The Sunday Times carries a report about a Hargreaves Lansdown investment expert who held shares in Sirius Minerals urging savers to stick with the mining business just months before it was plunged into a financial crisis that saw 75% wiped off its share price.

They also reveal how phone shops are fuelling a bank fraud crimewave by selling multiple Sim cards without conducting any identity checks.

They suggest university halls of residence are “a law unto themselves”, and that a loophole in the laws covering renting can mean that deposits are not placed in an approved protection scheme, and that charges for alleged damage are impossible to dispute.

 
 

There is also a story about the Gurkha who set up Gnergy to create a business for his fellow veterans, and now feels abandoned by the government and the regulator Ofgem in his struggle to keep the company alive.

The Sunday Telegraph identifies the 13 London boroughs where it is more expensive to become a landlord, and later goes on to show how dangerous cladding can leave homeowners with worthless properties.

They tell the tale of a reader who withdrew her £120,000 holding in St. James’s Place because of “the obscure fees and boys’ club culture”.

 
 

Another reader reveals how “If the pound falls, my ISA goes up by £20k a day”.

The Mail on Sunday tells how Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of the CBI has gone to war with Boris over a no-deal Brexit: “Business leader triggers outrage by claiming firms will be ‘mired in a swamp’.

It also carries an interview with Peter Frankhauser, the Thomas Cook boss who is “devastated and deeply sorry” about recent events – “But what would I have done differently? Absolutely nothing…”

 
 

It tells how British savers are queuing up for Airbnb’s multi-billion dollar float, despite red flags over a possible tech bubble.

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