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F1: Friday Practice for Bahrain GP shows consistent spread from top to bottom

Bahrain. 09:00. Mechanics have been working all night - partly to get things ready, partly because some only arrived yesterday and partly because it's cooler at night. The first engines fire up and out onto track come the first two cars. Jarno Trulli is followed by Heikki Kovalainen: it's the first time a Lotus has been at a Formula One race meeting since the end of the 1994 season; it's six months to the day since the FIA granted the team entry. And it's all been achieved from scratch with no takeover of an existing team and no backing of an established GP2 or similar team... and that's not all.

Taxation: Last day to file on-line UK / Offshore Account disclosure and pay any tax due

The deadline for UK residents (excluding the famed non-dom class) to declare offshore accounts and pay any tax due is today. If they do it online. If they want to use paper, it's already too late...

Business Strategies: what do you do with an incalculable surplus of cash?

There are estimates of just how much surplus China has in US dollars. There is little doubt that it's enough to cause lasting and long-term harm to the US currency if China dumped it. So when it'...

Travel Warnings: more countries warn of risks in Bangkok

Last month, the Thai authorities warned travellers to Bangkok to be cautious due to the threat of disturbances from supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin. Now some 30 countries are warning...

Business crime: UK Insolvency service closes businesses for misleading sales practices

Three companies based in Bolton in the north of England which used misleading sales practices to solicit sponsorship from businesses have been wound up in the High Court following an investigatio...

Legal Professional : "estate planning advisers" were running a ponzi scheme

The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency court order to shut down a Ponzi scheme targeting retirees in California and Illinois by inviting them to estate planning seminars...

The Legal Professional: US bankruptcies rise in 2009

The USA lumps all kinds of insolvency proceedings under the single heading of "bankruptcy" and so its headline figures are misleading. But behind the headline figure - that there was a...