Prosecutors investigate if Trump inflated value of Seven Springs compound for tax breaks

New York prosecutors are focusing their criminal probe on former President Donald Trump’s ‘real life Wayne Manor’ to investigate if the value of Seven Springs compound was inflated for tax breaks, it has been reported. Prosecutors have obtained dozens of land deal records relating to Trump’s Seven Springs estate, a 60-room sandstone chateau in downstate New … Read more

World’s oldest balloon stays inflated for nearly 30 years

World’s oldest balloon is still inflated nearly 30 years after grandmother bought it to mark her grandson’s birth Ryan Harrison, 28, was given balloon from grandmother Josephine, 82, in 1992 The inflatable features a picture of a bear and is from brand Forever Friends Balloon was re-discovered when his parents were trawling through old boxes By … Read more

Lorraine Kelly left ‘terrified’ as she’s shown mock-up of herself with inflated lips and Botox

Lorraine Kelly was left horrified on Tuesday morning as she was shown a mock-up of how she’d look with lip fillers and Botox. The presenter, 61, was left reeling in shock and exclaimed: ‘I’m so terrified’ as an image of her with inflated lips and puffy cheeks flashed up on screen.  Lorraine had been joined … Read more

Inflated marks could lead to record applications for further education, regulator warns 

Grade hikes ‘may swamp universities’: Inflated marks for scrapped A levels could lead to record applications for further education, regulator warns Office for Students has urged university admission officers not to ‘over-recruit’ Fears universities could be swamped by too many students given top grades The Office warned universities faced punishments if courses are too packed … Read more

Facebook accused of misleading advertisers with inflated and ‘wrong’ figures

Facebook is accused of misleading advertisers with inflated and ‘wrong’ figures about how many users adverts reach Facebook has been fighting a lawsuit over claims it overstated advertisers’ reach Employees warned about ‘revenue we should never have made’, filings show ‘Potential reach metric’ informs advertisers of their potential online audience Bosses allegedly chose not to … Read more

Ministers are urged to speed up their review into ‘inflated’ daily Covid-19 death figures

Professor Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the prestigious university, questioned why the review was taking so long and claimed it should be a ‘straightforward’ fix Pressure is mounting on ministers to speed up an official review into the way coronavirus deaths are calculated amid claims the daily counts were being inflated.  … Read more

Daily death toll ‘is being INFLATED and fewer than 40 people are dying per day in the UK’

The Government’s official count of coronavirus deaths is too high and fewer than 40 people are actually dying per day now, two top statisticians have claimed.  Department of Health officials yesterday 85 more Britons had died, along with 138 on Tuesday, and its daily average for the past week has been 75. But Oxford University … Read more