the irregular items apparently being a £5.75 bill for dry cleaning a child's top. According to the Daily Mirror the claims amounted to £200. It was later reported that she had initiated legal proceedings against her employers in response to the allegations, and had lodged complaints about four people at ITV West.