News

UK consumers are being put at risk of fraud because banks are “seriously lagging behind international competitors” when it comes to security. New research has revealed UK financial services organisations are failing to invest and not keeping up with digital investment seen in other sectors. While other countries are taking a lead in facial recognition, social media data and automated electronic data capture to ID customers and improve the customer experience, British-based banks are stuck in the dark age. A...

Acrimonious splits bring out the worst in people. With emotions running high, it’s not unusual for individuals going through a divorce to feel aggrieved about the idea of sharing anything. Financial settlement is one of the most contentious areas of divorce, along with child custody. When a marriage or civil partnership breaks down, both sides can feel they have a genuine right to money and assets. But, selling assets, transferring assets or hiding them to stop your estranged partner getting...

The family of a mother have hit out at what they claim is the "sorry" state of the NHS after she was forced to wait SEVEN hours before doctors treated her broken back following a fall at home. Marion Nash, 61, slipped and took a tumble from the top rung of a ladder while clearing her back garden on Monday after the carnage of the 'beast from the east'. She was left writhing in pain after fracturing her spine in...

Police are investigating letters which are being circulated instructing people to play a "punish a Muslim" game - including throwing ACID at them. Officers are probing the disgusting letter which has a 'points' system for carrying out disturbing acts. Police in Bradford have acknowledged they are investigating reports of letters with suggestions to cause harm to members of the Muslim community on April 3. Councillor Riaz Ahmed, a Lib Dem in Bradford, West Yorks., said he received the letter to...

The Labour Party is considering a policy to tax self-service checkouts in supermarkets - because they rob till workers of their jobs. The motion was approved by the St Ives Constituency Labour Party at a meeting in January. Members argued that a levy should be imposed on supermarkets because the loss of checkout jobs removes tax and National Insurance contributions to the government. Kate Shilson, secretary of the St Ives Constituency Labour Party, defended the idea and claimed it had...

Brighton council has set every Daily Mail commentator's eyes bulging

Stanley Chase, 72, used a plant nursery where he was listed as an active director and secretary as a cover for a cannabis factory

Labour gained a shock by-election victory in Rochester West last night in a ward seen by many as a Conservative safe seat. Alex Paterson took 47.5 per cent of the vote in Medway, gaining 26.5 points on the Tories who managed to secure just 39.5 per cent of the vote following the resignation of Kelly Tolhurst (Con). Cllr Paterson said he was convinced Labour could win the seat, even though the ward delivered two Conservative councillors at the last election in 2015....

The US launched its threatened hefty steel and aluminium tariffs despite 100 Congress men writing to the President warning that this would precipitate a trade war and global economic disaster. Donald Trump signed an order meaning US steel imports now face a 25% tariff and aluminium 10%. Trump exempted neighbouring Canada and Mexico, and hinted that "flexibility and cooperation" would be shown to friendly countries. The UK will be hit hard. 15% of our steel exports go the US. With...