Watchdog exposes Galliford’s £94m accounting errors

Watchdog exposes Galliford’s £94m accounting errors sending shares crashing 18% By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:27 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 00:32 GMT, 13 March 2020 Accounting errors by Galliford Try inflated its net assets by more than £94million. The construction business’s mistakes were uncovered by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), … Read more

Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy in self-isolation

2020 OLYMPIC GAMES  In doubt  The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more

Scotland Yard chiefs were ‘more interested in covering up their mistakes than learning from them’

Scotland Yard chiefs were more concerned with ‘restricting access’ to a damning judge-led report into the VIP child sex abuse scandal than learning lessons from it, according to police watchdogs. The Metropolitan Police’s shocking response to its disastrous ‘Nick’ inquiry is laid bare in a devastating report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary today. It … Read more

Harrowing account of: Facing death in the desert 

MEMOIR THINGS I LEARNED FROM FALLING    by Claire Nelson (Octopus £12.99, 272 pp) Dehydration is a God-awful business,’ says Claire Nelson. ‘Over time, your tongue becomes increasingly dry and scratchy, thickening like a wool mitten. My lips stuck to my gums like Velcro. ‘From there, you feel it in your head; a slowly increasing pressure … Read more