Scammers stole £47m from the online accounts of 100,000 people through posing as taxpayers, HMRC has revealed. The tax authority said it is writing to those affected to confirm it has secured their accounts and that they haven’t lost any money. “These are attempts to claim money fraudulently from HMRC, not from customers,” HMRC said....
Athena A court heard Katherine Hill withdrew the money from an account for which she was a trustee A mother has been ordered to pay back £50,000 inheritance she stole from her two daughters. Katherine Hill, 53, from Alltwen in Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, and her 93-year-old father Gerald Hill, from Fairwood in Swansea, were...
BBC Anna Holligan’s bike meant a lot to her and other people I was planning an ordinary afternoon out – bags packed, ready to roll – when I bounded downstairs and was hit by a jolt of disbelief. The space where my cargo bike should have been was empty, and the double lock that had...
Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Getty Images Cyber criminals have told BBC News their hack against Co-op is far more serious than the company has previously told the public. Hackers contacted the BBC with proof they had infiltrated IT networks and stolen huge amounts of customer and employee data. After being approached on...
A football fan who filmed himself stealing food at Everton’s new stadium during a test event has received a lifetime ban from the club. The video showed the man ordering food at the new Bramley-Moore Dock ground in Vauxhall, Liverpool, before the server turned away to make him a coffee. The fan was then heard...
A long time ago, in a political galaxy far, far away, I was a Policy Fellow at Minnesota’s conservative think tank  American Experiment, so I have some special pride and affection for the work that Bill Glahn, a current policy fellow, has been doing uncovering the largest COVID-era scandal in the country. He just dropped...