A husband and wife who lived a lavish lifestyle after defrauding the NHS out of £3.4m have been stripped of assets totalling almost £600,000. Neil Wood, 42, and Lisa Wood, 41, used the money to fund expensive football tickets, Christmas presents and family holidays. Wood also organised lavish away days ...
You would think the banking industry would learn but sadly it appears not, according to a new report. The Adam Smith Institute, a leading think-tank, have said that the banking sector is an “accident waiting to happen.” The report has been published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the ...
Anyone who has ever been to university knows the first year is essentially a write-off from an academic point of view. You join clubs, you drink, you watch more Friends episodes than you read books and take an overtly laissez faire attitude to your degree in the knowledge that nothing you ...
A freedom of Information request shows that new welfare reforms are allowing the government to distort the true figures of those sanctioned on welfare, disability and in receipt of pensions The very latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) obtained by The London Economic in response to a ...
Labour MPs are warning to expect queues outside food banks this Christmas as universal credit changes threaten to push thousands of families below the poverty line. According to Citizens Advice benefit claimants are being plunged into debt with four in ten people having to wait more than six weeks to receive ...
Research shows more money is leaving Africa than entering - so is the West giving aid to Africa, or is Africa giving aid to the West? Is foreign aid an illusion? New accusations have been fielded that the Commonwealth could be nothing more than an ironically named intergovernmental organisation designed to maintain ...
Just hours after Liam Fox told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the Brexit deal with the European Union "should be one of the easiest in human history,” the second round of Brexit talks broke down. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier warned of “fundamental divergences." With the clock ticking and nearly ...
Tory MP and prominent Brexiteer Anne Marie Morris has been recorded saying that a Brexit no deal would be a "real n*****r in the woodpile" at a meeting of eurosceptics in Central London. The member of parliament for Newton Abbott was discussing what financial services deal the UK could struck with Brussels ...
By Professor Emeritus Mary Mellor, from University of Northumbria That's right there are two magic money trees. Both the state and the banks can create money out of thin air. States do this by having budgets. Despite the myths that have been told time and time again, states are NOT households ...