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Mavis Quill turns the Grand Burnstin Hotel fire evacuation into a triumph of emergency accommodation, reassuring residents with rooms nobody has inspected yet.
Penny Ledger examines the online pet retailer whose accounts were dormant, whose addresses travelled internationally and whose customers waited for parcels and refunds.
Engineering firm supplier delay solved by buying the lot, up to and including a suspiciously large chunk of Birmingham.
New visual assessment procedure lets trained officers determine complex ethnic identity by staring professionally for up to eight seconds.
New EU wide scheme will allow asylum seekers to be returned, exchanged, rerouted and occasionally discovered in Belgium.
A budget MOT centre turns every passing car into tomorrow’s tyre repair.
Staff say the ageing beige tower remains "central to Industry 4.0" because nobody understands what will happen if it dies.
Felicity Bunce is delighted that the vet bill now comes with enough warning to ruin the week in advance.
Colonel Piers Trackwell of the Office of Ordinary Orbital Necessities has found the perfect route from AmaSoon delivery anxiety to orbital warfare: call the parcel a national security asset and…
Penny Payless meets Graham Grossman, then discovers Britain’s liberated taxpayer exists only as a beautifully itemised national average.
Prudence Vale, registrar at the Office of Financial Optimism, watches student finance arrive with perfect timing and absolutely no promise of financial peace.
Felicity Bunce finds the Bank of England’s Leeds expansion wonderfully efficient: local representation now comes with a larger lease and a distinctly London sense of importance.
