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    A charity that made unauthorised payments and failed to keep proper records of decision-making is the first to have received an official warning from the Charity Commission. The Derbyshire based National Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline was set up by Wendy Watson in 1996 after she underwent a pre-emptive double mastectomy the same procedure that Hollywood star Angelina Jolie had four years earlier, when she was 37. Figures from the accounts show that in 2014/15 the charity's total expenses were £909,634 of which only three per cent, or £27,403, was listed as being spent on charitable activities, with £874,539 set down as fundraising expenses and other costs. The following financial year, total expenses were £947,824, of which £929,975 was spent on charitable activities. T...

    Ukip’s decision to allow an anti Islam campaigner onto the leadership ballot has threatened to split the party in two, with a number of high profile members threatening to quit if she wins the race to succeed Paul Nuttall. The selection of Anne Marie Waters, who founded the Sharia Watch pressure group, has polarised the party, with former leader Nigel Farage warning that Ukip will be finished if it places Islam at the heart of its agenda. Other Ukip members are understood to share Mr Farage’s concerns, with several pointing to Paul Nuttall’s divisive burka ban during the general election as evidence that anti-Islamic policies are harming the party’s fortunes. Ms Water’s announcement as candidate has already resulted in senior official Mike Hookem resigning his position as ...

    David Davis backed a City high-flyer’s appeal against a huge fine for insider dealing a month after accepting a lucrative position at one of his companies, the Observer has established. The Brexit secretary has been a staunch ally of star banker Ian Hannam for many years. Both men were members of 21 SAS Reserve Regiment and Hannam donated £2,000 to Davis’s Tory leadership campaign in 2005. But their relationship deepened in 2012 when Davis criticised the Financial Services Authority in its pursuit of the City’s leading dealmaker, who was forced to leave his job with JP Morgan after being found guilty of market abuse. The £450,000 fine imposed by the FSA (replaced by the Financial Conduct Authority or FCA in 2013) was one of the largest handed down to an individual and was ...

    A CCTV image, received via the Metropolitan Police, shows a male jogger on Putney Bridge in London. The man arrested in the jogger rage attack in London is a 50-year-old American who is a partner at a private equity firm in an affluent section of the city, according to a report. Eric Bellquist was detained on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after a 33-year-old woman was bumped into the path of a bus on a bridge, the London Evening Standard reported. The graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder has denied being the jogger saying he was in the US at the time of the May 5 incident on the Putney Bridge, according to the paper. Bellquist works for Hutton Collins Partners, which owns restaurant chains, and sits on the chains’ boards as a non-executive director...

    Prince Harry ’s girlfriend Meghan Markle has won her first seal of approval from the Royal Family. But the American telly star has been warned that joining The Firm, as the royals are nicknamed, will be nerve-racking. Speaking exclusively to the Sunday People , Zara Phillips husband Mike Tindall is the first member of the royals to publicly comment on Harry’s year-long relationship with the 36-year-old beauty from the TV legal drama Suits. Ex-England rugby star Mike, married to Harry’s cousin, is confident the actress will survive the same intense public scrutiny that he experienced after joining The Firm. Mike, 38, a commoner like Meghan, said: “It comes with a lot of history and the family that it is. It’s obviously nerve-racking. But she has been under enough scru...

    Theresa May will put herself on a collision course with Dublin this week by insisting on a post-Brexit trading border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. A crucial position paper is expected to stick to Britain’s current plan to use smart technology and spot checks to police the flow of goods between the two countries after 2019. The stance will anger the Irish Government, which fears the impact on the peace process in the North and has pushed for the Irish Sea to become the post-Brexit border with the UK instead. Alternatively, said the Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, Ms May should abandon her hard Brexit policy of leaving the EU customs union, which will make a border necessary. In recent weeks, the Taoiseach has made plain his growing frustration with Britain...