Adam Bradford (middle) and his mum Denise had no idea that David had been struggling with a gambling addiction for 30 years. Adam Bradford was just 21 when he discovered his dad David, now 66, was being sent to jail for stealing over 500,000 to pay debts from a gambling addiction his family didnt know…
DetailsLostock Sustainable Energy Plant (LSEP), a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and FCC Environment, announced the appointment on 25 January. The appointment of US construction company Black & Veatch comes after the previous contractor, French-owned CNIM, lost the deal after it was declared insolvent and entered administration in January 2022. LSEP has also…
DetailsBreadcrumb Trail Links Investor Peter Hodson: A bankruptcy is devastating, but it would be a mistake to let it put you off investing for good Xebec Adsorption Inc. was a a once-popular $1.4-billion company in the clean-energy space that surprised many investors by filing for bankruptcy protection last September. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf/The Gazette Article…
DetailsNews story The website for the 2022 Forward Thinking conference has been updated with the videos of the sessions from the day. Building on the success of 2021, the Forward Thinking conference returned in 2022 and was hosted by Nottingham Trent University. The conference theme was insolvency response in uncertain times, with a number of…
Detailsi. Ministerial Foreword The Scottish Government has made a commitment to identify and take forward improvements in our debt management solutions to ensure they remain fair and fit for purpose. I believe we have an excellent system with solutions that provide fair and effective remedies for people trying to deal with problem debt and those…
DetailsMathius Thompson, 33, from Birmingham, Moira Wood, 47, from Lightwater, Guildford, and Ioan Adrian Mociar, 35, from Harrow have been banned for a total of 30 years after separate investigations found they had abused the Bounce Back Loan scheme during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mathius Thompson was the sole director of West Midz Cars Ltd in…
DetailsFRANCEs Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) has released a draft opinion calling for the legalisation of cannabis. On Tuesday, January 24, 2023, during a plenary assembly, CESE revealed its draft opinion based on ten months of research and hearings, Newsweed.fr reported. The document, dubbed Cannabis: moving away from the status quo, towards regulated legalisation,…
DetailsUS firm Recharge Industries on Wednesday said it was making a cash bid for Britishvolt, a UK firm behind a planned gigafactory for electric vehicle batteries that declared bankruptcy last week. The start-up, championed by former prime minister Boris Johnson to help drive a greener economy, had been developing the multi-billion-pound project in Blyth, northeast…
DetailsA former general manager of the Adelaide Remand Centre who stole more than $100,000 in cash from prisonersgambled away $1 million about the same time as the theft, an Adelaide court has heard. Key points: Brenton Williams stole $112,000 from a safe at the Adelaide Remand Centre At about the same time, he gambled more…
DetailsText size US firm Recharge Industries on Wednesday said it was making a cash bid for Britishvolt, a UK firm behind a planned gigafactory for electric vehicle batteries that declared bankruptcy last week. The start-up, championed by former prime minister Boris Johnson to help drive a greener economy, had been developing the multi-billion-pound project in…
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