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Police are making inquiries after a complaint was made about the finances of Yes Scotland, the group which campaigned for independence in the 2014 referendum.The Sunday Mail, external has reported on claims that income of more than £1.5m was unaccounted for.The newspaper said the complaint was made by David Henry, who was one of those whose concerns about the SNP’s finances led to the Operation Branchform investigation and the eventual conviction of former chief executive Peter Murrell.Yes Scotland Ltd, a company which was set up by former SNP leader and First Minister Alex Salmond to campaign for independence ahead of…

A smartphone screen displays the MarineTraffic map showing a concentration of ship beacons in the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb, with a map of the strait visible in the background, in Créteil, France, on March 30, 2026. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesA cargo vessel in the Red Sea has reported coming under attack, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre, a British maritime security alert service, said Sunday, amid a fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran.The body said it received a report of the incident 30 nautical miles (56 km) southwest of the…

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Zack Polanski has confirmed he will pay any outstanding council tax he owes, saying he believed he was not liable for the charge while living on a houseboat in London.The Green Party leader told the BBC he could be liable for between £3,000 and £4,000 in unpaid council tax, owed to the London borough of Waltham Forest.However, Polanski said the council has yet to tell him whether he faces a bill for unpaid tax – and claimed he may not owe anything at all.Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Polanski said working out the tax bill for living on a boat was…

Show up. Go hard. Go home.That sums up how Talia Mayden approached her one-night-only bachelorette party. In June, the New York-based designer and writer posted online about having a less-than-24-hour bash with her closest friends: pre-dinner drinks at a Lower East Side bar, a $1,100 private dinner at a Chinatown restaurant that seats 25, and an hour-long party bus rental ending with a night of scream-singing at a nearby dive bar.By 2 a.m., Mayden says she and her friends were calling Ubers to head back to their respective beds. “Without staring down the barrel of a multi-day itinerary, we were…

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The Sunday Times reports that in 2023, Cottrell put Farage in contact with Jack Anderton, a 25-year-old right-wing political activist from Liverpool, to help run his social media operation, particularly on TikTok – where Farage’s engagement surged. It reports that Cottrell paid Anderton a salary equivalent to around £55,000 a year.Later that year, Cottrell helped negotiate a £1.5 million fee for Farage to appear on I’m a Celebrity…, the newspaper reports, and started providing Farage with security, primarily composed of elite former soldiers, and drivers.After Farage announced that he would stand as a Reform UK candidate in the 2024 general…

We’re entering the quiet before the earnings storm. The Independence Day-shortened trading week is behind us. So is the June jobs report , and the long-awaited Honeywell Aerospace spin-off . Of course, something can always happen that surprises us and throws Wall Street for a loop. You might even argue we can count on that. But as far as the actual calendar is concerned, the first full week of July is light on both earnings and market-moving economic reports. The calm will not last. The trading week of July 13 to July 17 marks the official start of second-quarter earnings…

Eye-watering World Cup prices haven’t stopped soccer fans from around the world from opening their wallets.As of July 2, some of the best resale seats for marquee knockout matches were listed for roughly $20,000 on StubHub. Many upper-level resale seats were listed for around $5,000.But tickets are just one part of the cost. Add airfare, hotels, rental cars, meals and merchandise, and the price of attending the tournament can cost thousands of dollars more.Outside New York’s Penn Station, soccer fans heading to World Cup matches at MetLife Stadium told CNBC Make It they expected to spend anywhere from a few…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writer is professor of European Studies emeritus at the University of Oxford. His latest book, ‘Europe in 7½ Chapters’, appears this autumnToday’s Europe has two cores. Its economic-political core is the EU, its military-political one Nato. Both are based in Brussels but for decades they talked to each other remarkably little. Yet Europe’s strength has derived precisely from having this dual core. At the military alliance’s Ankara summit this week, its leaders must face up to the fact that Europe’s second…