17 h. ago Cop who claimed she couldn’t find ‘paedophile hunter’ blackmailer was actually the culprit

A police officer who posed as a 'paedophile hunter' to blackmail an arrested suspect in order to pay off gambling debts, has been jailed for more than three years

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21 h. ago Heartless fraudster posed as a police officer to steal cash and jewellery from pensioner's home in affluent Cheshire village

A man has been jailed for his role in a courier fraud in which an elderly woman was scammed out of thousands of pounds of cash and jewellery.

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26 h. ago Heartless fraudster who posed as a police officer to steal £27,000 of cash and jewellery from pensioner's home in affluent Cheshire village

Sharmarke Ahmed (pictured), 34, from the Wandsworth area of London, pretended to be a cop when he phoned the victim, who is in her nineties, on her landline on March 5.

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37 h. ago 'Despicable' scammer posed as a police detective to steal £27,000 from woman in her 90s

Sharmarke Ahmed took cash and jewellery

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3 d. ago Millions of Brits would rather skip tipping than tip via card

A study of 2,000 adults revealed when it comes to tipping methods, cash is still king, with 58 per cent preferring to tip with coins, loose change or notes – compared to just 15 per cent who opt for card

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4 d. ago North Lanarkshire crime: Appeal after robbers forced way into house and stole £15k worth of gold jewellery

The criminals stole gold jewellery with a value of around £12,000 to £15,000 as well as a four-figure sum of cash

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5 d. ago Martin Lewis verdict on cutting cash ISA allowance as Budget looms

The Chancellor is said to be considering cutting the cash ISA limit from £20,000 to £10,000 to try and get more people investing in the stock market instead

Economics

7 d. ago 'We paid £12,000 to attend our best friend's wedding... only to find out it was all fake': Bogus bride conned women into handing over cash to attend Turkish nuptials

Everything was planned; Charlotte Blackwell's intimate five-star summer wedding was, her friends agreed, going to be an event to remember.

Economics

8 d. ago Don't cut the £20,000 cash Isa limit... it won't incentivise savers to invest, MPs warn Rachel Reeves

The Chancellor should not cut the cash Isa allowance from its current £20,000 annual limit, MPs have said. It comes as the Chancellor is said to be considering restricting the allowance to £10,000.

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8 d. ago Cutting cash Isa limit could lead to 60,000 fewer mortgages a year

Building societies say cash Isa curbs would mean a substantial hit to their lending capacity

Economics

1 week ago New income tax warning to more than one million pensioners with money in a savings account

More than 14 million people in the UK are thought to have over £10,000 saved in cash.

Economics

1 week ago Four charged after nearly £170,000 worth of drugs and £20,000 in cash recovered in Aberdeen

The four men have been arrested and charged in connection with county lines drug offences in Aberdeenshire.

Economics

1 week ago How a Labour manifesto boast led to the collapse of the China spy trial... after a suspect was found with £4,000 in cash in a suitcase as he flew into Heathrow

The Daily Mail has learnt that a single sentence, which appears to have been lifted almost word for word from Labour's 2024 manifesto, led to the China spy case collapsing.

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2 w. ago Looking for extra festive cash? Royal Mail, Amazon & supermarkets hiring for more than 130,000 Christmas jobs RIGHT NOW

IF you need cash for Christmas, now is the time to apply for a festive job.  The number of seasonal roles is up 16 per cent on last year as retailers, logistics firms, pubs, clubs and restaurants take on temporary staff for the season.  However, the number of people looking for a yuletide position is...

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2 w. ago Gold on track for $5,000 as precious metal hits new record high to nudge $4,300 for first time

Analysts suggested gold could be on the way to $5,000 as nervous investors look for somewhere safe to park their cash.

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2 w. ago 'I was on Celebrity Traitors and I know who will take all the prize money'

A Celebrity Traitors star believes they know who will win the £100,000 cash prize

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2 w. ago Gang who brought misery to Welsh city caught with £50,000 worth of drugs and £42,000 cash

A court heard the gang had no option but to plead guilty because police had so much evidence about their movements

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2 w. ago Luigi Mangione lavished with $40,000 in prison cash along with hundreds of erotic letters a day from lustful female fans

The 27-year-old faces a federal murder charge after he allegedly shot Thompson dead on the streets of New York as he attended a conference in December 2024.

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on the China spy trial: an opportunity for Labour to prove it understands the threat from Beijing | Editorial

Dispelling confusion about the collapsed case would build confidence that the government has a coherent policyNo single word describes the challenge that China poses for UK foreign policy. There is threat and opportunity; a requirement to engage and an imperative to be guarded. The Communist party in Beijing represses dissent and pursues its interests overseas with coercive nationalist determination. It is not a regime with which Britain can build a relationship based on common values.But China is also a superpower with near-monopoly control of some mineral resources and pre-eminence in important manufacturing supply chains. Trusting friendship is not an option; hostile rejection is unrealistic. It is not easy to manage relations through private diplomacy, let alone under public scrutiny. But Sir Keir Starmer’s government has looked especially awkward in its response to the collapse of a high-profile espionage case, involving the alleged transmission of secrets from inside parliamen...

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2 w. ago Canadian jobs ‘sacrificed on Trump’s altar’ as Stellantis announces US investment

Mark Carney says automaker’s move to inject $13bn into US is ‘direct consequence’ of Donald Trump’s tariffsCanadian jobs are being “sacrificed on the Trump altar”, union leaders have warned, after the automaker Stellantis announced plans to transfer production of one Jeep model to the United States.Stellantis announced what it described as its largest US investment push in its 100-year history, saying the $13bn cash injection would create 5,000 jobs across the midwestern United States. Continue reading...

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