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Jan 29, 2025 | 
msn.com | James Oliver |Harriet Agerholm |Will Dahlgreen
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
msn.com | James Oliver |Harriet Agerholm |Will Dahlgreen
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | James Oliver |Harriet Agerholm |Will Dahlgreen
Sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich could owe the UK up to £1bn after a botched attempt to avoid tax on hedge fund investments, evidence seen by the BBC suggests. Leaked papers reveal investments worth $6bn (£4.7bn) were routed through companies in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). But evidence suggests they were managed from the UK, so should have been taxed there.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | James Oliver |Harriet Agerholm |Will Dahlgreen
It was Christmas 2011, a year after Roman Abramovich had taken delivery of his new superyacht, Eclipse. But it seemed the oligarch would not be using it over the festive period - records show it had been chartered by a company based in the British Virgin Islands. And yet photographs from Christmas Day that year show Mr Abramovich in the Caribbean sunshine, standing on the swim platform at the rear of the yacht, with Eclipse's large letter-E logo behind him.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
bbc.co.uk | Nick Triggle |Harriet Agerholm |Hannah Karpel
Some consultants are being paid £200 an hour for working extra hours, a BBC News investigation finds.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nick Triggle |Harriet Agerholm |Hannah Karpel
NHS England has attacked senior doctors for charging “rip off” rates for overtime, after a BBC investigation found pressure to cut waiting lists is allowing some consultants to make more than £200,000 a year for additional work. That is nearly double the average basic pay for a full-time consultant in England.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nick Triggle |Harriet Agerholm |Hannah Karpel
Senior doctors are charging the NHS premium rates for overtime, as pressure to cut waiting lists is allowing some to make more than £200,000 a year from additional work, a BBC News investigation has found. That is nearly double the average basic pay for a full-time consultant in England. Many of the consultants earning the most are thought to be part-time, allowing them to work significant amounts of overtime for rates exceeding £200 an hour – more than four times normal pay.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Harriet Agerholm
More children in damp rental homes, figures showBy Harriet Agerholm, Data journalist, BBC VerifyBBCTatiana's son, four, was treated for a lung infectionThe proportion of private renters with children who are living in damp homes has almost doubled since the pandemic, BBC analysis suggests. The figure has risen from one in 14 households before the pandemic to one in seven in 2022-23, according to the English Housing Survey.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
newsfounded.com | Jim Reed |Harriet Agerholm |Alison Benjamin
In a statement, the Department of Health and Social Care in England said it was aware of each PFD report. “Our £1bn urgent and emergency care plan sets out a clear vision for how we work to reduce waiting times,” a spokesman said, along with a £2.4bn plan to ” train, retain and reform” the NHS workforce.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
homeofscience.net | Shazir Mucklai |Jim Reed |Harriet Agerholm |Alison Benjamin
A BBC investigation finds 109 warning letters last year highlighted NHS waits or resource pressures. Image source, Christine HuiCoroners in England and Wales sent 109 warning letters to the government and health bodies in 2023 highlighting long NHS waits, staff shortages or a lack of NHS resources, the BBC has found. The number of cases identified that were linked to NHS pressures was the highest in the past six years.
