Fallen star investor - who lost his clients a third of their money - investigated again for breaching @TheFCA rules bit.ly/4urB6L4 if he’s so good at it why not just sit quietly in the Caymans making himself rich - after paying his £46m fine of course.
New owners of Abbotsholme School tell staff to work for nothing as school and land separated and school now must pay to lease building back bit.ly/4v6ts9V initially VAT on fees was blamed for closure.
The City regulator claims Woodford and his latest venture W4.0 are in breach of the Financial Services and Markets Act
It just gets worse bit.ly/43PH3X5 babies, medics, journalists, scientists, children, surgeons, technicians.
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Secret owner sells house to secret buyer for secret amount. And it’s only leasehold. The Crown Estate actually owns the freehold. Transparency British style.
No more “beat their swords into ploughshares” - now it’s beating windmills into tanks bit.ly/3QpyrDy as environment spending to be cut to pay for weapons growth. Isiah 2:4 by the way.
Ground rents to be capped at £250 a year in 2027 bit.ly/4g5peun then phased out by 2067 as govt bows to pressure to bring it forward - that’s the plan but expect opposition in Parliament and after law passed strong legal challenges from freeholders
Stamp Duty is a bad tax bit.ly/4vGaqY0 it slows the economy, damages job mobility, puts homes out of reach in many parts of England (and rest of UK which all have their own versions). But it is easy to collect and hard to avoid.
Makes all that debt seem so worthwhile bit.ly/4dVIf18 living wage is minimum adult wage now £12.71 an hour. Half didn’t earn median pay and 30% of degrees offered no not economic return
Bailey v Farage fake video used by thieves to rob people bit.ly/4uuCrRb most of these frauds begin on social media. AI could easily be used to spot them and remove them before anyone sees them. But social media firms take the fees and wait for humans to report them
Jeweller tries to avoid inheritance tax on family business but tells i-paper “It feels like whatever you try to do there are challenges. It is just so unfair.”
The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron
The government must make reforms to the charge if it is serious about helping first-time buyers, a report by the housing select committee says
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A report by the think tank Policy Exchange concludes that the university sector is beset by falling standards, mounting student debt and declining returns
