Met Police officers are ramming into suspected moped thieves to knock them off their bikes, even during high-speed pursuits. Dashcam footage released by Scotland Yard shows police pursuing suspected thieves across London. However, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating three crashes, although none involves the specialist Operation Venice team set up to …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption We spend £6bn a year on gift cards, but fail to spend £300m – that’s 5% – of that before they expire As shoppers on High Streets across the UK grapple with Christmas shopping this weekend, many of us unable to think of a suitable present will turn to …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Volkswagen said affected customers would be contacted Volkswagen will recall about 75,000 of its VW Polo and Seat Ibiza and Arona cars after a seatbelt fault was exposed by a Finnish car magazine test drive. A new fix would be offered to affected UK owners from Monday, VW said. …
Image caption Anna and Rob Kemm say they don’t trust Outfox the Market anymore and are in the process of switching their energy supplier An energy supplier has apologised to all 100,000 of its customers after it sent out bills that were too high. Outfox the Market admitted the mistake inflated annual bill forecasts by …
Image copyright PA Image caption The usually low-profile Denise Coates was appointed CBE for services to the community and business in 2012 Denise Coates, the billionaire boss of Bet365, added another £265m to her wealth this week after the company her family founded racked up another year of bumper profits. She’s been called Britain’s most …
Image caption Craig and his partner Tracey by their house Two years after buying their £325,000 house from developers Bovis, Craig Wakeman and partner Tracey Bickford are still waiting to move in after discovering their dream home was riddled with 354 defects, many of them structural. The couple told BBC Radio 5 Live Investigates buying …
Ellie Miller is thought to be Europe’s only female commercial surfboard maker – or shaper, as they are known in the trade. She’s built her specialist business over the past six years and keeps her production line to about 30 boards a year. She describes how she got involved and shares some tips for others …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Local MPs have criticised the decision to announce job cuts at Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant in the run-up to Christmas Every union worker at Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port car plant has walked out in protest at planned job cuts. John Cooper from Unite said all 1,100 employees at the site …
Image copyright Getty Images Members of a London community Facebook group are furious after the rights to run it were sold on to another party not from the area. Group members then became angry at claims that the new administrators wanted them to pay to promote their local businesses to each other. Facebook does not …
Image copyright Getty Images UK shoppers on Black Friday have been buying more items but spending less, credit card data suggests. Barclaycard, which processes half of all UK card payments, said that by 15:00 GMT it had seen 10% more transactions from a year earlier. However, the value of spending was down 12% on last …