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Film Preview: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest Festival

All is not what it seems at The Invisible Dot‘s Swiss Spaghetti Harvest Festival, as they celebrate – appropriate to the season – the many ways the public has been duped by the media into believing a load of old bunkum. The third film to …

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2012 Scammers Start Early

Buy and sell any tickets. Any tickets to spare? Buy and sell any tickets. If you hear these phrases being muttered on the tube and at bus stops over the next few months, don’t be alarmed – it’s just the nation’s ticket touts and scammers warming …

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Barrister Caught in Faux Jet Engine Foible

When it comes to cons, John Wilmot, a City barrister, didn’t just go big, he went jumbo. He attempted to get £17.5 million in VAT repayments by claiming he bought and sold four Boeing 747 engines for £100 million. What a barrister would be doing …