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UNDERFIRE PROPERTY EXPERTS LAMBETH SMITH HAMPTON: SHADOW LOOMS OVER LUCRATIVE PUBLIC-SECTOR CONTRACTS

£90m Lord Street Case collides with growing LSH business with government and local authorities The surveyors have just secured a fresh £500,000 Birmingham City Council contract The defendant provides independent professional assessments to the West Midlands’ authority. But controversially, LSH was involved supplying similar services to the Isle of Man government. However, the deal turned sour, when a developer accused them of not being ‘independent’ Since then, the Skipton-ow

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Mark Hollingsworth is an investigative journalist, historian, documentary filmmaker and author of 11 books, notably ‘Londongrad – From Russia with Cash, the inside story of the Oligarchs’ and ‘Agents of Influence – How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies’.

His other books include investigations into the Saudi Royal Family, MPs’ business interests, MI5 and biographies of Mark Thatcher and Tim Bell.

As a freelance reporter, Hollingsworth contributes regularly to ‘The Spectator’, ‘The Telegraph’, ‘The Times’, ‘The Independent’ and the ‘Mail on Sunday’. He has also written for ‘The Guardian’, ‘Sunday Times, ‘Private Eye’, ‘London Evening Standard Magazine’, ‘The Observer’, ‘New Statesman’ and ‘Tatler’.

Hollingsworth started his career in 1984 and worked for Granada TV’s award-winning current affairs programme ‘World In Action’ for four years and has since made several documentaries for Channel 4.

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HILLSBOROUGH CAMPAIGN SLAMS ISLE OF MAN GOVERNMENT OVER FAILURE TO BACK TRUTH LAW

UNDERFIRE PROPERTY EXPERTS LAMBETH SMITH HAMPTON: SHADOW LOOMS OVER LUCRATIVE PUBLIC-SECTOR CONTRACTS

£90 MILLION LORD STREET CASE AND THE TROUBLED LEGAL RECORD OF THE CONSULTANTS ACCUSED OF UNLAWFUL INTERFERENCE

ANDY BURNHAM-STYLE HILLSBOROUGH LAW WILL BE TOO LATE FOR £90 MILLION LORD STREET CASE

Skipton faces Northern Rock-style confidence warning as £90m Isle of Man case risks triggering debt shock

HOW A LAWSUIT COULD BANKRUPT THE ISLE OF MAN

THE STRANGE TALE OF FAKE RUSSIAN SPIES

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