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I read this story a couple of days ago on the BBC website (click here) that iPhone and Android owners were being warned to watch out for rogue apps, doing a little more digging I was actually quite shocked to learn from Richard Eaton of Appware that Android apps aren’t checked at all before being made …

A story that caught my eye this week was the conviction of two con artists that had been targeting Argos and B & Q with a scam involving an electronic scanner and till rolls, forged product labels with catalogue numbers and a received stamp. A member of staff in the Middlesbrough store had become suspicious …

You can’t have failed to have seen the news this week about rogue trader Kweku Adoboli and probably had the thought ‘how on earth can that happen?’ According to various sources the 31 one year old handed himself in, which means even at the end UBS wasn’t aware that Kweku had managed to lose over …

As someone who is very aware that the theft of metal is a big boom industry at the moment I picked up on this story in the Yorkshire Post Click Here to Read It suggesting people in West Yorkshire should nail down their garden furniture but the extract that really tickled me was this paragraph Garden …

You can’t have failed to hear mentioned in the news recently about the mobile phone hacking story, I haven’t commented a great deal on this. My industry has been slated and as always happens in these situations the bad eggs make the good eggs look really bad too. What has totally surprised me is that …

Following on from my post about the new incapacity benefit checks being aimed at soft targets to get the figures down quickly, I was shocked to read the story of Joseph Gill and Sandra Foster in the Northern Echo this week. The pair had over-claimed £36,000 in benefits and not only that, they had earned …