Council tax rebel released from jail
A retired vicar jailed for non-payment of council tax was released today after serving 28 days in jail.
Alfred Ridley, 71, was released after spending four weeks at Wood...
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Do I have to pay to cancel a DD?
Q Having finally paid off my credit card debts, a few weeks ago I phoned up Barclaycard to close my account. That done, I tidied up loose ends by cancelling Barclaycard's...
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What can I do if someone won't repay a court-enforced debt?
Q In 1997 I lent a solicitor friend of mine £10,000. He was supposed to repay it over 10 months at a rate of £1,075 a month. He only made one payment. I continu...
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Council tax refusenik unrepentant
Council tax rebel Sylvia Hardy today said after her release from prison that she was prepared to go to jail again.
The 73-year-old was released last night after serving ...
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Rishton takes flight rather than fight
Bean counting beats union battles
Maybe it is just parochialism that makes one instinctively regard John Rishton's decision to quit as finance director of British Airway...
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Council tax refusenik jailed
A retired social worker today became the first female pensioner to be sent to prison for refusing to pay council tax arrears.
Council tax rebel Sylvia Hardy, 73, was sen...
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101 things you were too embarrassed to ask about money
When there are so many worries about credit card fraud and identity theft, this doesn't seem an unreasonable concern. While we're shredding our bank statements and puttin...
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Technobile
It's a good job credit cards are tough or the Sainsbury's zapper-woman would have torn it in two. We were fighting, literally, on the latest technological front: chip and...
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Speculators circle Whitbread
Rumours of a break-up for Whitbread, the leisure conglomerate that owns the Premier Lodge hotel chain and Costa Coffee, resurfaced yesterday after some unusual activity i...
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Has Elephant made a big mistake?
Q My son had car insurance from Elephant. He set up a monthly direct debit but only one payment had been made before his car was written off in an accident that wasn't hi...
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