Sylvia may yet get her fortnight in jail
Sylvia Hardy, the 72-year old Council Tax rebel from Devon, is expecting to be sentenced shortly for her non-payment of the full Council Tax increases. She should soon ge...
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The fabulous banking boys
Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florenceby Tim Parks
286pp, Profile, £15.99
Despite the trail of financial and political failure th...
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HSBC staff strike over pay and dole out peanuts
Thousands of HSBC staff walked out in a row over pay yesterday in the first strike in the banking sector for eight years.
The Amicus finance union, which handed out pea...
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?400,000 NHS fraudster jailed
A financier who defrauded the NHS of nearly ?400,000 was today jailed for four years.
Peter Nicol posed as the head of a multimillion-pound business empire to con 18 hos...
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Man to be jailed over ?400,000 NHS fraud
A financier who defrauded the NHS of nearly ?400,000 was told today he would be jailed.
Peter Nicol posed as the head of a multimillion-pound business empire to con 18 h...
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A case of can pay, won't pay
Robin Brookes has owed about £500 to the Inland Revenue since 2003, and the fines and interest on the unpaid tax are piling up. He can afford to settle the bill, and...
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Half of ATMs will impose withdrawal fee within two years
Half of all cash machines will charge within two years, the banking payments trade body said yesterday.
The Association of Payment Clearing Services (Apacs) said that t...
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Our camera seller lied
Q We recently bought a 'Fuji' camera in Tenerife for ?137, using our Nationwide credit card. The camera turned out to be a complete fake, so we disputed payment.
Howeve...
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A life without bills may sound like a dream - but could prove a nightmare
Fuel companies are regularly lambasted for sending out inaccurate bills. But scores of customers each year receive no bills at all, however much energy they consume.
Unl...
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Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite," says the engraving above the entrance to the Senate building in Paris. It could have been formulated for Les Blogs & Social Software, t...
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