Howdens Joinery to repay £30m of furlough cash and rates relief

Howdens Joinery to repay £30m of furlough cash and rates relief thanks to booming demand after lockdown By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:52 GMT, 2 November 2020 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 2 November 2020 Howdens reports surging profits as families prepare to bed down for a winter indoors Howdens Joinery will repay … Read more

Beauty salon boss who smuggled £1.5m of cocaine is ordered to repay just £41

A beauty salon boss who enjoyed a round-the-world party girl lifestyle before being jailed for smuggling £1.5million worth of cocaine has been told she only needs to repay £41. Stephanie Nelson, 32, was four months pregnant when a Kent Police officer stopped her Hyundai iX35 at the Dartford Tunnel in June last year. The officer … Read more

Woman jailed for siphoning £610,000 from company for ‘romance fraudster’ told to repay every penny 

Lovestruck woman is ordered to repay £610,000 she siphoned from employer to send to ‘romance fraudster’ Ilyiea Ali, 42, of Birmingham, siphoned more than £600,000 from her employer She paid more than £300,000 to ‘romance fraudster’ Tahmoor Khan Khan was jailed for eight-and-a-half years in 2016 and Ali for 30 months in 2018 A proceeds of … Read more

Hatton Garden’s Basil must repay £6 million or serve more jail time

Michael Seed, also known as Basil the Ghost, pictured, was jailed for ten years for his part in masterminding the 2015 Hatton Garden raid The ringleader of the Hatton Garden burglary plot, known as ‘Basil the Ghost’ has been ordered to repay almost £6 million or serve seven extra years in jail.  Michael Seed, 60, … Read more

Dental technician found with £1million worth of cocaine will repay LESS than £6,000

Dental technician found with £1million worth of cocaine stashed in two Bags for Life will repay LESS than £6,000 of the £200,000 he made from drugs  Andrew Mackie, 53,  who was found with with £1 million worth of cocaine, made almost £200,000 a court heard  In January, Mackie, was jailed for eight years and four months … Read more

Sub-prime lender Provident Financial will repay furlough cash

Sub-prime lender Provident Financial slumped to a £32.6million loss in the six months to 30 June, new results show. The group, which runs Vanquis Bank and Moneyfarm, said the loss was better than it had been expecting given the potential impact of Covid-19 on its business. Provident now plans to repay all the cash it … Read more

TONY HETHERINGTON: Santander won’t repay our €7,000

Tony Hetherington is Financial Mail on Sunday’s ace investigator, fighting readers corners, revealing the truth that lies behind closed doors and winning victories for those who have been left out-of-pocket. Find out how to contact him below.  P.H. writes: We sold a property in Spain. The proceeds were transferred to us here in the UK, … Read more

Asos says to REPAY UK Government for cost of furloughing

Asos has confirmed it plans to repay the Government the money it saved by furloughing around 1,000 staff via the Job Retention Scheme as the pandemic hit.  In a trading update, Asos said: ‘As a result of our expectation that we will deliver a better than initially anticipated full-year performance, we are repaying the support … Read more

Asos says it will REPAY the Government for cost of furloughing

Asos has confirmed it plans to repay the Government the money it saved by furloughing around 1,000 staff via the Job Retention Scheme as the pandemic hit.  In a trading update, Asos said: ‘As a result of our expectation that we will deliver a better than initially anticipated full-year performance, we are repaying the support … Read more

Taylor Wimpey to repay furlough cash, putting pressure on firms

Taylor Wimpey to repay furlough cash: Builder’s vow ramps up pressure on profitable firms By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:56 BST, 18 June 2020 | Updated: 21:57 BST, 18 June 2020 Firms that rake in huge profits have come under pressure to hand back taxpayer’s cash for furloughed staff, after Taylor Wimpey … Read more