Fake £1 coins
Counterfeit £1 coins circulating in Britain right now are worth tens of millions of pounds. You need to learn how to spot a fake.
A fake £1 coin in your wallet is not only absolutely worthless but of course, it’s also illegal to pass it on to anyone else. Nevertheless, you might do so quite innocently as new figures estimate that as many as one in 36 coins in circulation is counterfeit.
How bad is the problem?
The latest data, published in a parliamentary answer from Justine Greening, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, indicates that the value of counterfeit £1 coins circulating today could run as high as £41 million.
This has been a long-standing problem. In 2003/04, when figures were first collated, 85,000 dud £1 coins were returned to the Royal Mint. Five years later the figure had jumped up to a massive one million fakes. And the trend continues to climb ever upwards, reaching a record high of almost two million coins which had to be disposed of by the Royal Mint in the last financial year.
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Display Random Links
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Elite Detailing – Car Washing but very expensive
A former accountancy student and car enthusiast has turned his hand to luxury car washes for the super rich. Gurcharn Sahota charges luxury and supercar owners up to £7,200 per valet, which easily makes him Britain's priciest car wash.
Sahota works from his parents' garage, which he has lined with special tiles that help to reflect small dirt particles on the cars.
Notable tools of the trade include wax that costs £8,200 per tub and a £5,000 police microscope that can detect miniscule scratches.
It takes Sahota 250 hours to clean each car, so the vehicles are often with him for up to a month. His top service involves polishing each part of the car five times.
His company, called Elite Detailing, was launched five years ago and he has since cleaned all manner of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and McLarens - to name but a few.
Profits miss expectations – Google
Internet giant Google has reported a sharp rise in profits and revenue in quarterly results that nonetheless failed to impress Wall Street.
Net profit for the three months to the end of June came in at $1.84bn (£1.2bn), up by a quarter on the $1.48bn it recorded a year earlier.
Revenue was $6.82bn, also up sharply on the $5.52bn posted a year ago.
However, analysts had expected better and chose to focus instead on operating expenses, which increased sharply.
As a result, shares in Google fell more than 4% in after-hours trading.
'Strong growth'
"They're throwing more money into research and development than people were expecting and a little bit less into sales and marketing," said Colin Gillis at BGC Partners.
"Google has been pretty clear that it's going back into investment mode. They added 1,200 people in the quarter, which means more expenses are going to kick in in September."
We are back
After a very prolonged break from posting I am finally returning to LM-BLOG.
I have been very busy and I decided to remove everything nonessential from my daily schedule, I am now placing the blogging back into my schedule as I am once again leading into much attempted growth of the blog along with rebranding of some of my other sites and some client work.
More soon !!