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Such numbers are used in conjunction with malicious apps that reply to text messages and then delete confirmation messages so users end up paying vast sums to cybercriminals without realising. The Mobile Cybercriminal Underground Market report outlines some of the key businesses operating in this vast and sophisticated network.
A GSM modem can send out thousands of spam text messages every hour Spam devices It includes the selling of premium-rate phone numbers, which can be bought from 220,000 yuan (�21,400).

It goes to show that being successful in business doesn't necessarily make you well-known - but buying a football club can give you celebrity, notoriety and access to important people. In recent years, the life of a Russian oligarch could be described as precarious.

Buying a Championship club is therefore like taking a punt on property in an up-and-coming part of town.
This might explain why there has been so much interest in Championship clubs. Likewise, in Italy, AC Milan and Juventus do very well relative to the rest. Any team getting promoted to the Premier League enjoys a huge financial windfall. For instance, in Spain, Barcelona and Real Madrid account for about 60% of the total.


Many owners are simply fans of the clubs they own or have strong ties to the local community. Even though Jordan states he tried to run the club as a hard-headed business, ambition was irresistible and in football, success comes at a high price. While in the business world, the head can rule the heart, it can be the opposite when it comes to football.

It is rumoured that Arsenal, the North London football club, has substantial cash reserves of over �120m. In this case, the American Stan Kroenke, who owns about 63% of the shares in the club, could award himself a nice dividend if so desired. nDividends are not the only way to make money from football clubs. When it was speculated that a Middle East consortium was willing to pay �1.5bn for Arsenal Football Club, Kroenke would have made a capital gain of �400m on his shares.


Some of the applications were made in the names of people who did not exist, including a fictitious BBC producer. End Quote DCI Todd Clements PSNI It was carried out over a period spanning from 2002 to 2008, at the height of the property boom. nUnsuspecting innocents All three had pleaded guilty to charges that included theft, false accounting, concealing criminal property and transferring criminal property.

Police described their investigation as "complex and far reaching".
The three men falsified mortgage applications totalling millions of pounds. nThe fraud involved eight properties and amounted to more than �3m.
Continue reading the main story "Start Quote These were sophisticated and well-planned frauds which involved serious breaches of trust"

'Web of deceit' "He thought this was some sort of El Dorado where he could succeed without any of his clients suffering a loss. This was the cardinal error that he made."
The judge, however, said he was satisfied that Creegan was the prime mover in the scam. n"He sat at the centre of this web of deceit," he said, adding that he believed it was Creegan who had approached 51-year-old Brassil and brought him into the scheme.

Last season, the club finishing bottom of the Premier League had to make do with �39m in TV money. This is more than Manchester United received from winning the league last year, although this year's victors will see their TV bonanza come close to �100m. This year, under the new deal, it will be �63m.

This year, the relegation battle is a tight affair - and club owners panicked by the drop have been jettisoning managers left right and centre. In the bottom half of the league, six clubs have changed manager this season, with Fulham changing manager twice.

The venue has since reverted to its former name. James' Park to the Sports Direct Arena. Newcastle United's passionate following was probably not too happy when their home ground since 1892 changed its name from St. Not all the commercialisation is popular with supporters.

Even despite the parachute payments, relegated teams tend to lose their better players, suffer a drop in morale and rarely bounce back immediately. It is not surprising there is reported interest from US, Omani and Indian investors.
But if promotion from the Championship to the Premier League is like winning the lottery, relegation in the opposite direction is viewed as a disaster.

The Qatar Investment Authority (the country's sovereign wealth fund) bought the French Ligue 1 side Paris St Germain in 2011 and has gone about transforming them in the same way Sheikh Mansour has Manchester City. Most of the serious money flowing into football recently has come from the Middle East.

Football is seen as an important way of expanding their brands, but of course they are also in competition with each other.
After all, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Bahrain are all small but rich Gulf states with global ambitions. In fact, when Manchester City recently played Arsenal the game was described as Abu Dhabi (Etihad) v Dubai (Fly Emirates).nContinue reading the main story "Start Quote I spent two Christmas Eves in a row with my head in my hands, crying, because I ran out of money, or wasn't selling enough" It offered small businesses the chance to work with a successful entrepreneur on their product, with a view to pitching to a real supermarket buyer. High Street Dreams By 2010, the Sahotas' burgeoning business had caught the attention of producers working on a new BBC show called High Street Dreams.


Why has it taken so long, asks Denise Winterman. American artist Nickolay Lamm created a prototype of a Barbie-like doll last year based on US government measurements for an average 19-year-old American woman and the response was huge.
It's time for Barbie to make a new friend. A fashion doll with reasonably standard human body proportions - as opposed to the exaggerated dimensions of a Barbie - is going to be manufactured. Meet Lammily, who could soon be sitting alongside her on toy shop shelves.

Basic use of the app is free. Users enter various details, such as their weight, into the app, which it uses to help it predict (with varying degrees of success) when the next period will occur. The company makes money through advertising and by selling extra services and products.

The ambition will be to gain promotion as soon as possible.
Reading are also a club up for sale. They are currently subject to a takeover bid from the Italian "King of Corn", Massimo Cellino. In recent years, they have won the Championship twice and made the playoffs on two other occasions so are viewed as a team that can challenge for promotion. Leeds United have a illustrious past and a strong fan base, being the only club in the city. Likewise, they sit in an affluent and growing part of the South East with few local rivals.

"It's still the same brand, but historically there were at least two signs on this location."
Hand-painted signs enjoyed their heyday in the 1920s and 1930s when homeowners used to make money by renting a gable end to advertisers.
But they were squeezed out by billboard technology in the 1950s and 1960s. nIn some cases, however, the use of modern advertising has protected some of these striking signs from disappearing completely. nBile Beans once claimed to "keep you healthy, bright eyed and slim" Mr Roberts said: "Bile Beans laxative pills was a big national brand. It looks like it was for a long time covered with something and then whatever was covering it was removed, leaving this incredibly well preserved fragment of the main sign."

In an ever changing city, many of these ghost signs fall prey to the developer's bulldozer.
But Mr Roberts sees no reason to be sentimental about it. They're part of this ever changing urban landscape.
His advice is to look up, take the train and sit on the top deck of the bus, while there's still chance to spot these vestiges of accidental art. n"For every one that's lost, another one is revealed when a building gets demolished or a billboard comes down," he said.

He says it's because it's not always easy for Chinese women to track or predict their periods.
Garage Cafe is a place where investors and entrepreneurs can meet Although official figures are hard to come by, Mr Chai says that while his Western female friends say their periods are reasonably regular, the Chinese women he knows say their cycles vary considerably.

"This marked the start of a massive investigation centred on three suspects and their activities in submitting, processing and sanctioning loans and mortgages.
"Each defendant used their respective positions of trust to obtain loans to buy land or properties in Armagh and Louth between 2002 and 2008 when the property boom was at its height. n'Well-planned frauds' "Loans were applied for using either bogus identities or the names of individuals who had no knowledge of the applications. These were sophisticated and well-planned frauds which involved serious breaches of trust.

nHe says Westerners are often puzzled why there should be demand for his service. Mr Chai hit on the idea of the menstrual tracking app after his girlfriend told him about her own difficulties with keeping track of her periods.

This festival is a big moment of transition for the street art scene in India. n"We are in a post-graffiti era," says Ambrogi, the festival's curator. Street art involves the lawful beautification of public spaces with painting, whereas graffiti incorporates a mix of tagging (spray painting an alias in a public space) and the subversive or politically visual nature of the expression. It should make India another global hub for street art like cities in the US, Europe and even Thailand." n"Graffiti was illegal but it's become more mainstream for museums and galleries.

He's not the first to make the comparison.
"What if fashion dolls were made using standard human body proportions? He now wants to produce his doll and is close to crowdfunding the $95,000 (�57,000) he needs to start production. The Magazine calculated what a real life Barbie would look like back in 2009, scaling her up to human proportions using a model who was a size 10/12. This is the question I asked myself after comparing fashion dolls to typical body proportions," he says on his website.Further up the road in the heart of the student community, the promise of sweets and stationery above the door of an end terrace reveals how it began life as a newsagent. Send your pictures and comments to england@bbc.co.uk.
Corner shops used to be a regular pit stop for residents before supermarkets moved in They are the fading reminders of a different era, says Sam Roberts, who has developed an online archive of ghost signs for the History of Advertising Trust.
A selection can been seen here, but which signs have you spotted where you live?

He says he's ready to compete with the biggest players in the world: "A big company like IBM fears small start-ups like mine, because my idea is so crazy - and only the craziest ideas pay the best."
Deep Glint wants to teach computers to see in the same way as humans Home comforts But as Zhongguancun grows in popularity, some start-ups have been forced to look for cheaper locations elsewhere in the city. The government has helped by allowing companies to set up in apartments rather than in offices. Mr Liu's venture aims to help businesses manage their data more effectively.

An advert for Bryant and May's 'Puck Matches' remains on a street corner in Harehills.
On closer inspection, it is a prime example of a palimpsest - a sign which has been overwritten. nAdverts for cigarettes and tobacco products were once commonplace Mr Roberts said: "If you look closely at the word 'Puck,' you will see in the background the remains of an old sign which says 'British matches, British homes.'
"It may be that they had an old sign, and someone at Bryant and May said, 'Let's have a little mascot', so they repainted the sign.

nFour food fairs later, all with the same result, the family started to sense a serious business opportunity. My dad didn't know how to make it on a bigger scale, so we figured it out over nine days - we were selling boiling hot bottles on the first day of the show."
The gamble paid off. Media requires JavaScript to play.
"Everyone got involved and started to make the sauce," Kuldip says. Please turn on JavaScript. The sauce sold out before the show ended.


He also revealed that it took one month for 30 detectives to catalogue all the papers in the case. DCI Clements said that more than 100 police officers carried out a series of searches in 2009 in south Armagh to seize documents and other material as part of the investigation.
A lawyer for Creegan, a 47-year-old father of three, said his client's story was a tale of greed, hubris and a spectacular fall from grace, maintaining that his client had "lost everything".

Continue reading the main story "Start Quote You have to adapt to survive"
End Quote Kevin Mazur, Rolling Stone photographer Users can choose from sports events, fashion shows, stock images and celebrity gatherings like the Oscars and the Brit Awards. nHowever, there are some notable exceptions - primarily editorial photos of events such as the 11 September terrorist attacks on America or the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
In essence, it is admitting defeat. By offering the ability to embed photos, Getty is saying it cannot effectively police the use of its images in every nook and cranny of the internet.

n"We are going to start small, and then the world is your oyster, in terms of how quickly and how much you can grow," the buyer told the Sahotas. nMillions of TV viewers watched as the Asda buyer offered the Sahotas the chance to distribute their product through its stores. End Quote Kuldip Sahota Mr Singh's The Sahotas not only won the chance to appear, but also persuaded perfume mogul Jo Malone to let them pitch their rebranded sauce to Asda. n"We stayed up for three days preparing for that pitch," Kuldip recalls.

In 2000, he paid �10m to take control of South London football team Crystal Palace, becoming the youngest football club chairman at the age of 32. nHe was warned by many not to do it, but having watched the club since his childhood, could not resist. Fast-forward 10 years and the club was in administration and Jordan's personal wealth largely wiped out. Jordan amassed a fortune of �75m in the early days of the mobile phone revolution.

nMr Zhao has big ideas for his company, Deep Glint. nPotential future applications for the technology include robotics and driverless cars. The firm wants to teach computers to see in the same way that humans can. His start-up has recently moved into an apartment in the suburbs near the Olympic Park. "It's five times cheaper than an office - and it's much nicer too," says Zhao Yong. nDeep Glint uses special cameras and software that will enable to computers to "see" the world around them, and to interpret what they are seeing.

ZhenFund general manager Anna Fang says China's attitude to risk needs to change Despite this thriving start-up scene, Anna Fang, general manager of ZhenFund, which has backed both Deep Glint and online education firm Sunny Education, says China will have to change its attitude to risk if it is to truly rival California's Silicon Valley.The company built up a following by taking their product to trade shows In 2008 Hardev's eldest son, Kuldip, decided it was make-or-break time. The family would need to source bottles, print packaging and find enough time alongside their day jobs to make enough sauce. nIt was a tough challenge. And they had just over a week to do it all. Without telling anyone, he paid �1,000 on his credit card to buy a stand at a BBC Good Food show in London.
He then told his family, revealing they would need to produce and sell 1,000 bottles to make their money back.

nA mural of Mahatma Gandhi has already become a landmark in the city Shivam and Rohit Kumar, both aged 5, light up instantly and lead me on a frenetic and natter-filled excursion for the next half hour. I ask two children passing by if they can show me some of the other graffiti in their neighbourhood. nOne mural of a cat playing with a ball of wool by Indian artist Anpu scales a wall opposite some shops. Only when they paint Lord Krishna on my wall will my business improve." nStumbling block Kiranvati, an aged, single-toothed shop owner here lauds the artwork, but says: "My business hasn't improved.


As I enter Shahpur Jat, I am greeted by a large painting of two black crows lugging explosives across a public toilet wall by Taiwanese artist Ano. That is very important to me," says Daku. "I respect Banksy, but I don't find it flattering to be called India's Banksy because my work is separate and has a very Indian aesthetic. nDown another lane through tangled power cables and construction debris, a fearsome mechanical bird by Indian artist Yantra swoops down on a bank building, its techno-sinew in full display.


Det Chf Insp Todd Clements of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's (PSNI) Organised Crime Branch said his officers spent years following a massive international paper trail in a bid to bring the trio to justice. Others were unsuspecting innocents who had their identities stolen and used by the gang.
In some cases the value of the properties was vastly inflated, leading to bigger mortgages and greater opportunities for the laundering of money.

Chai Ke insisted that he and his team should wear sanitary napkins Mr Chai's company, Dayima, is one of a number of firms that offer mobile phone apps to help women in China to track their periods. nThe cost of living in Beijing is another deterrent, with many people preferring the security of working for a big company. nContinue reading the main story Beijing's battle for start-up staff Despite the enthusiasm of Chinese entrepreneurs, launching a start-up is still seen as a risky thing to do, and it can be difficult to attract good staff.

In England, Premier League clubs are proverbial cash cows with three strong sources of revenue - TV money, commercial activities and gate receipts. Making money and cutting costs The accounts do not make for good reading, but on the face of it, there is little reason why football clubs cannot be profitable.


"The way you do that is you go to one of our customer sites and you right-click. And that's what's happening�"
Images can be shared by copying a simple code from the Getty website The company says it is making up to 35 million photos available through the new "embed tool", and images can also be shared on social media sites Twitter and Tumblr. n"If you want to get a Getty image today, you can find it without a watermark very simply," he added. "Our content was everywhere already," said Craig Peters, a business development executive at the Seattle-based company. Or you go to Google Image search or Bing Image Search and you get it there.

By using football, they are putting themselves on the map and even adding a bit more security. Measured by GDP per head, Qatar is the richest nation on earth, but is small, has substantial oil reserves and happens to be situated in a relatively unstable part of the world.


Such underground forums are thriving worldwide, particularly in Russia, China and Brazil. Security firm Trend Micro outlines the popular methods used by Chinese gangs to make money from the mobile web.
It details how cheap some mobile malware kits can be - from as little as 100 yuan (�9.70).

The trio all worked in the Newry area of County Down.
Peter Creegan, from Liska Manor, Newry, once managed the First Trust bank in Newry, Peter Brassil, from Chancellor's Road, Newry, is a former solicitor, and Damien Mallon, from Drumcomwell Road, Armagh, was an estate agent.

nArtists, curators and college students from India, Italy, Brazil, Serbia, Germany and Taiwan have participated in the event which took 18 months of organisation. The image causes many casual bystanders to baulk.
The scale and coherence of the tableau is confounding not least because of its location in a neighbourhood and city where many say urban planning is often a risible misnomer. nThe 50-day festival, which ends on Friday, has all the markings of an organically scrappy effort that has come to satisfying fruition.
As part of our Next Silicon Valleys series, Neil Koenig visits to see how it compares with its Californian counterpart. Chai Ke insisted that he and his team (all men) should wear sanitary napkins for several weeks to help them empathise with their customers and so develop a better product - a menstruation-tracking app. nThere's no doubting the dedication of some Chinese entrepreneurs. Beijing has a thriving start-up scene, and some of its entrepreneurs are going to extraordinary lengths to ensure their success.

nAngels appear The Sahotas' luck turned again in late 2012.
Chastened by their earlier experience, the family started to talk to outside investors, and finally found a manufacturer in Cambridge they trusted. Throughout most of 2011 and 2012 the family struggled to keep the dream alive. Kuldip had maxed out his credit cards to keep the business going, and was tens of thousands of pounds in debt. n"I spent two Christmas Eves in a row with my head in my hands, crying, because I ran out of money, or wasn't selling enough," he remembers.

One boy actually stood for a couple of hours almost every day, proudly watching as I painted the cat, as though he owned it and I didn't. n"But when they weren't we had to negotiate a little. The sentiment around religious figures has been a stumbling block for the organisers.
Members of a temple insisted one artist create an image of the Hindu god Krishna before painting anything else. n"Many people were happy for us to paint on their walls," says Anpu.

Neither bank will comment officially on whether their registered offices would move, let alone on what effect such a move might have on their head offices or on jobs.
It might also be a boon for the "yes" campaign, removing a key plank of the chancellor George Osborne's argument against a formal currency union with an independent Scotland, ie that "Scotland's banking sector is far too big in relation to its national income."
But if the effect on employment was minimal such moves could be good news for an independent Scotland, removing the prospect of having to bail out these giants if they ran into trouble again.

Critics argue her proportions are unrealistic at best and damaging at worst. Lamm says rather than waiting for toy companies to change their doll designs he would manufacture his own. It's time someone fought back." Barbie manufacturer Mattel defended the doll's proportions in an interview earlier this year saying they are designed to make play easier, not be realistic. The results were rather eyepopping, as you can see below.
Barbie's figure has regularly come under fire over the years. People in the diet and fashion industry. nBarbie and Lammily "Finally someone has been brave enough to show what a woman really looks like," says Pat Hartley, body image expert and author of Body Images: Development, deviance and change. It's taken such a long time for a doll like this to even get close to production because a lot of people have been making a lot of money from projecting the image of the stick-thin woman as the ideal.

nThe cost of buying the club was loaded on to the club itself, with the revenues it generates used to pay down the debt and interest that the Glazers undertook to buy the club. Eventually, the hope is that the club will essentially pay for itself leaving its American owners in possession of a multi-billion pound asset. The Glazer Family bought Manchester United in 2006, recognising the immense value of its global brand as a cash generator and the opportunities to enhance it even further.

Most of the residents I speak to in Shahpur Jat - from fruit and juice vendors to home-owners - are ecstatic at the colour and creativity brought to their worn walls. nPointing at a mural on his wall, one jewellery shop owner says: "This is useless. nBut some are not so sure. When the time comes to repaint the shop, I will paint over it."
This mechanical bird by Indian artist Yantra is painted on a bank building This mural of a cat playing with a ball of wool scales a wall opposite some shops Delhi's authorities have supported the festival "There are a lot of independent street artists and graffiti writers across the country, but there's nothing that brings them all together," says Hanif Kureshi, creative director of the festival.

Last season, the average ratio of wage bill to turnover was 90% for Championship clubs.
Because revenues are so much lower, the strains on club finances are much harsher. Since the collapse of ITV Digital in 2002, the TV contract for lower tier clubs has been almost negligible.
The gap in funding makes promotion from the Championship to the Premier League a huge financial deal. As a result, the Championship playoff game, a cup final of sorts where the winner gets promoted, is regarded as the most lucrative in football - worth �120m in TV money alone.

nHe says it's important to explain not only the risks of start-ups, but the possible benefits too.
Dayima (which means "auntie", and is also a slang term for "period") has raised millions of dollars from international investors, and says it has millions of users. Andy Liu used to work at New Oriental, a Chinese firm that's now one of the biggest education companies in the world. nTo inspire recruits at his own start-up, online education firm Sunny Education, he tells them it has the potential to be like New Oriental where "the first 100 employees are all millionaires".In some of the city's oldest areas, they are rife, peppering buildings once at the heart of their neighbourhoods, quietly reminding us how business and industry has changed. nOn the corner of Burley Road, the appropriately named Mark Cole advertised his services as a coal merchant - his livelihood, though defunct decades earlier, is still visible to passers-by.

The problem, though, was that they had given no thought as to how they might fulfil the order. nDream goes sour For a while they worked around the clock at their home, in the kitchen and later in the shed, but quickly realised they could never produce enough. nAnd even when they belatedly decided to outsource manufacturing, there were more problems. The family was thrilled. n"We created a product we loved, and we wanted to maintain the quality," Kuldip says.

News corporations will still have to pay to use the photo, but bloggers can share it for free Images of celebrities are amongst the most widely-pirated images online. Getty's plans mean it would receive credit for shots like this one, of the Destiny's Child reunion at the 2013 Super Bowl. Images cannot be resized and they will all incorporate a Getty Images logo, as well as a credit for the photographer.
AFP photographer Roberto Schmidt made headlines around the world with this image.
Like YouTube, the company may use the code to serve advertisements in the future, allowing it to make revenue by sharing its catalogue. Its code, which can be cut and pasted onto any website, is similar to the tool YouTube provides for sharing its videos.

However the Scottish government disputes both the Treasury's assessment of the scale of the sector and the suggestion that the banks would need to move their registered offices.
Woolly thinking Officials in Edinburgh insist that their proposals for a financial regulatory regime "harmonised" across a shared sterling area would be compatible with European law, including Council Directive 95/26/EC.

When they learned that McDade had taken a short-term lease on a flat in High Street, Glasgow, the address was watched and a "covert monitoring post" was set up nearby to record what was said. nListening in to the bugged conversations, officers learned that McDade was trying to make enough money to pay off a drug debt to his supplier and have enough left over to go into business on his own.

It has not gone into this blithely. "Getty will get its pound of flesh one way or another," photography journalist Daniela Bowker told the BBC News website. It has got a plan."
She added many of her contacts were unhappy about the move.
"For some of them, it might mean their images are never used commercially and they'll never make a penny.
"My Twitter feed has exploded with very angry photographers going 'I don't want Getty giving away my images for free'," she said.

Toolkits are becoming more available and cheaper; some are even offered free of charge. In Android third-party stores - where most Chinese Android users shop - cybercriminals pay according to the number of downloads they want, with prices starting at 40 yuan (�3.90) for 10,000 downloads.
The report concludes: "The barriers to launching cybercriminal operations are less in number than ever.

"These crimes are normally about making or saving money at the expense of the taxpayer."
The heavier fines may be handed out for all types of fly-tipping "whether this is a company tipping a lorry-load of used tyres in a field or a householder dumping an old mattress in an alleyway" the council said.
The new guidelines will be used in courts from 1 July.

Former BBC One controller Cohen was announced as the new director of television in April last year.
His commissions included the critically acclaimed dramas Call The Midwife, The Village and Saturday night talent show The Voice. He took over BBC Three in May 2007 after leaving Channel 4 as the head of factual entertainment and E4.


A number of signs from years gone by can still be found in Beeston The National Health Service - in its infancy during the decline of hand-painted signs - found a way to promote itself by advertising with chemists, going on to become a British institution. "They are representative of going to your local bakers or butchers to do your weekly shop rather than the supermarket and this was the medium with which to advertise their business," he said.
While some signs record a way of shopping that has since declined, others speak volumes about the way advertising has changed.

He said the offences were "of their time", highlighting the phenomenal growth of the property market from the turn of the century until the crash of 2007. nPeter Brassil will spend a year in jail "He [Creegan] saw other people making money out of property and thought he too could make this sort of money," the lawyer said.

nMore than 20 artists have painted over 50 walls in Shahpur Jat, Hauz Khas Village and Khirkee Extension areas Many residents and shop owners say they prefer paintings of religious figures A large painting of two black crows lugging explosives across a public toilet wall A sale has seen works and prints of the art being snapped up by collectors from Switzerland and England, and marks the first time Daku - also described as India's Banksy, the British graffiti artist - is selling his works. 'India's Banksy' The festival - ironically named This Is Not Street Art - has more than 20 artists painting over 50 walls in Shahpur Jat, Hauz Khas Village and Khirkee Extension areas.
Mike Ashley, the chairman of Newcastle United and proprietor of Sports Direct, does not appear concerned by the fact that he is unlikely to get back the �200m he has loaned to the club. He is, after all, a supporter. Heart over head One explanation is that it has nothing to do with money.
Simon Jordan, in his recent autobiography, tells the story of how owning a football club can go terribly wrong.


It would probably make more difference to RBS than to Lloyds if the registered offices moved south. But this is more an accident of corporate history than an indication of where Lloyds makes its money.
Bail out Both firms have head offices - real operational headquarters as opposed to formal registered offices - in London but RBS also has a head office at Gogarburn on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

This would not be at a cost to the licence fee." Kylie Minogue and Ricky Wilson joined will.i.am and Sir Tom Jones for series three of The Voice, commissioned by Cohen A BBC spokesperson said in response: "Danny was simply talking about how you might incentivise staff who deliver amazingly successful programmes that go on to produce commercial revenue for the BBC outside of the UK.

It said it wanted magistrates to make more use of the "highest levels of fines".
Sentencing Council member and magistrate Katharine Rainsford said: "Illegal disposal of hazardous waste not only causes damage to the environment but puts people's health at risk as well. n"This guidance for courts will help ensure consistent and appropriate sentences for offenders.


'Extraordinary spending sprees' The court heard Jenkins befriended Josephine Stubbings, 67, from Berkhamsted, who was described in court as a likeable eccentric with underlying mental health issues. nA third message sent to Mr Campbell said Jenkins was out of the country and did not intend to come back. nHis girlfriend sent a text to Mr Campbell on Monday saying Jenkins went out on Sunday night and had not come back. After the jury delivered its verdict, Recorder Sterling told them Jenkins had called his lawyer Andrew Campbell on Sunday in a distressed state.

nThe report also talks about SMS forwarders - which are Trojans designed to steal authentication or verification codes sent via text messages.
This spam can be used to advertise various products as well as tricking users into visiting malicious websites. A 16-slot GSM modem, are available for approximately $425 (�254) each, can send up to 9,600 text messages per hour.
They monitor text messages sent from online payment service providers and banks and intercept authentication or verification codes which are then forwarded to cybercriminals.


When Jenkins did not appear at court the judge, Recorder Simon Sterling, issued a warrant for his arrest.
Josephine Stubbings paid Jenkins from 2008 to 2011 for work a surveyor said should have cost no more than �60,000. John Jenkins, 70, from Aylesbury, Bucks, failed to turn up for the last day of his trial at St Albans Crown Court on Monday.
The jury found Jenkins guilty of fraud by false representation.


The mural has already become a landmark in the city centre and is said to be the largest of India's independence hero. n"We had been in talks with Delhi police for a while when they suggested we take one wall of their headquarter to paint Mahatma Gandhi," says Mr Kureshi. nA serendipitous 45.72m (150ft)-high mural of Mahatma Gandhi resulted from one discussion. Delhi's government and municipal institutions, otherwise famed for their lethargy, have been refreshingly forthcoming with support for the festival.

Conversely, tobacco advertising, which was once commonplace, has now disappeared from public view following a government ban. nWhile some brands have faded into quaint obscurity, others have stood the test of time, including Leeds' institution, the Yorkshire Evening News. nSome signs were protected from the elements by billboards, preserving a fragment of the original underneath But while the newspaper has since experienced a minor name change, other signs show how brands have evolved.


The new guidelines have been set out by the Sentencing Council. As well as fly-tipping, nuisance offenders whose crimes involve noise, smoke or carry a health risk will also be hit by the harsher fines.

Millions of images - including famous shots of Marilyn Monroe and Barack Obama - will now be available without cost to blogs and social media sites.
The photos will be "framed" with a code that links back to Getty's website.
Continue reading the main story "Start Quote A lot of people are very, very angry"
End Quote Daniela Bowker, Photographer and journalist Getty said it had made the move after realising thousands of its images were being used without attribution.

nDeep Glint has moved into an apartment in the suburbs He used to work for an investment firm, looking for promising start-ups to back, but found them widely scattered across the city. So he launched Garage Cafe as a place where investors and entrepreneurs could meet more easily. Zhongguancun is blessed with "the greatest number of talented people in the whole of China", according to the entrepreneur Su Di.His comments come as BBC boss Tony Hall mounts a defence of the licence fee.
Director general Lord Hall is rebuking critics who suggest it should be shared amongst other broadcasters, and in a speech in Oxford this week, he will say that "top-slicing" would place much-loved "content and services" at risk. The decision to freeze the licence fee during the last settlement negotiations in 2010 led to the BBC having to make savings that included 2,000 job losses.
The BBC's Royal Charter, setting out the corporation's role, functions and structure, is due for renewal after the general election.

nLooking back, Kuldip describes his family's short TV career as a "double-edged sword". nToday Mr Singh's sauces are stocked in Harvey Nichols, Selfridges, and hundreds of independent retailers across the country. The sauce also started to attract favourable attention from influential food writers.
In March 2013 Kuldip raised a sum in the "low six figures" from three angel investors, money that allowed Hardev, Kuldip and his brother Sukhi to go full-time. nThey are even reappearing on supermarket shelves, this time in Tesco.

The Home Office told the tribunal that Mrs Chappell did not meet the �18,600 income or the �62,500 savings thresholds required.
"We are separated because we don't make enough money."
Mr Chappell said he was very bitter as he feels he gave "his all" as a serviceman.
Brandi Chappell said the decision was "despicable" "All these people come from European countries claiming it is their human right but mine and my husband's human rights don't count.
Speaking from her home in the US, Mrs Chappell said: "I think the decision is despicable.


In other European leagues, TV rights are often negotiated on an individual club rather than a collective basis. The collective rights agreement between all the clubs means that clubs who finish towards the bottom of the league will be assured of a good share of the money. This means that TV money is concentrated in the hands of the best supported clubs.


"We have to make some of our own heroes: you get young people who come in who have good ideas and they are very proud to work at the BBC," he said. 'Make our own heroes' He said that as well as looking at "how we incentivise people" the corporation needed to look at "how we use Worldwide" [the BBC's commercial arm]. We've got to take some bets on new people and we've got to work on incentivisation." A great idea can come from someone in their early 20s.


The court was told Jenkins found a "golden opportunity to make money" Prosecutor Michael Speak said: "He relentlessly spent the money. He went on the most extraordinary spending sprees day after day after day."
He said Mrs Stubbings was a "vulnerable lady" who was "trusting in ways she should not be" and "easily persuaded". During the trial, the court was told Jenkins spent tens of thousands of pounds of the victim's money on 19 holidays to Spain and the United States and on shopping trips.

Peter Creegan was jailed for three years for his part in the mortgage fraud As part of probe - codenamed Operation Radix - officers also uncovered the trio had used false identities and undisclosed companies to carry off their multi-million pound fraud.

Spam is big business in a country where 81% of Chinese internet users went online using their mobile phone in 2013.
To launch spam campaigns, cybercriminals often use a GSM modem, a device attached via USB to a computer, which can send out text messages to multiple users.
At the end of 2013 there were 500 million mobile internet users in China, according the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).


Mr Chappell has a 10-year ban on travelling to the US after twice overstaying on a visitors' visa.
Mr Chappell said he could not get a job because he needs to look after their three-year-old daughter, Emma. An Immigration Tribunal judge said David Chappell, from Peterborough, had to have an income of �18,600 before his wife Brandi could be granted a visa.
The judge said he should seek part-time work to supplement his navy pension.


Also operating on the mobile underground are app-rank boosting services, which can promote a malicious app by creating several dummy accounts to download and write good user reviews for it. Currently they only run on Android phones.
Boosting apps Apple users are also being targeted via iMessage spammers that are able to buy 1,000 spam services for as little as 100 yuan (�9.60).
To boost an iPhone app into the top five of Apple's China app store can cost 60,000 yuan (�5,800).

Some of the corporation's most popular shows include Strictly Come Dancing, Call the Midwife and Doctor Who. nMr Cohen added: "I think if we want to bring in really smart people and generate [intellectual property] - which will end up making money that will go back into the licence fee - people participating in that, in order to get the best people, then we have to look at and examine what's possible."But in reality getting the order was the easiest part," he adds. That's what the Sahota family thought in 2010 when their chilli sauce was picked up by Asda in front of millions of TV viewers on the BBC programme High Street Dreams. nThe family shrieked with delight, and the tears flowed. n"We thought we had made it,' recalls Kuldip Singh Sahota.

nMade in the kitchen The story starts in the mid-1980s, with a recipe for a chilli sauce perfected by Hardev Singh Sahota, made in the kitchen of the family's east London home. nThe sauce was so popular with friends and relatives that Hardev began to sell small quantities locally. nThe problem was that both manufacturing and sales were hard work, and the business never really got off the ground. In fact, within a year the company, Mr Singh's Sauce, had nearly gone under and is only now back on the road to success.

They wanted to add in all these bits and pieces to stabilise it and make it easier to produce."
The family struggled to keep up with demand in the early days Within nine months the Asda contract had fizzled out. nThings then got worse. "But to find someone who wanted to match that enthusiasm and produce a product we were happy with was nigh on impossible. At one point the company invested heavily in 10,000 bottles from China that were of such poor quality they had to be thrown away.


It said it also planned to make changes to firefighters' shifts and cut budgets for support staff to save money. It has agreed a new budget plan which includes a rise in its council tax precept by 2p a week per household. It had proposed shutting the retained stations at Baschurch, Clun, Hodnet and Prees to save about �390,000.
The service needs to save �1.7m by 2020.

This won't be reassuring, but the answer is no-one really knows.
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Prosecutors allege Pistorius, 27, shot his model and reality TV star girlfriend through the bathroom door at his home on Valentines' Day in 2013.
An online petition, claiming that making money from the trial is "vile" and "offensive", has been signed by 120,000 people. Pistorius claims he mistook her for an intruder. The campaign was run to coincide with the Oscar ceremony in Los Angeles and the first day of Pistorius' trial in South Africa, for which the bookmaker is offering odds.


'Borrow food money' "Mr Jenkins realised this was a golden opportunity to make money dishonestly," said Mr Speak. The defendant invented preposterous charges for this work, amounting to thousands and thousands of pounds. Jenkins, of Poets Chase, Aylesbury, worked as a general purpose builder, but by 2008 had either stopped working, had run out of work or was semi-retired, the court heard.
"He persuaded Mrs Stubbings to have an endless succession of work on her house.
Mrs Stubbings had seen his "defunct" advert in the Yellow Pages and contacted him to carry out work on drains at her home.

Two full-time fire engines in both Shrewsbury and Telford would be retained it said.
Andy Johnson, from the fire service, said: "The potential risks including increased response times certainly don't warrant the loss of those stations and the saving of the relatively little amount of money accrued if we make that change."
Paul Ridgeley, from Baschurch Parish Council, which campaigned to save the fire station, said he was "absolutely delighted"

Chelsea Football Club has cost Roman Abramovich a lot of money, but at the same time has made him into a highly recognisable figure around the world. A similar argument might explain why rich individuals buy football clubs.


Mr Pistorius is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered the bookmaker to remove the newspaper advert, which offers "money back" on bets if the South African athlete is found not guilty of murder.
More than 5,200 complaints have already been made, the ASA said.


"Now that his daughter is aged three, there are more free nursery hours available to her which would make his search for employment easier."
She also suggested the family could be reunited if Mr Chappell moved to another European Union country where UK income restrictions do not apply. "All I ask is that I have my family together but I can't have that. I have never asked for anything else and I feel very badly treated."
Judge Claire Hawden-Beal said: "All the sponsor needs is part-time work sufficient to make up the difference between his pension and the �18,600 minimum financial requirement.


He told journalist Tara Conlan: "I think the idea that if you come up with a global hit, you should in some way benefit from that beyond your basic wage, doesn't seem unreasonable." Danny Cohen's comments were published in a book called Is the BBC in Crisis? and have appeared in The Independent.

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