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No prizes for guessing the most compelling political message delivered in last weeks council elections. Unfortunately, it was also a lie.

Ukraine now has powerful new American missiles which can travel almost 200 miles. Funnily enough, neither Washington nor Kiev were too keen to make this fact public.

AstraZeneca hiked its dividend to persuade shareholders to accept CEO Pascal Soriot’s pay rise. Is he worth his salary?

Prior to the New Labour general election landslide of 1997, I learned through reliable City sources that the partys Chancellor-in-waiting, Gordon Brown, were planning a tax grab on Britains pension funds.

The official numbers show the economy is in rude health, with almost full employment and the number of vacancies standing at 932,000 in January, down from 1.16million a year earlier.

In the Middle-East RAF Typhoon jets, operating out of Cyprus, have been flying the arduous 3,000 mile journey to Yemen to attack Houthi rebels.

Exciting as all this might appear as a longstanding investor in NatWest - in its previous Royal Bank of Scotland guise - my advice would be to steer well clear.

JONATHAN MILLER: The fact is that the EU, Frances greatest creation, faces an existential crisis, riven by schism and corruption.

On 1 January 1999, 11 of the 15 countries of the EU adopted the euro as their common currency

Given that company equipment are used to access the private account, it was my assumption that double verification and firewalls would largely protect me from scammers.