londonblue
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I don't use the bus as often now as I did a few years back, but then it was generally the people with cash that took ages, and people paying on their phone that were 10 times quicker.
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I only use them because i've got my OAP bus pass, & it's nice ( plus a rarity ) to get something for nothing!.
londonblue
Topgun Pilot
Show off!
Supershrimper
First XI⭐
Other than being completely moronic as it's not dark enough the people that have let them off seem to have no respect.
I do feel that fireworks should only be used at displays and by those with relevant certification. Each year you hear of fireworks being aimed at cars, people. Even pushed through letter boxes.
Romford: Family of woman killed by firework arson 'massively affected'
The son of a woman killed when a firework was put in her letterbox calls for tighter regulation.
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Deaths are occurring because of them.
Premier League speaks out on man jailed for selling firesticks letting people stream matches - Fan Banter
The Premier League speaks out on a 29 year old man who has been jailed for selling firesticks, letting people stream matches. Jonathan Edge from Liverpool was sentenced to two years and three months in prison for selling modified Amazon Firesticks that allowed users to illegally stream Premier...
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2 years 3 months.. Jesus!
Mad Cyril
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Premier League speaks out on man jailed for selling firesticks letting people stream matches - Fan Banter
The Premier League speaks out on a 29 year old man who has been jailed for selling firesticks, letting people stream matches. Jonathan Edge from Liverpool was sentenced to two years and three months in prison for selling modified Amazon Firesticks that allowed users to illegally stream Premier...
2 years 3 months.. Jesus!
He was out on licence for a previous offence of dealing cocaine.
The 'Robin Hood' defence of providing football to those who could not otherwise afford it is ridiculous.
This is theft pure and simple and it sounds like he got off pretty lightly.
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He'd also ignored a warning to stop selling or be prosecuted.
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The Ingram-Moore's, basically found guilty of gross self benefit and directing funds expected to go to Charity, to themselves.
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By
Martin Fricker
EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 2 File photo dated 16/04/2020 of Captain Sir Tom Moore whose daughter has said she can still "see and feel" her father "in everything" a year after his death. The Second World War veteran inspired hope during the first national Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, raising £38.9 million for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday. He died on February 2 last year with coronavirus. Issue date: Wednesday February 2, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story MEMORIAL CaptainTom. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire
The family of hero fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore pocketed £1m in his name, a damning investigation has found.
Sir Tom's daughter and her husband gained 'significant' financial benefit from links to a charity set up during the pandemic, a watchdog's report said. A probe of The Captain Tom Foundation by the Charity Commission uncovered 'repeatedly failures of governance and integrity'.
The World War II hero raised nearly £39 million during the Covid-19 crisis by walking 100 lengths of his garden ahead of his 100th birthday. His fundraising efforts captured the nation's hearts and led to a record-breaking flood of donations from well-wishers.
He was given a BBC Sports Personality of the Year award and performed in a chart-topping music single. Sir Tom was knighted by the Queen in July 2020 and died, aged 100, in February 2021 after contracting Covid-19.
The Captain Tom Foundation was set up by his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, and her husband, Colin, 66, in his honour. However, it became the subject of several allegations, leading to investigations by the Charity Commission and Fundraising Regulator.
The Charity Commission first opened a compliance case in March 2021 and began reviewing the organisation's setup. It opened a statutory inquiry - usually reserved for only the most serious cases - in June 2022.
Captain Sir Tom Moore celebrates his 100th birthday (Image: Cpl Robert Weideman/MOD / SWNS)
Now the watchdog's report has been published - and is damning in its criticism of Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin.
It concluded there had been repeated instances of misconduct by the pair, who have already been banned from being charity trustees. The report said the couple's "misconduct and/or mismanagement" was a "repeated pattern of behaviour".
It revealed sales of Captain Tom's autobiography 'Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day' did not benefit The Captain Tom Foundation. In the book's foreword, he wrote of being given "the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name."
Instead, an advance of £1.4m for the three-book deal was paid to Club Nook - a company of which the Ingram-Moores are directors.
Queen Elizabeth II knights Captain Sir Thomas Moore (Image: Getty Images)
Literary agent Bev James, who represented Captain Tom, said the couple were "very clear" they did not want the money to go to charity. The Commission said that "to date, the charity has not received any money from the first publishing agreement".
It said the public "would understandably feel misled" to learn that the charity did not benefit from the book sales. The report said their failure to honour the donation "has seriously damaged the reputation of the charity".
It called on the couple to make a "suitable donation" to "honour the commitment that Captain Tom stated in the foreword" to the book. It said there was evidence Mrs Ingram-Moore set out expectations for a £150,000 salary before becoming the charity's chief executive.
It also revealed she personally pocketed an £18,000 fee for appearing at an awards ceremony. Just £2,000 was donated to the charity after she claimed her appearance at the Virgin Media Awards was undertaken in a personal capacity.
The commission criticised the couple for using the foundation's name in a planning application for a spa pool block at their Bedfordshire home. Mrs Ingram-Moore and her husband said it had been an error which they blamed on being busy "undertaking global media work".
Planners gave "significant weight... to the fact that the charity was to use the proposed building for its charitable purposes," the report said. But the £200,000 block was demolished earlier this year after a revised planning application did not feature the word "charity" or "foundation".
The report authors said evidence suggests the couple "were using the charity and its name inappropriately for their private benefit". Charity commission bosses also criticised confusion over the handling of intellectual property rights.
Image of Captain Sir Tom Moore beamed onto a screen at Piccadilly Circus.
The report said those rights were owned by the family but offered to the foundation to use without appropriate agreements in place. This led to possible financial losses to the charity, it stated.
In July the Ingram-Moores described the Charity Commission's investigation as a "harrowing and debilitating ordeal". But its chief executive David Holdsworth said the foundation had "not lived up to that legacy of others before self, which is central to charity".
He said the Ingram-Moores had failed to "make an unambiguous distinction between their personal interests and those of the charity and the beneficiaries they are there to serve". "We found repeated instances of a blurring of boundaries between private and charitable interests, with Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore receiving significant personal benefit," he added. "Together the failings amount to misconduct and/or mismanagement."
Hannah Ingram-Moore, daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore (Image: PA)
The commission has not called on the foundation to close, but a lawyer for the family has previously indicated the charity might shut down. It stopped taking donations in the summer of 2023. Money raised for the NHS, which was donated to NHS Charities Together, was not part of the scope of the Charity Commission inquiry.
The Captain Tom Foundation was registered in June 2020 following his fundraising efforts, which attracted worldwide publicity. Its first annual accounts showed the charity incurred £240,000 in costs and gave £160,000 to good causes. It has previously been claimed that a 'Captain Sir Tom' gin sold to raise money for the foundation breached charity law. Bottles of the gin had been on offer for £100 on Otterbeck Distillery's website, with an "all profits" donation to the foundation.
The limited edition 50cl bottles were being sold without specifying the amount going to charity, as it legally required. A spokesman representing the distillery and foundation said "around £30" would go to charity "after duty and production costs". It was eventually removed from sale.
A spokesperson for the Captain Tom Foundation said: "The Captain Tom Foundation is pleased with the Charity Commission's unequivocal findings regarding the Ingram-Moores' misconduct. We join the Charity Commission in imploring the Ingram-Moores to rectify matters by returning the funds due to the Foundation, so that they can be donated to well-deserving charities as intended by the late Captain Sir Tom Moore. We hope they do so immediately and without the need for further action."
The Ingram-Moores said they felt "unfairly and unjustly" treated and accused the commission of "selective storytelling". They said: "A credible regulatory body would provide the full truth, rather than misrepresenting, and conflating facts and timelines that align with a predetermined agenda.
"True accountability demands transparency, not selective storytelling." They said the inquiry had taken a "serious toll on our family's mental and physical health, unfairly tarnishing our name and affecting our ability to carry on Captain Sir Tom's legacy".
Captain Sir Tom Moore's daughter and her husband pocketed £1million in Second World War hero's name
The damning report says Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin gained 'significant' financial benefit from links to a charity set up to honour Capt Tom
News
By
Martin Fricker
- 07:51, 21 NOV 2024
- Updated09:51, 21 NOV 2024
EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 2 File photo dated 16/04/2020 of Captain Sir Tom Moore whose daughter has said she can still "see and feel" her father "in everything" a year after his death. The Second World War veteran inspired hope during the first national Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, raising £38.9 million for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday. He died on February 2 last year with coronavirus. Issue date: Wednesday February 2, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story MEMORIAL CaptainTom. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire
The family of hero fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore pocketed £1m in his name, a damning investigation has found.
Sir Tom's daughter and her husband gained 'significant' financial benefit from links to a charity set up during the pandemic, a watchdog's report said. A probe of The Captain Tom Foundation by the Charity Commission uncovered 'repeatedly failures of governance and integrity'.
The World War II hero raised nearly £39 million during the Covid-19 crisis by walking 100 lengths of his garden ahead of his 100th birthday. His fundraising efforts captured the nation's hearts and led to a record-breaking flood of donations from well-wishers.
He was given a BBC Sports Personality of the Year award and performed in a chart-topping music single. Sir Tom was knighted by the Queen in July 2020 and died, aged 100, in February 2021 after contracting Covid-19.
The Captain Tom Foundation was set up by his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, and her husband, Colin, 66, in his honour. However, it became the subject of several allegations, leading to investigations by the Charity Commission and Fundraising Regulator.
The Charity Commission first opened a compliance case in March 2021 and began reviewing the organisation's setup. It opened a statutory inquiry - usually reserved for only the most serious cases - in June 2022.
Captain Sir Tom Moore celebrates his 100th birthday (Image: Cpl Robert Weideman/MOD / SWNS)
Now the watchdog's report has been published - and is damning in its criticism of Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin.
It concluded there had been repeated instances of misconduct by the pair, who have already been banned from being charity trustees. The report said the couple's "misconduct and/or mismanagement" was a "repeated pattern of behaviour".
It revealed sales of Captain Tom's autobiography 'Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day' did not benefit The Captain Tom Foundation. In the book's foreword, he wrote of being given "the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name."
Instead, an advance of £1.4m for the three-book deal was paid to Club Nook - a company of which the Ingram-Moores are directors.
Queen Elizabeth II knights Captain Sir Thomas Moore (Image: Getty Images)
Literary agent Bev James, who represented Captain Tom, said the couple were "very clear" they did not want the money to go to charity. The Commission said that "to date, the charity has not received any money from the first publishing agreement".
It said the public "would understandably feel misled" to learn that the charity did not benefit from the book sales. The report said their failure to honour the donation "has seriously damaged the reputation of the charity".
It called on the couple to make a "suitable donation" to "honour the commitment that Captain Tom stated in the foreword" to the book. It said there was evidence Mrs Ingram-Moore set out expectations for a £150,000 salary before becoming the charity's chief executive.
It also revealed she personally pocketed an £18,000 fee for appearing at an awards ceremony. Just £2,000 was donated to the charity after she claimed her appearance at the Virgin Media Awards was undertaken in a personal capacity.
The commission criticised the couple for using the foundation's name in a planning application for a spa pool block at their Bedfordshire home. Mrs Ingram-Moore and her husband said it had been an error which they blamed on being busy "undertaking global media work".
Planners gave "significant weight... to the fact that the charity was to use the proposed building for its charitable purposes," the report said. But the £200,000 block was demolished earlier this year after a revised planning application did not feature the word "charity" or "foundation".
The report authors said evidence suggests the couple "were using the charity and its name inappropriately for their private benefit". Charity commission bosses also criticised confusion over the handling of intellectual property rights.
Image of Captain Sir Tom Moore beamed onto a screen at Piccadilly Circus.
The report said those rights were owned by the family but offered to the foundation to use without appropriate agreements in place. This led to possible financial losses to the charity, it stated.
In July the Ingram-Moores described the Charity Commission's investigation as a "harrowing and debilitating ordeal". But its chief executive David Holdsworth said the foundation had "not lived up to that legacy of others before self, which is central to charity".
He said the Ingram-Moores had failed to "make an unambiguous distinction between their personal interests and those of the charity and the beneficiaries they are there to serve". "We found repeated instances of a blurring of boundaries between private and charitable interests, with Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore receiving significant personal benefit," he added. "Together the failings amount to misconduct and/or mismanagement."
Hannah Ingram-Moore, daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore (Image: PA)
The commission has not called on the foundation to close, but a lawyer for the family has previously indicated the charity might shut down. It stopped taking donations in the summer of 2023. Money raised for the NHS, which was donated to NHS Charities Together, was not part of the scope of the Charity Commission inquiry.
The Captain Tom Foundation was registered in June 2020 following his fundraising efforts, which attracted worldwide publicity. Its first annual accounts showed the charity incurred £240,000 in costs and gave £160,000 to good causes. It has previously been claimed that a 'Captain Sir Tom' gin sold to raise money for the foundation breached charity law. Bottles of the gin had been on offer for £100 on Otterbeck Distillery's website, with an "all profits" donation to the foundation.
The limited edition 50cl bottles were being sold without specifying the amount going to charity, as it legally required. A spokesman representing the distillery and foundation said "around £30" would go to charity "after duty and production costs". It was eventually removed from sale.
A spokesperson for the Captain Tom Foundation said: "The Captain Tom Foundation is pleased with the Charity Commission's unequivocal findings regarding the Ingram-Moores' misconduct. We join the Charity Commission in imploring the Ingram-Moores to rectify matters by returning the funds due to the Foundation, so that they can be donated to well-deserving charities as intended by the late Captain Sir Tom Moore. We hope they do so immediately and without the need for further action."
The Ingram-Moores said they felt "unfairly and unjustly" treated and accused the commission of "selective storytelling". They said: "A credible regulatory body would provide the full truth, rather than misrepresenting, and conflating facts and timelines that align with a predetermined agenda.
"True accountability demands transparency, not selective storytelling." They said the inquiry had taken a "serious toll on our family's mental and physical health, unfairly tarnishing our name and affecting our ability to carry on Captain Sir Tom's legacy".
Tangled up in Blue
Certified Senior Citizen⭐🦐
I remember a good mate - an ex colleague and the guy I go to Espanyol games with -coming back from a fortnight's walking holiday in Wales so would have been after the summer- telling me that the only place he'd paid cash was the last night of their holiday when their taxi driver had insisted on cash from their B&B (to the station presumably).Thought it was bollox at the time -the context was me paying for our food & drinks at a bar in cash rather than by C/C ,which he described as "quaint".Usually I always prefer to pay in cash except for high cost items.
Tangled up in Blue
Certified Senior Citizen⭐🦐
He's not alone -I've got a free pass here for all public transport ,which I'm very proud to use.
Sandbach Shrimper
Life President⭐
The Ingram-Moore's, basically found guilty of gross self benefit and directing funds expected to go to Charity, to themselves.
Captain Sir Tom Moore's daughter and her husband pocketed £1million in Second World War hero's name
The damning report says Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin gained 'significant' financial benefit from links to a charity set up to honour Capt Tom
News
By
Martin Fricker
- 07:51, 21 NOV 2024
- Updated09:51, 21 NOV 2024
EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 2 File photo dated 16/04/2020 of Captain Sir Tom Moore whose daughter has said she can still "see and feel" her father "in everything" a year after his death. The Second World War veteran inspired hope during the first national Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, raising £38.9 million for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday. He died on February 2 last year with coronavirus. Issue date: Wednesday February 2, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story MEMORIAL CaptainTom. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire
The family of hero fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore pocketed £1m in his name, a damning investigation has found.
Sir Tom's daughter and her husband gained 'significant' financial benefit from links to a charity set up during the pandemic, a watchdog's report said. A probe of The Captain Tom Foundation by the Charity Commission uncovered 'repeatedly failures of governance and integrity'.
The World War II hero raised nearly £39 million during the Covid-19 crisis by walking 100 lengths of his garden ahead of his 100th birthday. His fundraising efforts captured the nation's hearts and led to a record-breaking flood of donations from well-wishers.
He was given a BBC Sports Personality of the Year award and performed in a chart-topping music single. Sir Tom was knighted by the Queen in July 2020 and died, aged 100, in February 2021 after contracting Covid-19.
The Captain Tom Foundation was set up by his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, and her husband, Colin, 66, in his honour. However, it became the subject of several allegations, leading to investigations by the Charity Commission and Fundraising Regulator.
The Charity Commission first opened a compliance case in March 2021 and began reviewing the organisation's setup. It opened a statutory inquiry - usually reserved for only the most serious cases - in June 2022.
Captain Sir Tom Moore celebrates his 100th birthday (Image: Cpl Robert Weideman/MOD / SWNS)
Now the watchdog's report has been published - and is damning in its criticism of Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin.
It concluded there had been repeated instances of misconduct by the pair, who have already been banned from being charity trustees. The report said the couple's "misconduct and/or mismanagement" was a "repeated pattern of behaviour".
It revealed sales of Captain Tom's autobiography 'Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day' did not benefit The Captain Tom Foundation. In the book's foreword, he wrote of being given "the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name."
Instead, an advance of £1.4m for the three-book deal was paid to Club Nook - a company of which the Ingram-Moores are directors.
Queen Elizabeth II knights Captain Sir Thomas Moore (Image: Getty Images)
Literary agent Bev James, who represented Captain Tom, said the couple were "very clear" they did not want the money to go to charity. The Commission said that "to date, the charity has not received any money from the first publishing agreement".
It said the public "would understandably feel misled" to learn that the charity did not benefit from the book sales. The report said their failure to honour the donation "has seriously damaged the reputation of the charity".
It called on the couple to make a "suitable donation" to "honour the commitment that Captain Tom stated in the foreword" to the book. It said there was evidence Mrs Ingram-Moore set out expectations for a £150,000 salary before becoming the charity's chief executive.
It also revealed she personally pocketed an £18,000 fee for appearing at an awards ceremony. Just £2,000 was donated to the charity after she claimed her appearance at the Virgin Media Awards was undertaken in a personal capacity.
The commission criticised the couple for using the foundation's name in a planning application for a spa pool block at their Bedfordshire home. Mrs Ingram-Moore and her husband said it had been an error which they blamed on being busy "undertaking global media work".
Planners gave "significant weight... to the fact that the charity was to use the proposed building for its charitable purposes," the report said. But the £200,000 block was demolished earlier this year after a revised planning application did not feature the word "charity" or "foundation".
The report authors said evidence suggests the couple "were using the charity and its name inappropriately for their private benefit". Charity commission bosses also criticised confusion over the handling of intellectual property rights.
Image of Captain Sir Tom Moore beamed onto a screen at Piccadilly Circus.
The report said those rights were owned by the family but offered to the foundation to use without appropriate agreements in place. This led to possible financial losses to the charity, it stated.
In July the Ingram-Moores described the Charity Commission's investigation as a "harrowing and debilitating ordeal". But its chief executive David Holdsworth said the foundation had "not lived up to that legacy of others before self, which is central to charity".
He said the Ingram-Moores had failed to "make an unambiguous distinction between their personal interests and those of the charity and the beneficiaries they are there to serve". "We found repeated instances of a blurring of boundaries between private and charitable interests, with Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore receiving significant personal benefit," he added. "Together the failings amount to misconduct and/or mismanagement."
Hannah Ingram-Moore, daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore (Image: PA)
The commission has not called on the foundation to close, but a lawyer for the family has previously indicated the charity might shut down. It stopped taking donations in the summer of 2023. Money raised for the NHS, which was donated to NHS Charities Together, was not part of the scope of the Charity Commission inquiry.
The Captain Tom Foundation was registered in June 2020 following his fundraising efforts, which attracted worldwide publicity. Its first annual accounts showed the charity incurred £240,000 in costs and gave £160,000 to good causes. It has previously been claimed that a 'Captain Sir Tom' gin sold to raise money for the foundation breached charity law. Bottles of the gin had been on offer for £100 on Otterbeck Distillery's website, with an "all profits" donation to the foundation.
The limited edition 50cl bottles were being sold without specifying the amount going to charity, as it legally required. A spokesman representing the distillery and foundation said "around £30" would go to charity "after duty and production costs". It was eventually removed from sale.
A spokesperson for the Captain Tom Foundation said: "The Captain Tom Foundation is pleased with the Charity Commission's unequivocal findings regarding the Ingram-Moores' misconduct. We join the Charity Commission in imploring the Ingram-Moores to rectify matters by returning the funds due to the Foundation, so that they can be donated to well-deserving charities as intended by the late Captain Sir Tom Moore. We hope they do so immediately and without the need for further action."
The Ingram-Moores said they felt "unfairly and unjustly" treated and accused the commission of "selective storytelling". They said: "A credible regulatory body would provide the full truth, rather than misrepresenting, and conflating facts and timelines that align with a predetermined agenda.
"True accountability demands transparency, not selective storytelling." They said the inquiry had taken a "serious toll on our family's mental and physical health, unfairly tarnishing our name and affecting our ability to carry on Captain Sir Tom's legacy".
No surprise. The whole thing was ridiculous, like a lot of things that went on during Covid - an old man walking laps of his garden. No one would've taken any notice if we hadn't all been locked in our own homes.
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