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2 weeks ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Andrew Young
A former boyfriend of Gemma Collins who was accused by the TOWIE star of beating her 'within an inch' of her life has been cleared of assaulting another woman after she failed to give evidence against him. Alex Moss, 44, was due to stand trial after denying charges of assault causing actual bodily harm and assault by beating of Melanie Westbury when she was his partner last December.
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2 weeks ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Andrew Young
A police officer who went to prison for pocketing £15,000 from selling rare Saxon gold coins that didn't belong to him has now learned he could have made over £100,000 if he had been straight. Amateur detectorist and PC David Cockle, 50, was jailed for 16 months after he admitted the theft of ten early medieval coins which he unearthed and sold secretly for £15,000.
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3 weeks ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Andrew Young
This is the unlikely headquarters of the booming business empire masterminded by Graham King - Britain's first asylum billionaire. Hidden away on an industrial estate in Essex, few could imagine the fabulous riches being generated inside the unprepossessing office building with a roof made of corrugated iron.
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3 weeks ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Andrew Young
Two asylum seeker hotels just half a mile apart and majority owned by the same Israeli tycoon are thought to have raked in £100 million from UK taxpayers. The Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza in West Drayton, near London’s Heathrow airport with 1,080 rooms between them have housed migrants for more than four years. The four star hotels which used to be packed with tourists are believed to have been used by asylum seekers for longer than almost any other major UK hotel.
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3 weeks ago | 
hotel.report | Arthur Parashar |Andrew Young
Essex tycoon Graham King, 57, is now estimated to be worth a staggering £1.015billion after a 35 per cent jump in his fortune made him Britain's first asylum hotel billionaire. His company, Clearsprings Ready Homes, is paid by the Home Office to provide short-term accommodation for asylum seekers and has a £1.7billion turnover, which means that Mr King and his firm rake in £4.8 million of taxpayers' cash a day.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Andrew Young
A team of firefighters shifted five tons of soil with shovels and a JCB digger to rescue a French Bulldog which was trapped underground in a drainage pipe. The two-year-old pet called Moose disappeared while his owners Adriana Hudson and Morgan Hermon, both 24, were gardening at their caravan home. The couple were horrified when they heard his faint barking and realised he had scampered into the eight inch wide pipe at the bottom of a nearby ditch.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Andrew Young
Controversial rap band Kneecap who urged fans to 'kill your local MP' have been handed almost £2 million in taxpayers' cash, including a £15,000 grant to pay for their arrival in a fake police armoured car at a US premiere. The band, who have been accused of glorifying the IRA, Hamas and Hezbollah, used the cash to have a Land Rover painted in the livery of the Police Service of Northern Ireland for publicity pictures at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in the US.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Andrew Young
Paul Hollywood hopes to turn home cooking into a money spinner by filming TV cookery shows in a new kitchen extension at his historic farmhouse. The Bake Off judge has applied for listed building consent to demolish a crumbling conservatory to make way for a bigger open plan kitchen diner at his rural retreat.
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1 month ago | 
halifaxcourier.co.uk | Andrew Young
Some of London’s most famous landmarks were lit up with dazzling light projections to mark 100 years of Chocolate Digestives. The lastminute.com London Eye became a towering tribute with a jaw-dropping 360-degree rotating projection of the beloved biccie. Tower Bridge joined the biscuit birthday bash with a rolling showreel of fireworks, balloons and confetti. While County Hall followed suit, stopping the passers-by in their tracks.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Andrew Young
Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull who was the lover of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger for four years in the 1960s left an estate worth just £35,000. Faithfull who died aged 78 on January 30 this year became the ultimate rock chick, inspiring Stones songs such as Wild Horses and You Can't Always Get What You Want. She also had flings with two other Stones – Keith Richards and Brian Jones – as well as David Bowie, but she resisted the advances of Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix.
