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A small group of investors, such as Lin and Bill Hopper (pictured) who were advised to invest £630,000 in Arch Cru, have been 'badly let down' and potentially could get back no more than half their money.

The social networking giant paid £2.9m of corporation tax - including less than £240,000 in Britain - last year despite making more than £800m in overseas profits in 2011.

Hundreds of thousands of public employees are demanding rises that would smash the one per cent limit announced by the Chancellor earlier this month.

Footballers including David Beckham (pictured), Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney, as well as other stars, have all put money into film partnerships.

Ubisense is a small business with big aspirations. It makes electronic tagging systems that help production lines work more efficiently and its products have been adopted by firms such as BMW and Jaguar.

Christmas savings company Park Group has tripled in value since Midas recommended it in July 2009. Tipped at 181/2p, the shares are 61p today and the outlook is upbeat as the group moves into new areas.

Lo-Q shares should gain further momentum following this month's £13.7million acquisition of American rival accesso.

As many as 60 investors bought into the pitch of a woman offering low-risk profits. Now a judge has ruled that the woman - who has gone by four different names and denied she had even met investors at all - lied.

I've been told by Aviva that it will not pay a final bonus on the endowment we have been saving into for 25 years. Is this correct and do we have rights to complain?

The Arch Cru debacle has been a regulatory fiasco from start to finish. Some of the guilty parties have paid a heavy price. Others have got off lightly.

Imagine having been told two decades ago that we would need to wait for years to get back to the living standards of the early Eighties. The uproar would have been unimaginable.

As more and more people are forced to rent their home we examine the case for further regulation in the rental sector.

HP has alleged that Autonomy, the British software company run by Mike Lynch, wilfully misrepresented its value when it acquired the business for £6.2billion last year.

Energy drinks manufacturer Red Bull gave its Formula 1 team a £3.5million marketing boost last year, driving its revenue to a record £108.5million, according to Christian Horner, the boss of the racing outfit.

Heather Morris, 29, spent just £100 and got £500 worth of Christmas presents - we reveal how her money saving antics helped save her festive season

The technology to enable mobile phone users to block the nuisance texts is available, but moves to implement it have stalled due to a disagreement on who should pay.

Economic growth for the third quarter has been revised down from one to 0.9 per cent, while public borrowing unexpectedly rose last month by £1.2 billion.

Low-paid workers concerned about being forced onto a pension plan they can ill afford have been thrown a lifeline by a loophole in automatic enrolment rules.

Over the past two years the recession has really hit me and I have got my finances into a bit of a state. What can I do?

Figures from Halifax Home Insurance revealed a 25 per cent rise in burglary claims last December, compared to the festive period in 2010.

Laws which make criminals out of anyone who copies files are to be scrapped and record companies are to be banned from blocking spoof versions of hit songs.

How big will my retirement income be if my pension pot is at the soon-to-be-introduced tax-free lifetime allowance limit of £1.25 million?

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith (pictured) reveals he is studying the practicalities of a welfare card to stop handouts being used for alcohol or drugs.

The Dutch internet bank has written to 1.4m savers and some 70,000 mortgage customers giving them details of the switch to one of Britain’s biggest High Street banks.

The Irish low-fare carrier had an overall satisfaction score of just 34 per cent in a table compiled from Which? members' votes.

Households need to beware because a few film nights could land you with an eye-watering bill from your broadband provider because many internet contracts have limits on the amount of data families can use

Workers baffled by constant changes to the state pension can ask for a personal estimate of when they will retire and how much they’ll receive.

Official figures show house prices were up 1.5 per cent in the year to October – but more than half of the rise was delivered by London and the South East.

Cuts have been made on accounts for new savers for months now, but it is only recently that they have turned their guns on loyal savers - including those in accounts which are no longer open.