Watchdog acts on payments for MPs' speeches
The parliamentary commissioner for standards, Elizabeth Filkin, is cracking down on outside speaking engagements by leading MPs such as Charles Kennedy and Michael Portil...
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Payments that forced Wodehouse into exile
MI5's conclusion that PG Wodehouse's wartime broadcasts from Berlin were not the isolated actions of a "naive, silly ass" was based on documents found in the archives of ...
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CSA 'raising false hopes' of back payments
Errors by the child support agency are cruelly raising false hopes among lone parents of windfalls of thousands of pounds in child maintenance back payments, the agency's...
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Oxford fee rebels face expulsion for withholding payments
Fourteen Oxford university students who are withholding tuition fees face being banned from university premises today if they do not pay ?1,000 each by lunch-time.
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Blues reveal record £140m losses
Chelsea have revealed league-record losses of £140m for their championship-winning year. However, pre-tax figures for 2004-05 show a 6% reduction in player wages and...
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Calls unanswered at benefit centres hit by computer flaws
One million calls from jobless people seeking their first benefit payment have gone unanswered because of teething problems with a computerised call centre system, accord...
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Pensioner jail terms create pressure for council tax action
Pensioners are serving sentences in prison in an attempt to urge the government to reform the council tax. The Reverend Alfred Ridley, 71, has already begun a 28-day sent...
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Fraudsters show how to beat chip and pin
Chip-and-pin technology, the latest weapon against credit card crime, will not reduce fraud and could make it easier, a criminologist argues today.
Reliance on a persona...
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Inside view
Local authorities haven't always been quick to take up the gauntlet of e-payments. For a long time, we have made our way individually, working out unique solutions in iso...
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Don't be afraid of throwing down the gauntlet to banks
Last month I wrote in Jobs & Money about the late payment charges made by most credit card companies. These typically involve the levying of around £25 on the ac...
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