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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Action on bank review
The Treasury is likely to announce this week that it is to act on some of the main recommendations of the Don Cruickshank review of the banking industry, including his su...
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Civil servant's ?500,000 fraud went unnoticed
Controls on a government legal agency were so weak that a £500,000 fraud by a civil service lawyer went unnoticed for nine years, according to a report yesterday.
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Gaping holes in the tax net
Self-assessment taxpayers have just over a week to send in cheques to the Inland Revenue to beat the July 31 deadline for tax payments. This time they must pay the second...
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Corporate Dad
And now for the good news. Quality Protects, the government's programme aimed at "transforming" services for children, is starting to deliver. That's the official ver...
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Move to pin down credit card fraud
A French revolution in the way British consumers pay for goods with credit and debit cards is planned to combat card fraud, which is forecast to rise to record levels.
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