UN rocked by flood of fraud cases
The United Nations has been hit by an unprecedented wave of fraud, waste and corruption. Officials at its antifraud investigation unit say they are expecting to have to r...
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Master mariner's life insurance payout all at sea
In June 1999, an offshore policy with Old Mutual matured, although I had forgotten it was due. I am a foreign-going master mariner and was at sea from 25 February until 2...
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Mercury rising as rival buys Checkpoint
E-commerce payments firm Checkpoint Holdings was yesterday sold to its Nasdaq-listed rival, Bottomline Technologies, for £53m.
Checkpoint, based in Reading, was th...
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Blundering bank pays ?3,800 for U-turn on pensioner's cash
For more than 20 years, I have paid into two separate Barclays pension policies, now worth £130,000. In the past few years, my health has been indifferent, and I dec...
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What going to college costs and how you can pay for it
Fees, loans and, grants are a complex area, writes Liz Stuart.
Rules on student funding have already been altered in Scotland, with more changes to come. So just who i...
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Key Bloody Sunday witness found
A former soldier who has claimed that his colleagues in the Parachute Regiment deliberately shot innocent civilians on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972 has agreed to ...
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Doomed benefit card cost ?800m
More than £800m has been wasted on a "fraud free" benefit swipe card for 17m claimants which will never be used, parliament's financial watchdog reveals today.
The...
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Cutting out confusing small print
CATs have made their mark on Isas and mortgages and now they're about to get their claws into credit cards. The government wants to make it easier for the nation's 23 mil...
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Mr Sloan is far from entertained
Sean Sloan says this week's Barclays blunder has left him feeling a lot less confident about online banking. Mr Sloan, 32, was one of those who logged on to the bank's ne...
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Brewery 'leaned on Tory MP to stand down
Conservative party officials tried to broker a deal to persuade a disgraced MP to stand down at the 1997 general election under pressure from a former corporate donor, a ...
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