Competition watchdog launches probe into proposed takeover of ticket resale website Stubhub by rival

Competition watchdog launches formal probe into proposed takeover of ticket resale website Stubhub by rival Viagogo By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:29 BST, 16 April 2020 | Updated: 22:29 BST, 16 April 2020 The competition watchdog has launched a formal probe into the proposed takeover of ticket resale website Stubhub by rival … Read more

MARKET REPORT: US criminal probe a drag for British American Tobacco

MARKET REPORT: US criminal probe is a drag for British American Tobacco as it is suspected of breaches of sanctions By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:46 BST, 14 April 2020 | Updated: 23:09 BST, 14 April 2020 Shares in British American Tobacco began the week in the red following reports it is … Read more

Police launch murder probe after family of four are found dead

Police have launched a murder investigation after a family of four and their pet dog were found dead at their home in a picturesque Sussex village. The bodies of two adults and two children were found in Woodmancote on Sunday evening, with the killing toll during the coronavirus lockdown now at nine. Elsewhere on Sunday, … Read more

Police launch murder probe after teenager, 18, stabbed to death in south London

Police launch murder probe after teenager, 18, stabbed to death in south London Officers called just before 3.30pm on Sunday to with Shooters Hill, in Woolwich They found the victim, believed to be aged 18, in the Woolwich Common area Despite efforts of passers-by, police and paramedics, the man died at the scene By Joe … Read more

Commuters lose 165million hours a year because of train delays, probe reveals 

Commuters lose 165million hours a year because of train delays, probe reveals Passengers in the North spend an extra 40 minutes a day on sluggish trains    At least 20 miles worth of useable rail carriages ‘are sitting idle in depots’   New Channel 4 probe comes ahead of Government review on rail improvements  By Tom Payne … Read more

Lookers’ chief operating officer quits amid ‘potential fraud’ probe 

Car dealer Lookers’ chief operating officer quits amid ‘potential fraud’ probe By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:14 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 23:14 GMT, 12 March 2020 Lookers’ chief operating officer Cameron Wade announced his resignation from the car dealership The chief operating officer of Lookers has resigned amid a probe over … Read more

Scottish Power facing Ofgen probe after litany of complaints

Scottish Power is facing an inquiry by the energy watchdog after a Money Mail investigation exposed the firm’s shambolic service. Last month, this paper sent a dossier of complaints to Ofgem after we were inundated by letters from angry customers.  In the worst cases, some had been made to wait up to a year for … Read more

Financial watchdog extends probe into the collapse of holiday giant Thomas Cook

Business Secretary Leadsom welcomes financial watchdog’s decision to extend probe into collapse of holiday giant Thomas Cook The FRC announced it will analyse financial statements by auditors EY Thomas Cook collapsed in September after failing to find a funding lifeline By This Is Money Published: 11:43 GMT, 19 December 2019 | Updated: 11:45 GMT, 19 … Read more

Calls for probe into why investigation into kidnap of Dubai ruler’s daughter dropped

Princess Shamsa was abducted from Cambridge after she went on the run in 2000 and the High Court has ruled her father Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum was behind the plot  Demands are growing for independent inquiries into the roles of the Foreign Office and Cambridgeshire Police after an investigation into the abduction of a princess in Britain … Read more

Counter-terror police probe violent ‘incels’ after suspect leaves threatening messages online

Britain’s counter-terror police are conducting their first investigation into the activities of a violent ‘incel’ after the suspect posted ‘threatening’ messages online.  A ‘disruption’ operation was carried out last year after an unidentified man, from outside of London, was accused of posting a series of ‘worrying’ statements. Officers were drafted in amid fears that the … Read more