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The Mermaid Inn in Rye has been an Inn for around 700 years. There are MANY cases of ghosts being seen in this pub. We spent the night here, but only heard the ghosts. ;-)The street is Mermaid Street, and the Inn is the building with the vines on the right, (the sign is washed out by the lights) co. flickr.com

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• KPMG administrators rack up £2.4m fees for JJB
  • Date: 10 May 2013
  • Rachael Singh Hedge Funds Review KPMG ADMINISTRATORS have racked up £2.4m in time costs for their work on the pre-pack administration of JJB Sports. Brian Green, David Costley-Wood and Richard Fleming, partners at KPMG, were appointed joint administrators on 1 October 2012. The administrators are claiming £2.4m in fees for 6,993.41 hours of work for time spent on JJB for the period 1 October 2012 to 31 March 2013, according to a post-administration report. ...     
  
• FRC launches KPMG audit probes
  • Date: 10 May 2013
  • Richard Crump Hedge Funds Review THE UK REPORTING WATCHDOG is to scrutinise KPMG's audit work after launching two separate investigations into the Big Four accountancy firm. The Financial Reporting Council said yesterday it was investigating whether KPMG was independent when it audited Pendragon's 2010 and 2011 financial statements, as well as investigating a partner's shareholding in a client company. It is understood the investigation relates to the appointment of former KPMG partner Mel Egglenton to Pendragon...     
  
• HP board sued over Autonomy acquisition
  • Date: 10 May 2013
  • Rachael Singh Hedge Funds Review HP BOARD MEMBERS are facing a lawsuit after shareholders filed a claim against them this week. The shareholders are angry at the "waste of billions of dollars of HP assets" from the botched acquisition of British company Autonomy which has transpired to be worth just a fraction of the $11bn (£7.2bn) paid. The recent lawsuit claims that board members were aware of the issues at Autonomy prior to the acquisition. The...     
  
• Ex-KPMG partner takes BDO role
  • Date: 13 May 2013
  • Rachael Singh Hedge Funds Review FORMER KPMG PARTNER David Fletcher has joined BDO to head up its restructuring and advisory team. Fletcher, who worked at KPMG for more than 12 years, will work in the business restructuring team at BDO. He has more than 20 years' experience in the field and has particular expertise on complex UK and international cases. Fletcher said: "They [BDO] have a tremendous reputation in the market for client service and innovation...     
  
• C&W Worldwide chief financial officer joins Ricardo
  • Date: 13 May 2013
  • Richard Crump Hedge Funds Review RICARDO HAS APPOINTED Ian Gibson, chief financial officer of Cable & Wireless Worldwide (C&WW), as its new CFO, the engineering consultant said today. Gibson joins Ricardo with effect from 15 May, having served as C&WW chief financial officer until the company was acquired by Vodafone in July last year. A member of the ICAEW, Gibson spent 17 years at Cable & Wireless Group, most latterly at CW&W, where he played a...     
  
• £150,000 tax fraud accountant faces jail
  • Date: 13 May 2013
  • Calum Fuller Hedge Funds Review A NOTTINGHAMSHIRE-BASED ACCOUNTANT has been jailed after an investigation conducted by HM Revenue & Customs found he had claimed fraudulent expenses totalling £153,000. Ronald Moncrieff claimed fictitious expenses in his own tax returns as well as falsifying returns on behalf of his wife and son. He also claimed expenses for work by subcontractors when in fact he never employed any. A raid of his premises in October 2012 uncovered documents showing...     
  
• FTSE 100 companies criticised over use of tax havens
  • Date: 13 May 2013
  • Calum Fuller Hedge Funds Review MANY of the UK's largest companies are persisting in running subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions, according to research produced by the charity ActionAid. In all, more than 8,000 subsidiaries or joint ventures are being run through tax havens by FTSE 100 companies, while only two of the country's biggest listed companies were found not to run any such entities. The report comes hot on the heels of the weekend's G7 meeting in...     
  
• Price Bailey sells £150m regional IFA arm to Bellpenny
  • Date: 13 May 2013
  • Kevin Reed Hedge Funds Review THE regional financial services business of Price Bailey has been sold to Bellpenny. The deal sees 1,700 of Price Bailey's active £150m-worth of clients and funds under management move to the national wealth manager and IFA acquirer. Price Bailey will continue to provide business services to the clients, and also look to grow its high-net worth private client offering. "Our plan is to invest further in this sector, particularly in our...     
  
• Lehman administrators in Supreme Court over pension payments
  • Date: 14 May 2013
  • Rachael Singh Hedge Funds Review PWC ADMINISTRATORS for Lehman Brothers are in the Supreme Court today to decide the future on how the collapsed bank's defined benefit pension scheme liabilities should be paid. In a case which will dramatically change the insolvency landscape, PwC administrators are in court arguing that pension payments should no longer enjoy the luxury of receiving priority treatment over other creditors in the event of a collapse. Currently, defined benefit pension payments...     
  
• ICAEW posts loss as disciplinary funding bites
  • Date: 14 May 2013
  • Kevin Reed Hedge Funds Review A £3m SWING in funding the profession's disciplinary watchdog has seen the ICAEW post a loss. The institute faced a net charge of £1.8m in its contribution to the Accounting and Actuarial Discipline Board, an arm of the Financial Reporting Council, during 2012, compared to a £1.2m net credit a year earlier. The consolidated deficit for the year ending 31 December 2012 was £0.9m, compared to a £4m (restated) surplus in...