STILL 4.4 BILLION UNCLAIMED
Remember those offensive TV adverts about benefit fraud? What the government doesn't tell you is that the amount of unclaimed benefit comes to between £2 billion and £4.4 billion a year; and that doesn't include disability benefits. That's between two and four times what they pay out in fraudulent claims. Kind of puts fraud into perspective, doesn't it? Do you think government agencies, filling their wellies with taxpayers money, will put adverts on the TV telling us how to claim the right benefits?

MORE 2/3 HOMES FOR THEM AND FOR US?
Plans for Liverpool's first £1m luxury penthouses have been deferred. The reasons being that lending institutions don't like giving money to buildings with mixed uses such as offices etc. Though the plans to build the £1Million penthouses are still to go ahead. The developers, a Mr. McLean and we think MDHC, are at present spending £150 Million on developing the docks.
At present the most expensive penthouses are £500,000 at Beetham Plaza, on the city's nearby Strand. These are owned by Beethams.
I wonder how many community centres, how many facilities; local communities could get with this money? Do we notice any local people gaining from these projects? Ever feel like a ghost in your own city?

PROFESSIONAL TERRORISTS
A solicitor who terrorized homeowners in Liverpool by threatening to re-possess their properties was yesterday fined £25,000.
He targeted homeowners who owed as little as £6.50 in Liverpool, Newcastle and Manchester saying they now owned £250. Lenders terrorfied of losing their security often paid up.
Terry Hodge, of Wavertree, said he owed £11.54 in ground rent but was given a bill for £256.66. "I thought it was a scam. I had never been sent a demand, " he said.
Stevenson devised the "intimatory" letters when working for Simarc Property Management and its associated companies, which had acquired properties in the North and wanted them assessed by him.
Some people rob you with a gun some with a fountain pen. We know and our readers know that, loads of these professionals are scamming money out of ordinary people by sending demands on flashy headed notepaper. We aim to expose these university-educated gangsters. contact PNP.

COUNCIL CHUCKING KIDS OUT
Local residents are fighting the council over plans to close down a nursery in Faulkner Street and Chatsworth Street in the city centre. The council are claiming they are only carrying out 'urgent repairs'. But after the council closed down 3 other nurseries in the area, residents have wised up to them. The protesters say they will not give up their fight easily.