Collapse of Sir Philip Green’s empire leaves taxpayers out of pocket

Collapse of Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia empire leaves taxpayers with a multi-million-pound bill By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:26 BST, 13 July 2021 | Updated: 22:26 BST, 13 July 2021 Taxpayers will be hit with a multi-million-pound bill from the collapse of Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia empire. The company behind Topshop went … Read more

UK taxpayers pumped £21m in to fitting out Dutch vaccine factory that EU have now blocked

UK taxpayers have pumped £21million in to fitting out a Dutch vaccine factory that the EU has now threatened to ban jabs being exported from.  Health Secretary Matt Hancock approved the multi-million pound investment in the Halix factory in Leiden with the guarantee that doses would be sent to the UK. Initially, it was hoped that … Read more

UK taxpayers pumped £21m in to fitting out Dutch vaccine factory that EU have now blocked

UK taxpayers have pumped £21million in to fitting out a Dutch vaccine factory that the EU has now threatened to ban jabs being exported from.  Health Secretary Matt Hancock approved the multi-million pound investment in the Halix factory in Leiden with the guarantee that doses would be sent to the UK. Initially, it was hoped that … Read more

Tycoon Sanjeev Gupta asks Government for £170million of taxpayers’ cash

Tycoon Sanjeev Gupta has asked the Government for a £170million emergency bailout to save Liberty Steel – as his wife begins a revamp of their lavish London mansion.      The firm is understood to have appealed to the Government for financial support after its main backer, Greensill Capital, went bust earlier this month. Mr Gupta, whose GFG Alliance owns … Read more

Tycoon Sanjeev Gupta asks Government for £170million of taxpayers’ cash

Tycoon Sanjeev Gupta has asked the Government for a £170million emergency bailout to save Liberty Steel – as his wife begins a revamp of their lavish London mansion.      The firm is understood to have appealed to the Government for financial support after its main backer, Greensill Capital, went bust earlier this month. Mr Gupta, whose GFG Alliance owns … Read more

Major General jailed 21 months for cheating taxpayers of over £48k

Major General Nick Welch has been jailed at Bulford Military Court for 21 months The highest ranking officer to be court martialled for more than 200 years was today jailed for 21 months after cheating taxpayers of nearly £50,000. Major General Nick Welch has been jailed at Bulford Military Court for 21 months after he … Read more

Hollyoaks’ Jamie Lomas ‘is claiming taxpayers’ money to furlough staff for three of his companies’

Jamie Lomas is reportedly claiming taxpayers’ money to furlough staff for three of his companies. According to reports, the Hollyoaks star, 45 – who has continued to portray Warren Fox on the soap throughout the lockdown – has made employee wage requests through Jamie Lomas 21, Jamie Lomas Associates, and First Take School of Acting.  The state-funded Coronavirus … Read more

Taxpayers will only recoup fraction of cash owed by Arcadia

Taxpayers will only recoup fraction of £44.2m owed by Sir Philip Green’s fallen Arcadia retail empire, according to newly released documents By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 21 February 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 21 February 2021 Taxpayers will only recoup a fraction of the £44.2m owed by Sir Philip Green’s … Read more

£500million Pierre Lagrange is claiming taxpayers’ cash to furlough staff at Savile Row tailor

Flamboyant tycoon Pierre LaGrange owns Huntsman, the 172 year old clothes retailer  A multi-millionaire has been claiming public money to furlough staff at his Savile Row tailoring firm. Belgian-born Pierre LaGrange, who lives in Monaco, London and New York has used taxpayers’ hand-outs to pay some of the 65 staff at his upmarket London company … Read more

£500million Pierre Lagrange is claiming taxpayers’ cash to furlough staff at Savile Row tailor

Flamboyant tycoon Pierre LaGrange owns Huntsman, the 172 year old clothes retailer  A multi-millionaire has been claiming public money to furlough staff at his Savile Row tailoring firm. Belgian-born Pierre LaGrange, who lives in Monaco, London and New York has used taxpayers’ hand-outs to pay some of the 65 staff at his upmarket London company … Read more