4 d. ago US Capitol rioter ordered to pay damages for assaulting cop who later died by suicide

Jury awarded $500,000 to widow and estate of the police officer who killed himself nine days after the January 6 riotA federal jury on Monday awarded $500,000 to the widow and estate of a police officer who killed himself nine days after he helped defend the US Capitol from the mob that attacked on January 6, 2021, including a man who scuffled with the officer during the uprising.The eight-member jury ordered the man, 69-year-old chiropractor David Walls-Kaufman, to pay $380,000 in punitive damages and $60,000 in compensatory damages to Erin Smith for assaulting her husband, Washington DC metropolitan police officer Jeffrey Smith, inside the Capitol. They awarded an additional $60,000 to compensate Jeffrey Smith’s estate for his pain and suffering. Continue reading...

Events

4 d. ago Voices: I’m leaving the UK because of how Labour has treated wealthy non

Multi-millionaire businesswoman Dr Ann Kaplan Mulholland – who is moving from her Kent castle to Italy, for the more favourable tax jurisdiction – says Labour is running out of time to rethink its flagship plan to scrap non-dom status and that Nigel Farage’s idea for the super-rich to pay £250,000 for a Britannia Card doesn’t go far enough

Politics

5 d. ago Nigel Farage's Britannia Card plot to help billionaires avoid taxes mocked

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is planning to let wealthy business tycoons pay £250,000 for a so-called Britannia Card, which would excuse them from taxes on overseas earnings and inheritance tax

Economics

6 d. ago Family blast 'jealous' neighbours who reported them to council over 'monstrosity' extension...but their new plans could make locals even angrier

Aysha Khanom was made to pay £2,000 after a retrospective planning request for a large porch at the property she shares with her family in Oldham was rejected.

Events

8 d. ago Fife cannabis factory: £7million drugs haul as police raid former college building in Kirkcaldy

A cannabis raid on an empty building in Kirkcaldy has revealed a cultivation with a street value of around £7million.

Economics

8 d. ago Can I pay builder in cash and could my bank stop me taking out £40,000 over eight weeks?

The builder want to be paid half the funds in cash. He says his team prefers cash so he pays them that way.

Economics

8 d. ago Tube drivers threatening to strike if 'bosses refuse to pay them £76,000 a year'

The RMT trade union is allegedly urging members to take action if Transport for London (TfL) does not offer them a pay rise of 4.5 per cent.

Economics

8 d. ago Pensioner is hit with £24,000 electricity bill... and ordered to pay back £2,000 a WEEK

Lin Lawler, who owns Grange Farmhouse in Hainford, Norfolk, uses the five-bedroom house and adjoining annex as a holiday rental for just over 100 days a year.

Economics

8 d. ago Parliament bell ringer rips out neighbour's gate but insists he's in the right

A judge ordered 65-year-old Parliament bell ringer Adrian Udal to pay a couple £10,000 after his 'unjustifiable and unneighbourly' move to dismantle their house gate

Politics

8 d. ago Drug dealer found to be selling heroin and cocaine ordered to pay back £3,000

Kaci Payne, 25, was found with a phone connected to a drugs line and claimed to be working under direction

Economics

9 d. ago Drug dealer ordered to pay back £200,000 and hand back his vintage Ford

Lee Whiteley, 35, previously admitted conspiracy to supply class B drugs and the cultivation of cannabis

Economics

1 week ago Parliament's chief bell ringer has to pay retired banking boss £10,000 for ripping out gate to his £2m west London home on day he moved in

Nicholas Partick-Hiley bought his Fulham home with his wife Lisa in August 2023 in hopes of a peaceful retirement, but was left aghast to find his new neighbour demolishing his gate.

Economics

1 week ago Drug dealer caught with £165k worth of cocaine and cannabis after cops raid Edinburgh flat

Ardit Mazrreku was caught after cops acting on intelligence raided a property on Ratcliffe Terrace in the city in September.

Economics

1 week ago £150 compensation payment for over 4,000 people with major energy supplier

Utilita to pay £277,000 for Warm Home Discount payment failures over the 2023/24 winter period.

Economics

1 week ago Former operator of Notting Hill celebrity hotspot ordered to pay over £30,000 for rat and cockroach infestations

District Judge Clarke said: ‘This was probably one of the most egregious cases I have seen’

Economics

1 week ago Pay cap of 500,000 euro at AIB and PTSB removed, Finance Minister says

Paschal Donohoe said it would be inappropriate to impose salary caps at a bank the Government did not hold a share in.

Politics

1 week ago Nearly 1.2 million savers warned they could face unexpected tax bill

If you are basic-rate (20%) taxpayer then you can earn up to £1,000 in savings interest each tax year before you start to pay tax on interest you've earned

Events

1 week ago Energy firm to pay £277,000 in compensation after major payment failure

Ofgem found that Utilita failed to pay Warm Home Discount payments, worth £150 and applied directly to electricity accounts, to 4,000 customers within the required timeframe

Economics

1 week ago Utilita to pay £277,000 for Warm Home Discount payment failures

Ofgem found the supplier failed to pass on the mandatory discount to more than 4,000 customers.

Economics

1 week ago HMRC will change tax code of state pensioners to reclaim cash

Winter Fuel Payments will be paid to all pensioners, but if you earn more than £35,000 a year, then you will have to pay it back

Economics