Gillingham in probe over alleged illegal payments
Gillingham's chairman Paul Scally yesterday vehemently denied allegations that the club had been guilty of financial irregularities.
A private investigator has compiled...
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Payments for moving in Tory benefit plan
People on housing benefit will be offered cash incentives to move into smaller homes under Tory plans to slash £425m from the social security budget, it was announce...
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Britain to drop debt payments
Britain is to renounce its right to interest payments on £1bn owed by developing countries, in a last-ditch attempt to secure financial help for 41 of the world's po...
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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.
Acc...
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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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