2 h. ago 'Cowboy builder conned us out of £100k for extension and left our home in ruins'

Michael Parr, 55, was sentenced to two years and eight months after Andy and Lisa Clarke paid the 'cowboy builder' £98,000 for a home extension he never completed

Economics

20 h. ago Andrew saved millions by paying peppercorn rent on his daughters' St James's Palace flat

The disgraced royal paid less than £20,000 a year for a lavish central London apartment worth more than 12 times that amount - £240,000 a year - to the Crown's coffers.

Economics

3 d. ago Man Utd star Casemiro set 'to be paid £240,000' as agreement finally reached in court

Casemiro will receive £247,000 from his former club Sao Paulo after a long-standing labour dispute over employment-related payments from his academy days was resolved this week.

Economics

7 d. ago Woman's Lithuania facelift leaves her with 'hearing loss and lopsided mouth'

Angela Paterson said she was left facing a £7,000 cost to fix on top of the £8,000 she had already paid

Politics

9 d. ago Chennai Company Sends 1,000 Employees On Fully Paid London Trip. Here's Why

Chennai Company Sends 1,000 Employees On Fully Paid London Trip. Here's Why  NDTV

Politics

1 week ago Mortons Rolls staff win £1m compo payout after bitter court battle with UK Government

One hundred workers have today been paid £500,000 of the compensation cash, with the other half expected to follow in the coming months.

Economics

1 week ago Trump’s ambassador to Israel is hawking a sleeping aid on cable TV as a side gig: ‘Ambassadors need to sleep, too’

Mike Huckabee was paid more than $400,000 by the company that makes the sleep supplement, Relaxium

Politics

1 week ago Scots waterpark shuts down major attraction as parents claim children are ‘gagging’ and feeling sick

AN investigation is under way at a water park after reports of children falling ill with a sickness bug. Council safety chiefs are carrying out checks at the Time Capsule in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire following complaints from parents. It said chlorine and water tests had come back satisfactory but the Tantrum slide would be closed as...

Society

2 w. ago ‘Who’s screenshotting our messages?’: how a WhatsApp saga spiralled into two parents’ wrongful arrest

When Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine posted complaints about their local primary school, they never expected six uniformed police officers to turn up at their doorBefore it catapulted a small school community in London’s commuter belt into the centre of a global news story, the year-four class WhatsApp group at Cowley Hill school in Borehamwood was unremarkable – a place of snide comments, reminders about non-uniform day and flustered messages about being late for the school run.“It was mum gossip, you know?” said one member, Sarah. “A bit juicy, but it wasn’t anything nasty.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago I was hauled off by 6 cops in front of sobbing daughter for moaning about school on WhatsApp – £20k won’t erase trauma

PARENTS who were arrested for moaning about a school have said their compensation won't erase their daughter's trauma at watching cops hauling them away. Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were detained by six police officers in front of their three-year-old daughter on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications. Hertfordshire Police originally stood by its arrest of the parents...

Economics

2 w. ago Autistic man trapped in his London home for eight years is paid £125,000 in damages

The Southwark resident was left ‘scared, isolated and traumatised on a daily basis’ according to his mother

Economics

2 w. ago Inside the scandals of the school WhatsApp group – and what you really can’t say

As Rosalind Levine and her partner Maxie Allen win damages after being wrongfully arrested for complaints they’d made on a parents’ WhatsApp group, mum of two Charlotte Cripps looks at the perils of being a member of the class chat and what lines are too dangerous to cross

Politics

2 w. ago Parents wrongly arrested over school WhatsApp group messages say they hope 'thought police' will 'think twice' after being awarded £20,000 in damages

Maxie Allen, 50, says he feels 'vindicated' after he and his TV producer partner Rosalind Levine, 46, received a £20,000 payout from Hertfordshire Constabulary.

Events

2 w. ago Parents who complained about school on WhatsApp 'paid £20,000 after arrest'

Parents Rosalind Levine and Maxie Allen were each paid £10,000 each after six police officers arrived at their home following complaints from a primary school about messages shared on WhatsApp

Society

2 w. ago Mum reveals how she saved £6,600 on a family holiday to Lapland

Karen Armstrong, 51, shared how she paid just £1,400 for an £8,000 holiday to Lapland - saving over £6,000 by snapping up return flights for just £50 and booking everything 'individually.' 

Economics

2 w. ago Parents ‘get £20k payout’ after unlawful arrest over school WhatsApp row

Ms Levine told Radio 4 there was a moment she thought the police were coming to tell her that their daughter was dead

Economics

2 w. ago Parents get £20,000 for ‘unlawful’ arrest after complaining about school on WhatsApp

Maxie Allen and his partner Rosalind Levine say they hope damages serves as a ‘positive effect’ in future cases

Society

2 w. ago Parents ‘vindicated’ after police admit unlawful arrest over WhatsApp row

Hertfordshire police agree to pay £20,000 to Rosalind Levine and Maxie Allen, who were held for 11 hours after complaining about daughter’s schoolTwo parents who were arrested after they complained about their daughter’s primary school on WhatsApp have said they felt “vindicated” by the police admitting the arrest was unlawful.Rosalind Levine and her partner, Maxie Allen, said they were held at a police station for 11 hours over their complaints about the school. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago Police admit arrest of parents over school WhatsApp group messages WAS unlawful

Hertfordshire Constabulary has admitted the arrest of two parents over a school WhatsApp group was unlawful as parents, Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine, receive a £20,000 payout. 

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3 w. ago Hertfordshire police admit unlawful arrest of couple in school WhatsApp row – report

Force said to have agreed to £20,000 payout to parents who complained about daughter’s school in BorehamwoodA police force has reportedly admitted it unlawfully arrested two parents in front of their nine-year-old daughter after they complained about her school on WhatsApp.Rosalind Levine and her partner, Maxie Allen, said they were held at a police station for 11 hours over the complaints about their daughter’s primary school. Continue reading...

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