Prescott threatens to gag Channel 4 probe into his business links with China

British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott  is surrounded by schoolchildren at Baijiazhuang Primary School in Beijing

John Prescott has threatened Channel 4 with  an injunction over a TV investigation probing his business links with China, it  emerged yesterday. The Labour peer is allegedly embroiled in a  furious row with the producers of a Dispatches documentary that … Continue reading

The Paralympics will show us just how much disabled people can achieve, and shame despicable benefits cheats

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Article by – By Dominique Jackson - The Daily Mail Do you remember Tina Attanasio? The name may  not ring a bell but if you watched a clip of her whizzing down a water slide  into a shimmering swimming pool in … Continue reading

Atos assessors told to keep disability benefit approvals low, film suggests

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GP applied for job with Atos assessing whether benefit applicants were fit for work, and secretly filmed his training Secret filming of training given to doctors recruited by the private company Atos to assess whether sickness and disability benefit applicants … Continue reading

DISPATCHES TV MON 30TH JULY – 8PM ” Britain on the Sick”

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On Mon 30th July BBC2 and Channel 4 are broadcasting two documentaries, the channel 4 “Dispatches” series is looking into the methods used to assess sickness and disability benefits, Panorama being shown on BBC2 because of the Olympics is broadcasting a … Continue reading

Revenue chiefs face tax avoidance row after undercover investigation – including the head of ethics

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Tax chiefs at Her Majesty’s Revenue &  Customs were last night accused of having links to companies engaged in  potential tax avoidance. An in-depth undercover investigation alleges  that senior directors of HMRC were connected with companies that may have been  … Continue reading

Trade in sensitive personal data uncovered by secret investigation…

C4′s Dispatches records private investigator selling bank details and criminal and medical records to reporters The ease with which private investigators can access highly personal and sensitive information stored in secure government databases has been exposed by a report that … Continue reading