Steffan Powell, Sian Vivian & Ben Summer BBC Wales Investigates Getty Images Tickets for Oasis’s reunion tour were being listed on resale websites for more than £6,000 – about 40 times the face value – when they went on sale in August Ticket touts are employing teams of workers to bulk-buy tickets for the UK’s...
Chi Chi Izundu and James Stewart BBC News Investigations BBC/Ben Lack/Getty Images “Ticket Queen” Maria Chenery-Woods and Peter Hunter made millions as touts When a judge dismissed an appeal by prolific ticket tout Peter Hunter and his husband and accomplice David Smith against their landmark conviction for fraud, he sounded an alarm. The evidence, he...
US President Donald Trump has said the US has “no stronger partner” than Saudi Arabia during his first major foreign trip – a whirlwind visit of Gulf countries mainly focused on shoring up investment. Day one of the trip saw the two sides announce a $142bn (£107bn) arms deal, as well as a raft of...