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A career criminal has been jailed after orchestrating an elaborate Gift Aid fraud that netted him more than £700,000 in public funds.Abdul Robbani, 54, who lives in Chelmsford, submitted bogus charitable donation claims to HMRC over a 14-month period from March 2020 to May 2021.The fraudster established a community amateur sports club called RMI Club, which served as a vehicle for his criminal scheme.Through this organisation, he filed 60 fraudulent Gift Aid applications worth more than £1million.HMRC paid out £708,750 before his scam was finally uncovered.Robbani falsely claimed that 716 people had each given between £5,000 and £10,000 to his…

Andy Burnham faces one less obstacle in his path to No10 after Darren Jones confirmed he will not stand in the looming Labour leadership contest.The Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister ruled out standing to replace Sir Keir Starmer after crunch talks with the former Greater Manchester Mayor cooled fears over his economic plans.Mr Jones, a close ally of Sir Keir, went as far as to declare “Andy Burnham is going to be the next Prime Minister” as he questioned what the value of him standing would be.Asked by Sky News if he was going to stand, he said: “I’m…

The council said falling pupil numbers across the local authority had made the decision unavoidable.Dewi Jones, cabinet member for education, said Cyngor Gwynedd had about 9,000 children in its primary schools in 2016, but that had dropped to just over 7,800.Jones told the meeting at which the closure was confirmed that it was one of the most difficult decisions he had faced.”Nobody goes into education in order to close schools,” he said.”Our ambition is to see schools thriving, children succeeding and communities staying strong.”But he said the council had a responsibility to consider the current situation facing the school.”The demographic…

“For Thomas Tuchel, I now expect changes on Saturday night against Panama,” former England captain Wayne Rooney told BBC Sport.”England probed, but there are little details throughout that game that Tuchel will look at with the team and try on improve on.”When a team is sitting in a low block, you have to cross the ball. It is very difficult to defend against. I don’t think we crossed the ball enough in 90 minutes.”England captain Harry Kane was so well marshalled that he only had two touches in the Ghana penalty area in the first half, although he blazed a…

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Not long after the UK left the EU in 2020, a Bristol-based firm called Eskimo started selling a new kind of high-fashion and energy-efficient electric radiator, based on new technology developed by academics in the city.They planned to send them around Europe using the Channel Tunnel.It was a timely product given Europe’s green ambitions, and with orders flowing, its Birmingham factory was being kept busy.The boss Phil Ward tells me his start-up has continued to grow, but that in his view it could have been so much more without what he calls “the Long Brexit effect”: in 2020, 40% of…

It will be fascinating to see how much of the old magic Neymar can conjure, but you suspect if Brazil are to be a fixture at the business end of this tournament, it will be Vincius who will be the catalyst.Two goals in two games, including a fabulous equaliser when Brazil were 1-0 down and struggling with the all-round excellence of Morocco, has prevented an underwhelming start to the tournament becoming something more concerning.”He’s playing very well,” said Ancelotti, who managed the Brazilian star at Real Madrid before taking over the Selecao in 2025.”We need to use him even though…

When Antoine Semenyo signed for Bournemouth, he sent former Leeds United manager David Hockaday a bottle of Champagne.An unlikely duo? Perhaps. But if anyone can take credit for Semenyo’s rise, it is Hockaday.On the label of the bottle read the words “hunger and belief”.Words that resonated with Semenyo so much as a teenager that, at the biggest moment of his career to that point, he felt the need to reiterate them to the man who instilled them in him.Semenyo’s journey to the top has been a complicated one. The failed academy trials, the 5am starts to play non-league football, the…

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