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 …
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A trusted employee of North Yorkshire County Council appeared at Northallerton Magistrates Court this month after pleading guilty to the theft and indeed handing herself in after she couldn’t cope with the guilt of what she had done, the likelihood is that she would have been caught anyway but as private detectives who frequently investigate problems in …
Read more »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 …
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I am always slightly bemused by the feedback from concert sellers that they don’t send out tickets to people until the last minute to prevent people copying and ending up with a high quantity of fakes on the market. Instead what has happened is a multimillion pound fraud industry has arisen surrounding the sale of concert …
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Before I write the rest of this post I should just mention I am going to change some of the details to protect identities but the events are as they happened. I was out the other day with my family and part of the day out was a visit to a fast food chain, it …
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As regular readers will know I use social media a lot and I remember a few weeks back seeing a tweet on Twitter that simply read, this idiot just robbed someone on Yarm Road about 20 mins ago. I’ve just read the amazing story behind that tweet and what happened next. A ten-year-old boy saw Craig …
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