Why is my power firm allowed to hold on to £830 of MY money?: Customers who have overpaid huge sums to energy suppliers being held to ransom By Laura Shannon, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 9 January 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 9 January 2021 Customers who have overpaid huge sums to energy … Read more
A London property investment firm was forced to apologise after its ‘appalling’ bid to skip the coronavirus vaccine queue by offering doctors £5,000 for each jab given to its staff. Doctors across Britain are said to have been offered up to £100,000 to vaccinate the workforce of The Hacking Trust – a luxury London property firm – amid … Read more
A financial director who swindled her own firm out of more than £800,000 to feed an online gambling addiction has been jailed for 32 months. Lauren Farr, 34, conned company We Fight Any Claim based in Cwmbran, Wales, for more than three years while working there as a senior executive. The mother-of-two, of Spring Grove, Cwmbran, … Read more
Posh furniture firm co-founded by Sam Cam’s mother borrows £9m after racking up losses of £23.5m By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:55 GMT, 5 January 2021 | Updated: 23:10 GMT, 5 January 2021 The posh furniture firm co-founded by David Cameron’s mother-in-law has had to take out a £9million loan after racking … Read more
A cybersecurity adviser says he warned SolarWinds of a potential ‘catastrophic’ attack if the company didn’t amp up internal security measures and the firm’s move to Eastern Europe may have exposed it to the massive Russian hack. In late December it was revealed that the sprawling cyber-espionage attack led by state-backed Russian hackers affected more … Read more
Minutes into our Zoom call, Nick Wheeler, founder of shirt-maker Charles Tyrwhitt, makes a truly breathtaking appeal for life to return to normal. He quietly reveals that, tragically, two of his friends have killed themselves since the Covid-19 lockdowns were imposed. Both were businessmen who had lost their jobs. ‘I know more people who have … Read more
Celebrity favourite rehab chain The Priory Group is sold to Dutch private equity firm for £1.1bn By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 30 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 30 December 2020 Rehab chain The Priory Group, famous for treating celebrities from Robbie Williams to model Lady Isabella Hervey, has been … Read more
A holiday lettings company in Tier 2 Cornwall apologised after it was accused of ‘encouraging’ Covid rule breaches by offering to help find accommodation for a visitor ‘from Tier 4’ in the New Year. St Ives Holidays, on the south-west coast, was branded ‘disgusting’ and ‘the reason the NHS is on its knees’ when a … Read more
The top boss of Oxford vaccine maker AstraZeneca says researchers have worked out a ‘winning formula’ to boost the jab’s efficacy. Pascal Soriot, chief executive of the British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm, says a two-dose method can push the vaccine’s efficacy rate towards that of rivals Pfizer and Moderna. His comments come as officials reportedly prepare to approve the … Read more
The top boss of Oxford vaccine maker AstraZeneca says researchers have worked out a ‘winning formula’ to boost the jab’s efficacy. Pascal Soriot, chief executive of the British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm, says a two-dose method can push the vaccine’s efficacy rate towards that of rivals Pfizer and Moderna. His comments come as officials reportedly prepare to approve the … Read more