The government’s covid fraud investigation unit NATIS was ordered by the police regulator to stop using police web domains and email addresses it had been wrongly using because it was not a police authority, FOIs show. With James Hurley thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Taxpayer expected to lose most of its investment in Gather, Jorginho-backed investment app, after company's directors 'misunderstood' terms of their pandemic Future Fund loan thetimes.com/business-money…

Exc: Advertising regulator bans "misleading" Facebook adverts for Huel and Zoe featuring Steven Bartlett after the companies failed to disclose their commercial relationship with the celebrity entrepreneur thetimes.com/business-money…

As revealed by The Times and The Sunday Times on Monday...

Woooah… this is a very smart/evil scam. The web savvy will immediately spot the dodgy email address, but I bet plenty won’t.

The government’s pandemic fraud unit wasn't properly overseen by ministers or the council where it was based, a review has found. This included issues with how NATIS accounted for funds it seized from Covid scheme abuse suspects. With James Hurley thetimes.com/article/6faab4…

Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in the criminal trial was Stephen Chamberlain, Autonomy’s former vice-president of finance. Compounding the tragedy in Sicily, he was critically injured in a Cambridgeshire road accident on Saturday and put on life support. According to Reuters,

Newcastle United's owner on track to break national executions record. One hundred and fifty people killed this year alone and still the people who run English football have nothing to say on the matter.

A terraced house in Blackpool pays more council tax than a £100m penthouse in the West End.

Very, very niche one: anyone on here know anyone who is an expert in data retention rules / best practice (ideally in relation to financial services) #journorequest

Fears the Dobbs Review of Lloyds/HBOS’s coverup of the £1bn Reading fraud will surpass the Edinburgh Tram inquiry, which took nearly 9 years to complete and was said to have become a “bigger scandal than the one it was set up to look into”. James Hurley thetimes.com/business-money…

The BBC political editor (260K pa) thinks it's a story that the Downing Street chief of staff (170K pa) earns more than the PM (167Kpa). Welcome to political journalism! PS Laura Kuenssberg is on 325K, Nick Robinson 340K and Fiona Bruce even more. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…