A prolific swindler has been jailed for assuming the identity of a dead man to illegally claim almost £100,000 in benefits. Robert Lewis, 61, had a false driving licence and National Insurance number in the name of Mark Shales, a court heard. He was paid around £20,000 a year through a combination of benefits from Exeter City Council and the Department for Work and Pensions. But it turned out that Mr Shales had died in Jersey in 1995 aged 33....

Following a week when the Conservatives were publicly outed for institutional racism and systematic poverty peddling the cartoon doing the rounds on social media depicted crowds of people gawping at the royal family's latest arrival as a homeless baby goes unnoticed on the street. With the political arena reaching fever pitch over the upcoming months it comes as a poignant reminder of how the big issues are easily buried in Britain, and for every piece of doomsday legislation that lies...

Students at a university are clashing over LIBRARY seats - as they battle to finish their dissertations. Undergraduates are reporting seeing furious rows over chair availability as deadlines approach. University of Bristol student Rob Angel tweeted after seeing two fellow student clash over a seat in the uni's Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL). He wrote: "Just seen a full blown argument between two students over a seat in the library. The end is near!" And the Bristol University Library's...

A top QC took £75 from his chamber's funds to pay for private treatment when his daughter got a splinter in her finger, an employment tribunal heard. And when fellow barrister Karen Gillard leaked the story about Anthony Metzer, QC, to website Legal Cheek she was sacked, the hearing was told. Miss Gillard, deputy treasurer at Goldsmith Chambers, told the tribunal how Mr Metzer would employ family members and their friends and pay them more than other interns. She said...

A professional rubbish remover has been jailed for repeatedly dumping builders' waste. Robbie Frank Johnston, 32, had a licence to collect commercial waste but he illegally disposed of it in picnic areas and bridleways. The huge mounds of rubble included carpets,baths, mattresses, and garage doors which were left to rot. But much of the waste was traced back to residents who identified Johnston and even provided photographic evidence of the van he used. He was tracked via the DVLA in...

A councillor who walked into a police station to report a serious crime was arrested and locked up - in a case of mistaken identity. Cllr Afzal Shah is a member of his local Police and Crime panel and Labour councillor for the second-most ethnically diverse ward in his city. But when he walked into his local police station to report a crime on behalf of constituents - officers nicked him for an alleged offence of making threats of violence....

The Definition of Nearshore Software Development Remote software development by definition means remote collaboration with customers. In IT the term Nearshoring is associated with outsourcing companies, often located in other countries. Nearshore software development allows the company to reduce the cost of implementing its ideas. Basically, the lower development cost using Nearshoring is related to the lower salary in the country where the outsourcing company is located, in contrast to the payment in the country where the customer is located....

Tonight Liverpool face Roma in the Semi-finals of the Champions League, the first English side for a number of years to get to this stage. The game is also a rematch of the 1984 final, when Liverpool beat Rome, in Rome. Many people will remember Liverpool keeper Bruce Grobbelaar’s shaky leg heroics on the penalty shoot out. Football aside, Liverpool Manager Jurgen Klopp has another European fascination…Brexit. Speaking to the Guardian he said that Britain should hold a second referendum...

The rollout of universal credit has resulted in an unprecedented rise in demand for food banks in the UK, according to a report from the Trussell Trust. The network of 428 food banks distributed more than 1.3 million emergency parcels for three days' worth of food over the last 12 months, a 13 per cent increase compared to the previous year. They said an increasing number of people — 28 per cent of all referrals — were going to their food...