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In the online version of Private Eye:
- The £6bn Vodafone bill… How Britain caved in over phone giant’s tax avoidance
- Pensions row... Strikes loom as we reveal BBC’s 15-year contributions ‘holiday’
- Chick lit chump... It’s Louise Bagshawe, Tory New Girl (and Lord Archole fan!)

In the latest edition of the magazine:
- That’s Rich! The CDC scandal:
Seven-page special report by the Eye’s Richard Brooks on how Britain’s poverty relief fund abandoned the world’s poor – while lining its bosses’ own pockets.

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BRITAIN’S £6BN VODAFONE BILL

WHEN Vodafone bought German engineering company Mannesmann a decade ago for €180bn, it desperately wanted to use the mother of all tax avoidance schemes so taxpayers would subsidise what turned out to be a massively over-priced mistake. The plan was to route the acquisition through an offshore company.

THE BBC PENSIONS BLACK HOLE

AN autumn and early winter of discontent are looming at the BBC, thanks to the apparent mismanagement of its pension fund. Worryingly for staff, it transpires that the corporation took a 15-year employer contributions "holiday", saving it around £1bn between 1988 and 2003!

THE TORIES’ CHICK-LIT CHUMP

ACCORDING to someone who has known Louise Bagshawe since university, the 39-year-old Tory MP for Corby is “one third maverick, two thirds bluestocking, three thirds ambitious”. Her background seems conventional – country-house upbringing, private education, Oxford. Yet she is an outspoken feminist and a divorced (though still Catholic) mother of three.

Months after Labour left office that Ed Balls claimed his party was responsible for better than expected growth figures

Years after they left office that Ed Balls was claiming under-investment by Conservatives was responsible for poor state of schools

Disgraced multi-millionaire flies back to Britain to clear name (and sign copies of his book)… Eleventh Neasden player successfully applies for injunction… Contact made with group of Lib Dems buried beneath Conservatives for months… Exam candidates warned of increasing competition for places on front page of Telegraph… First unborn baby to get A* GCSE… David and Ed Miliband’s diary, as told to Craig Brown

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Issue No: 1270
Date: 3rd September 2010
Price: £1.50

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