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Comedian Marcus Brigstocke used to do a routine about a particular segment of the daytime television-viewing public and the adverts designed...

Alegality. It's not a word that's particularly common in English, but it does exist and is generally used, as would be expected, in ...

The Panama papers continue to supply sensational reading. Spain's society - politics, royalty, business, the arts, sports - is implicate...

The BBC once cottoned on to the fact that a short Irishman was to be seen, year after year, in the winner's enclosure at the Grand Nat...

Next month, a judge in Palma will make a decision as to the nature of the bankruptcy that brought down the Orizonia travel group in Februa...

The trial of John Hirst and others at Bradford Crown Court has ended, sentencing to be given later this month, following the jury's guil...

The ongoing trial at Bradford Crown Court of John Hirst, charged with running an illegal Ponzi investment scheme based in Calvià, has heard ...

Finally, at 01.30 in the morning, the interrogations of the Duke of Palma (Iñaki Urdangarin) came to an end. At 04.15, he left the court, ha...

After the Lord Mayor's Show, this morning's events outside the court were quite different. It is Sunday morning after all. No more t...

Rarely has any event in Mallorca attracted as much interest as today's appearance by the Duke of Palma (Iñaki Urdangarin) at the court i...

The investigations by the Serious Fraud Office and the consequent trial in the UK of John Hirst and Richard Pollett, the two main accused in...

John Hirst, the former resident of Calvia who ran a Ponzi scheme and who is charged with conspiracy to defraud and money laundering, is due ...

The Guardia Civil has today released further information regarding its investigation into fraudulent butane-gas inspections that have been p...

The Guardia Civil has launched an operation investigating suspected fraud committed by a Palma company that sends inspectors to check gas in...

The glory that is corruption in Mallorca. The glory and the sheer stupidity. Gloriously stupid. The "Pasarela" operation into what...

Without even reading reports about the John Hirst case, one can guess at the language. "Shockwaves through the expatriate community...

This will doubtless be a story for some days to come. If you're not up to speed with it, here goes. John Hirst was an investor who lived...