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October 2, 2016
Stephen Fox, a 49-year-old Hertfordshire insurance broker, had something very wrong with his moral compass. That defective compass, and the misdirected actions to which it led him, have just landed Fox with a four-year prison sentence – and publicly exposed him as the very rottenest of rotten eggs. But did Our Maker make Fox evil, did he always have a rotten heart – or did something turn him along the way? Bankstone News investigates.
Fox was the trusted lieutenant of Stephen Stoddart, the founder, back in 1973, of Tring-based broker S J Stoddart. After joining the business in 1988, Fox worked his way up through the firm, becoming a director and the heir presumptive to Mr Stoddart who treated Fox like one of the family.
But after Stoddart was diagnosed with what would turn out to be a fatal cancer in January 2014, and handed day-to-day running of the firm over to Fox, the latter took the opportunity to divert their customers’ premium payments into his own account to the tune of £273,000 over a ten-month period.
Why would someone so grossly abuse the trust placed in him by his dying patron, friend, and mentor? What was he doing with all that money? The latter question is easily answered: he was sitting up all hours in his underpants in front of his home computer, swilling hard liquor and clicking his way through his own and other people’s money on grubby little online gambling sites.
Was that what ultimately robbed Mr Fox of his moral bearings? Would something else, sooner or later, have blown him off course if online gambling hadn’t got there first? Maybe. Maybe not.
Alcohol may be a pernicious temptation for creatures with a predisposition to addiction (human beings, for example); but unless you’re specifically addicted to the very finest wines available to humanity, it generally won’t shunt you too far down the road to a life of larceny. Fox’s known fondness for a tipple or two (or possibly twenty two) cannot alone account for the frantic spree of pillage on which he embarked.
That would take something with a heftier price tag than supermarket value vodka. Something like recreational drugs, for example. But Fox was no druggy. Then, how about Bet 365, a 24/7 virtual world where vast sums of money buy you nothing more than some dancing pixels and the vain hoping of one day winning back some of the thousands you’ve p*ssed away. Yes, that would do it – and did it, indeed, it seems, for Mr Fox.
However nannyish they’ve lately become about fags, HMG, thank goodness, is not about to outlaw gambling ads on telly. Just as well, because – without them, CMCs and the pay-day lenders – there’d be nothing to break up the monotony of day-time TV.
Just because something ruins the lives of those it gets its claws into and those (those like Mr Stoddart, his unfortunate widow and all S J Stoddart’s uninsured customers) who get in their way, there’s no reason to go around creating impediments to its vigorous promotion to persons of all ages and persuasions through all available media.
Hopefully, this same enlightened attitude will soon be extended to other pastimes, which, provided you partake in them responsibly, are really just a bit of harmless fun.
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Me and my mates, we love a bit of recreational drug use. We’re a regular bunch of likeable lads, every one of us a bit of character. There’s this guy: THE STONER. He likes his drugs the way The Lord made them. Weed would be his middle name – if it wasn’t already Brendan. And here’s Dave. We call him THE HORSE, because a hefty dose of Ketamine’s the only thing that keeps this guy tranquil! Then there’s EASY ED. It takes a lot to bring him down. It’s MDMA all the way for EASY ED. What a guy! And what about this bloke. It’s SAMMY SMACK’ED. He’ll do anything to get his next fix. And we do mean anything. Ha ha! And then there’s WHITE LINES WILLY. A rolled-up fiver and a baggy of finest Colombian baking soda and there’s no shutting this fool up! Together, we are the smokers, the snorters, the mainline marauders. Chasing after dragons, robbing people’s houses, dreaming the impossible dream. We are the dope fiends. And this, my friends, this is THE DRUG LIFE!
The only good claim is one who’s denied
September 22, 2015
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Taking the sex out of motor insurance
June 14, 2012
Say what you like about Tiger.co.uk (you’d hardly expect Bankstone News to care) but their dedicated statistics arm Tiger Watch certainly comes up with some outrageously eye-catching findings.
The latest Tiger Watch revelation taking the world of insurance media by storm is the amazing news that average motor insurance premiums dropped by 6.2% over the past year.
Yes, really – and not only that but also: premiums demanded of female drivers are fast falling back towards sex-parity with those extorted from male drivers. Where once – back in the heady days of March 2012 – male drivers’ premiums towered an impressive 12.4% above the ladies’ prices, by May that differential had slumped back to just 9.8%, and today amounts to a mere 6.1%.
Where will it end? Can it really be true? Is she really going out with him? So many questions!
The root cause, of course, is the forthcoming implementation of the EU Gander Directive at the end of the year. Sex may have gone out of the window, but thankfully however H. M. Gout. this week confirmed that insurers can carry on discriminating on the basis of age. Home secretary and former glamour model Teresa May this week told the Daily Telegrape that insurers are free to operate outside the age discrimination laws, whilst a colleague dismissed claims of unfair treatment meted out to wrinklies as “anecdotal in nature”.
As one poster on the Insurance Times website this week noted, however, “To quote the Collins English Dictionary an ‘Anecdote’ is a short amusing account of an incident. Whether the respective bodies view their members’ situations in the same light is doubtful.” The same poster when on to predict that “this issue” will “take the European Human Rights Avenue.”
If that’s the one Bankstone News is thinking of, there’s a charming little place about half-way down that does a perfectly charming North Sea lobster salad with black truffles and potatoes.

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- Sheila’s pink zones unveiled
- Are you a liar?
- Hit 'n' run hooligans
- Silicon Dale turf war fears
- Last call for entries
- Heard the one about the Slovenian who fell off a ladder?
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- Volunteers wanted
- Fresh food for thought from the yellow think tank
- What!?
- ►July(12)
- Come on you bludgers!
- Wheatley speaks out on those awkward post-shooting questions
- Broken Apprentice
- Not fair!
- Mystery of the 'clean me' car
- Motor insurance premiums: an important update
- Semi-spooky goings on down Bradford way
- Britain's Got Brokahs
- Happy Birthday, Pops!
- The Code of Brother Brokers
- Lemmings
- RSA: the truth comes out at last
- ►June(16)
- Does this map look familiar?
- A rare glimpse within the arcane world of worshipfulness
- Drug crazed drivers run amuck
- Fresh calls for a clampdown on people learning to drive
- Pickles warns off high street parking Nazis
- The gradually reducing mystery of Bradford's sky high motor insurance premiums
- The strange affair of Brighouse Basin
- Fraudsters target White Van Man
- Lytx get serious
- Wanted: new superlatives
- Simply too successful
- Where's the fun in that?
- Karting for charity
- Robocars: a legal perspective
- A glimpse behind the legendary curtains
- Books, covers, and the judging of the former based upon the latter
- ►May(19)
- Retreat yourself this summer!
- Stick that in your pipes, Lady Sexists!
- Harvest of fraud
- Married to the MOB
- Telematics: the noose tightens
- The war on fun continues
- Pull up to my bumper, Baby (Don't do it!)
- BIBA conference business card uniformity puzzle solved
- Pragmatical practical pathway
- Get out of the car!
- Company vehicle abuse: enough is enough?
- Quiz
- BIBA Fever brewing
- Whiplash panels to be watered down?
- See through claims initiative
- 2014 monkey bike charity ride latest
- Uvavu appoints Lovely Claims Director
- Fist Assist name bites the dust
- Telematics for dummies
- ►April(12)
- ►March(20)
- Nothing crude about this caricature!
- Jumbo sized job for CC probe
- One peak too many?
- Like self-herding lambs to the slaughter
- Eric shuns shameful exposure
- One from the heart
- Hand-biting budget cuts deep
- Will the lying never end?
- Word count madness
- FCA in a tizz over strap-ons
- Concern over rising tide of foreign cars
- Huntley senses regulatory irregularities
- Reader's letter
- Spud-u-liken
- Robots pose a safety menace
- Minor damage goes unremedied in can't-be-bothered Britain
- Caption competition winner announced
- RSA rescue plan revealed in full
- Another fraud ring brought to book
- A humble suggestion
- ►February(14)
- Caption competition
- Let's stance, says Golden Graeme
- Crucial year ahead for industry tipping points, ABI claims
- Another economic mainstay under threat
- Bike pants firm scoops national award
- Winter weather wipes out Britain's vehicle repair capabilities
- All aboard the licence lookup love boat!
- Skyfire meets the Magnificent Seven in anti-profit pledge
- Fresh findings from the fraud front line
- Different strokes clinch Teutonic triumph for Bristol boys
- Insurers v Lawyers: the conflict escalates
- The amazing world of telematics
- Thorneycrofts treat Bankstone to a "night of a thousand balls"
- Good news all round on motor insurance premiums
- ►January(18)
- I see roads, icy roads
- That parrot story again
- Your chance to be part of movie history
- Insurance clone posse
- Dobbers rise up against fraudsters
- ABI to end confusion
- Pierre de Banque Folie de Vélo Singe
- Urgent: whiplash experts wanted
- BIBA prepares to stand and deliver
- Cam prang of the week
- Yorkshiremen do it hands free
- IAMs puts our whole approach to enforcement into question
- East Coast Easy Riders
- A breath of fresh air as Highwaymen axe more dumb motorways
- Monkey movie coming soon!
- Fancy becoming a PIB?
- Young Scots priced off the road
- Preposterous tales
- ►December(15)
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- ►December(12)
- Christmas message
- Wave farewell to wipers
- Seeing off the interlopers
- RSA, RSA, RSA, what do you call an Irish insurance operation whose reserves need patching up?
- If this doesn't make you feel festive
- Whiplash? So last year, Darling!
- Another week, another meaningless survey
- Adrian Flux cloud pilot
- ARAG overdo the whole award-winning thing
- The right kind of publicity
- The impossibility of an accident
- Bradford's C4C shame
- ►November(14)
- Taking a break
- Motor insurers' secret agenda revealed
- PP, PPI, aye, yay!
- Credit hire: a fresh frontier for fraud?
- No dead bikes here!
- Doin' it for the kids
- Unspecified issues
- Dye denies madness
- Sat-Nav savagery Pt II
- Demented reality
- Cops net record haul of C4Cers
- Easing the burden in Burton
- Strange tales from multiplex land
- Dial M for Mileage
- ►October(18)
- Advertisement feature
- Meistergeistvermittlungsgeschichte
- TGSL's night to remember
- Ageas try something different
- Not so spectral after all
- Forty years of flouting
- The mystery of the disappearing yachting jacket
- Confuse.com ad dogged by controversy
- Fraud fighting fantasies
- Buy! Buy! Buy!
- Fraud Awards: important correction
- Young drivers? No thanks!
- Brit road safety above average, but watch out for perk practice!
- What price access to justice? If you have to ask, you can't afford it
- Those survey results in full
- Mr Compliance
- Hordes not bored at Fraud Awards
- Insult added to injury as brokers denied fair slice of solicitors' PI
- ►September(16)
- Your chance to shape the future of News
- No fuel for premium dodgers
- Looking for Mr White
- First for customer complaints
- An entirely non-fictitious and original story
- Men, women, and how to spot the difference
- Call me Deakin Shoes
- Breathe in!
- Turns of Endurance
- Crushing news
- Don't put your faith in phantoms
- Fast finally finishes reading all those 2012 reports
- Major new appointment for Bankstone
- How much?!
- Where is the love?
- Points mean prizes
- ►August(16)
- How and where to network this season
- Jealousy at play
- The dash for dashcam
- Cracking down on premium dodgers
- Crash course in Advanced Kartography
- Don't imagine you can't be replaced!
- Unprincipled Britain
- Some people don't have valid MOTs
- A strongly worded appeal
- So that's how it works!
- Son of Whiplash
- International corner (angolo internazionale, coin internationale, &c.)
- Waste-of-time talking shop reports
- Motor insurance, no thanks!
- The call of the kart!
- Girls' best friends lets them down
- ►July(15)
- Ambulance chasers rapped for disrespectful ads
- Stuck in the slow lane of global economies
- Men (at arms) and (tiny little) motors
- That old 'restructuring' excuse again
- The truth about Milton Keynes
- Insurance Endurance 2012
- Insurance Endurance 2011
- Insurance Endurance 2010
- Young drivers - no thanks!
- Motor writers get ahead (of themselves)
- There's a reason why they call those boxes black
- Around Yorkshire on a monkeybike
- CC’d report sheds light on motor insurance repairs
- Catch 17-24
- Sun is shining, weather is sweet
- ►June(16)
- It's the final countdown
- Offshorer gets a good kicking
- Attack of the ghostly rings
- Collective insanity
- Monkeys all set for takeoff
- Let me be absolutely clear
- Motor insurers in open revolt
- Astonishing tales of fraudulence
- Myths and *legends of motor insurance
- Somewhere near Leeds, I think
- The Scunthorpe Solution
- Delight for Leeds law firm
- Yes, more Medieval Monkeys news!
- BIBA salutes uninsured crack down
- Why buy more insurance? Part 23
- Drivers have the road will
- ►May(16)
- Medieval Monkey Mystery Tour
- Complainy corner
- Who's confused now?
- A conspiracy theorist writes
- Photo competition
- SFA?
- Scots' crazy independence dreams unravel
- Unhappy with your claim award?
- Arag snaffles Bankstone Conference Catering award 2013
- Feeling the fever
- AXA acts out its foot size
- Back from the dead
- Wonder why they chose this place...
- Deliverance at hand for box-starved brokers
- So much for sex equality
- Claims: time for insurers to stop faffing about
- ►April(16)
- Insurance Endurance is (almost) go!
- A policy in every parlour
- Going down
- Gillan's fresh faced cheek
- Get your motor running - careful on the highway!
- The perils of speaking in public
- BIBA's old folks signpost landmark
- The shockingly dull truth about protected NCDs
- Arrivederci Scarborough
- Fun while it lasted
- Insurance fraud rampant
- Web enabled motorism coming soon
- Branding opportunity of the century
- Osborne reveals new regulatory order
- Indignant old bloke fails to recall RTA incident
- Broker Apprentice unveiled
- ►March(14)
- Butch bows out
- The courage to sit down with members
- Lawyers attempt to meddle in politics again
- Old Bill's NI PI surprise
- Medieval Monkeys coming soon!
- BIBA picks the White man for the job!
- FSA okays brokers' usury kickbacks
- FSA probes insurers' use of private detectives
- Admiral in roo health, says Angelheart
- FEDs put the brakes on Fraudster's cunning plan
- BIBA, BIBA, BIBA, ooh yeah
- One man’s feeding frenzy is another man’s frantic hump
- The future of corporate karting
- A promise is a promise
- ►February(15)
- Insurance broking needs you!
- Gallbreath warns Osborne off IPT hike
- Well, you know what they say about no news
- The true cost of comparing
- Black, black, black!
- Oh, those Russians!
- Death to Middlemen : Uvavu's Road to Revolution
- Mystery man holds key to romantic supper
- The insurance show you must not miss!
- Potwatch
- A horse, a hearse, or anything to get me out of Leicester!
- Grayling faces down critics
- Churchill escapes serving lengthy sentence
- Sabre rattles ATE mongers
- Insurance portrait competition
- ►January(19)
- Compensation creep
- Insurers losing patience over civil justice regime change
- Here we go again
- BLD's news blizzard
- Bankstone's musical message from Group Armagh
- ABI rejects BIBA's claims
- The truth about motor insurance costs
- Welcome to the wonderful world of sound!
- Stripping the Glam from Glamorganshire
- I was a teenage ghost broker
- Women are from vehicles. Men are from cars.
- Warning: shameless plug!
- C4 doc sparks alarm and denials
- All hell kicks off in March 2013
- It pays not to advertise
- New Year message
- RSA cuts and runs in Croydon
- The creative artistry of M R Singh
- Grayling's descent
- ►December(12)
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- ►November(19)
- Dampness in the used car market
- Bankstone News takes an exclusive tour of the Lloyd’s building
- More useless people discovered at NIG
- High time insurers faced the proxy music
- Interested in humans? Read this!
- The pros and cons of speed awareness
- C4C probably not worth the bother
- Speed cops revolt on camera quotas
- Another glittering night
- Goodnight, Ladies
- Fuel price unfairness: it could be you
- BIBA scotches talk of independence
- A motorcycle, some complaints and a competition winner
- A fantastic story takes shape
- Eminem
- Blind assassins
- Readers' letters and... a competition!
- Who you calling a tree?
- The pursuit of slap happiness
- ►October(17)
- UKIM swoops for ARAG man
- Fresh support for Chartered status
- I'm gonna take you out tonight
- Fowl play suspected
- White lines (don't do it without insurance)
- Forthcoming social engagements
- So, farewell then EG
- Brighouse welcomes Hiscox
- Breath test update
- Something to do with football
- Feeling the squeeze
- More or less equal than others
- Nuclear fission
- Let me be absolutely clear
- Bankstone salutes a world beater
- Box man's curfew cavils
- Unwary vehicle lenders fall foul of simple-mindedly literalistic assumptions as to what comprehensive insurance covers
- ►September(17)
- Fantasy football reader offer corner
- Can we have our ball back, Mister
- Motor market update
- Brokers in complaints commotion
- A story about bowls
- Track day triumph for Jones
- Un justicier est dans la ville
- Greedy police face legal challenge
- Competition winners announced
- Milton Keynes goes kompletely karting krazy!
- Back off you bankers, says Gallbreath
- Long delays expected
- Britain welcomes boozed up drivers
- Live from Milton Keynes
- Au revoir, Anton?
- Transport purge
- NIG: pointless people won't be missed
- ►August(12)
- Cats away!
- Motor market meltdown?
- Rosbif stay home tomorrow
- Something amiss in the motor market?
- Karts, choppers, scooters and Butch
- Angel Heart (not an Admiral story)
- That's a lot of cars
- Grebe weighs in to crank up Uvavu fraud crack down
- Boarding now for Daytona Milton Keynes
- Bashing the broker
- Definitive proof at last: crime doesn't pay
- Motor market in turmoil
- ►July(17)
- Welcome break
- What's in a name? Ask the Allianz Saracens!
- Fair play, please, for today's insurance firms
- BLD lands in the midst of the Midlands
- Docs make claims cheats pay
- One last push
- The latest DfT idea on road safety
- Front gardens in peril
- MM2012: a heck of a trip!
- Weather warning
- Idiots abroad
- Rates approach fearful symmetry
- The triumph of monkeybikeism
- Urgent call for volunteer navigator
- The triumph of nihilism
- No more lies
- Uvavu will retain a viable strategic capability following cuts
- ►June(22)
- Goodness gracious!
- The karting event of the century
- Tea with the Sheriff and a fond farewell to Sir Bernard
- Could short term thinking lead to long term savings?
- A short history of Bankstone Racing
- This summer's must-attend motorsport highlight
- Why Insurance Endurance at Daytona Milton Keynes?
- Who am Bankstone News?
- Give now - save lives!
- TTFN for Brightside's Banksy
- OBE one CNOBE
- Footprints in the butter
- Yet more press-hot monkey news
- In case of emergency break Swiftcover
- Taking the sex out of motor insurance
- A vast array of choice for confused bikers
- Coup for Giles as Pearce leaves Brightside behind
- Monkey notes
- Tough on financial services. Tough on the causes of financial services.
- Reader’s letters
- Golf, monkeys and private parts: what a week!
- Kwik-Fit consults with Great Barr staff
- ►May(22)
- PR coup of the week (plus a preview of next week's)
- Resentment at neck smears boils over on Merseyside
- Uvavu warns of Jubilee mayhem
- Corporate hospitality highlight of the year
- The law declares war on bikers
- Insurance fraud comes to West Yorkshire
- Gallbreath sets sights on satisfaction surge
- Gallbreath sets his sights on satisfaction surge
- Hay fever sweeps the land
- Exciting news on monkeybike route
- Stride's red hot poker prize draws BIBA crowds
- We don't care about the young folks
- BIBA fever
- Psycho Somatic Addict Ins Age!
- Claims gongs gone wild
- Lee to pass among the people
- Who knew?!
- The knights who say Nidd
- Taste the difference
- Oh, the pain!
- Uvavu’s bedtime reading sensation
- A little less conversation
- ►April(15)
- Latest news from Camp Bankstone
- Sex-work balance
- Rumour mill churns to no avail
- Two Gentlemen of Malodour
- Whiplash away, whiplash away
- Time to show why commuting on two wheels in the way to go
- Shocking leap in motor insurance premiums
- Italo-Cambro-Gallic deal delivers comparative clarity
- Evil insurance firms still seeking to profit from their customers
- Telematics: the net draws in
- Not so sky-high now, huh?
- Because I was sky-high
- Front row
- End of the road for MIB?
- R3D2
- ►March(25)
- Spring break
- Live fast, young die
- When peacocks attack
- It's not a crime
- Insurance press word games exposed
- Bung us a monkey, get a Gorilla
- The fall of the house of Hector
- Say no to unsuitable footwear
- Pleasure and pain for Group Armagh boss Boisseau
- Time to decriminalise speed fiends
- A big cat in Bristol
- Admiral kicks claims into touch
- Reader queries
- Scraping by in the age of the super-sized car
- You’ve got to say yes to another excess
- Clearing Britain’s roads pt5
- No car, no job
- Box time, Ladies, please!
- Parrish the thought
- A bowl by any other name
- Gift horse giveaway (and other news)
- Bikers hit by new Euro legislation
- P is silent
- Dude I'm driving my new car right now LOL
- Less fuss on the bus
- ►February(20)
- Video exclusive: going ape suit crazy
- BIBA's summit shame
- Call the doctor - I think I'm gonna crash
- Attention, je vais dire cela une seule fois
- SSP has its hub in the cloud
- How to win the World Cup
- Kulturkampf
- Merseysiders incensed at Government inaction on ageism
- Rationale for bendy strip identity
- End of an era
- Milking the merry-go-round
- Test volunteers sought
- What happens on tour...
- New evidence of drug driving hazards
- Damn fine (double-breasted) regulation
- Marty Butch tests an Audi A5 Cabriolet 3.0 tdi
- Insurance world goes sex mad
- Sorry, I didn't quite catch that
- Group Armagh: the facts
- Last week's left overs
- ►January(20)
- Putting a Panda through its paces
- What, even policemen? (Part 1)
- Conceptual progress for BLD
- It's like the end of the road all over again
- Do me a favour!
- Loyal supporters
- Statistical support
- Miserable lot
- Mr M's life-changing lie
- A spot of tidying up
- Coming soon...
- Waging the War against Whiplash
- Winter winds whip up fresh terrors
- Sex and danger
- Stroh und Spatz : the rematch
- New uses for used words
- Keep the car, we'll take the briefcase
- Through a scanner quickly
- What's up with bike sales?
- Olympics put the wind up AXA
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- ►December(15)
- Mutual mass termination
- Uvavu's sponsisment shame
- We'll miss you too!
- Lifting the bonnet on the view from the crow's nest
- Learner drivers to benefit from 80mph speed limit increase
- Whither the motor market?
- Tysoe tanks up on festive cheer
- Scots palms sweat over winter storms
- Lineker wedded to ingenue brand
- Group Armagh still going strong
- Bugatti takes a Pelican Bath
- Lineker: a genius in the box
- Bluefin for sale
- Bluefin for sale
- Slam and blast
- ►November(22)
- It's all about you!
- Making time means making money
- Reader offer
- Some common sense at last
- A bird in the mind
- Dawn of the comparison apps
- Markerstudy's vintage pawn haul
- Oh dear, how very embarrassing
- At least we're not eating them yet
- Bankstone welcomes Mike Hall
- Hospitality highlight of the week
- Cruel to be kind
- Wade wades into bungs debate
- Creeping evil and a platform for profit
- I wonder if you could refer me to a good lawyer
- Come on without
- An exciting opportunity, if you are an accountant
- Not the buttons!
- Not for publication
- Rival associations consolidate dwindling broker member stocks
- The day I have no secrets you can take me out and shoot me
- Politicians disagree
- ►October(20)
- Rising star of MotoGP snuffed out
- Where'd all the gas stations go?
- An absurd conflation
- Mote and beam reform proposal
- Heads will roil
- Dobbers v justice perverters
- Bo-Jo–Ho-Ho's car crush crackdown
- A magnificent celebration
- Paying the price for 47 flavours of fun
- The mirth of Kahn
- Invite us to a better party if you can!
- Referral fees? No, thanks!
- Boris slides into the record books
- This could all get very messy!
- A world without young drivers
- A5
- Making time means making money
- Cuts bite
- A giant struggle involving phalanxes and tidal waves
- Putting a lid on PI claims
- ►September(20)
- You've gotta go some to catch TB!
- Outrage over Uvavu's bike crash ads
- Slim pickings from referral fees
- C4C nab of the week
- Slaughter at ABI event
- HNW is motor brokers' Alamo
- Fresh straw for the stables of motor insurance
- Britain's roads host a limited experiment in anarchy
- Dismal outlook for justice fans
- Brain injury talk goes down well
- Choppering v chuntering
- Village cricket sponsors of the year
- IIB calls for regime change
- Painful probe ahoy!
- Karted off back to the future
- Solid gold plated
- Crash for cashers cornered
- The point swappers
- Fall preview
- Confusing insight into UKGov's new hole plans
- ►August(10)
- ►July(26)
- A site for sore eyes
- Make me!
- The unbearable mightness of being
- Cameron to clamp down on obscenity
- Computer says no
- Q2: where to?
- International news roundup
- Spot the ball
- Slow moving traffic
- Someone to claim us, someone to follow, someone to shame us, some brave Apollo, someone to fool us, someone like you
- Complaining corner
- The clinically clean conscience of the continental clique
- Yorkshire Air Ambulance: An appeal from the late Sir Arthur Pendragon of Upnorth
- Woman wastes weeks in Norwich basement
- How your premiums help fight crime
- Merger mania sweeps the industry
- King tells Generation X-box where it's going wrong
- Straw and all
- Oh Sandy!
- Medieval Monkeys: the terrible truth
- Admiral's water-walking act at risk?
- Ill winds and general pessimism
- Knight Riders of the Ridings
- It's a sign!
- Chain of fools
- Good news for rural taxi firms
- ►June(21)
- Lifesavers or nice little earners?
- Ordinary people losers, AJAG claims
- Claims data toothcombers
- Jones joins Teutonic Order and other medieval monkey news
- Genuinely stepping into public shoes
- The Age of Excess
- Medieval Monkeys: Location Low-down #5 Bolt-on Castle
- Unleaded
- Unlovely humps
- The DIY route to lower insurance premiums
- Holistic bike prang crackdown
- Direct Line: don't do it!
- Bikesure help pull off a Great Escape
- Aggregations have been made
- Early leaders in most medieval stakes
- Personal hygiene reminder
- Rubbish whiplash claim of the week
- Slow moving vehicles
- Teenage kicks kill kids
- Monkey Day just one month hence
- Do you want the good news?
- ►May(19)
- Golf warriors meet with contrasting fortunes
- The end of the road?
- Don't fill our streets with PI zombies
- Hail mother motor, hail piston rotor, hail wheel!
- Quiet day for news
- Medieval Monkeys: Location Low-down #4 Sheriff Hutton Castle
- Mr Whippy
- Bumper harvest
- BIBA conference identity crisis
- Race for RAC gets racy
- Utley now tycoon – official
- Ten castles. Two days. Wonder what that's all about...
- When two become one
- Motor insurers free to use victims as they please
- Helphire at the... Taco Bell!
- Medieval Monkeys: Location Low-down #3 Helmsley Castle
- Vandals v Huns
- Smear campaigner
- Crazy name news
- ►April(15)
- Fancy a point?
- Zurich warming up for second-half motor action
- GI leaders with the lid off
- More news from Advantage
- Single entity for RBSI
- Medieval Monkeys destination low-down #2: Scarborough Castle
- Who can you trust?
- Post strike
- Get over yourself, so-called Mr Insurance
- Another cunning plan goes awry
- Medieval Monkeys: Location Low-down #1 Pickering Castle
- A what, sorry?
- Axes to justice
- Cheaper car insurance - the answer's in your stars
- Insurance people in the news
- ►March(20)
- Days unconfused
- Bum deal for young drivers puts lives at risk
- Who are you calling a banker?
- Being builled
- Medieval Monkeys update
- Youngsters driven off the road
- Avast and belay there, Comparisoneers!
- Monkeys take stock(s)
- A global perspective
- Two gents a-milking
- Empire (stoat) building
- More monkeys
- Hollywood's take on reality
- Transparency: the wonder cure for C4C
- A corner turned for West Bromwich
- Monkey News
- Speeding to economic recovery
- Ferry cheap!
- Jacko v. Elephant Man
- Sex rears its ugly head again
- ►February(20)
- Moneysaving whores spell ruin for the motor market
- Saddle up yon noble monkey and let's ride!
- Flashers roam the UK's highways
- Underwriting under fire
- Cure found for insomnia
- Websters Outsource Claims to Bankstone
- Nasal payment update
- Darren Bent not a reasonable person
- Do you really think so, Holmes?
- Drinking, Officer? Certainly not - I'm just feeling a little bit anxious
- Urban blight
- No jokes. Long first sentence.
- The decline and fall of fragrancy
- Jill in a box
- Cold snap causes claims spike
- Get your motor running
- Official: RSiva called off
- Women in Insurance – Part III
- Thou shalt not claim
- Harnessing riders to enhancement
- ►January(20)
- Left is right
- Brunt bearing news
- A few too many for the road
- No justice for workplace injurees?
- Rock god linked with car insurance avatar
- Bankstoners Birmingham bound
- Culture fear
- Psyching out the claims cheats
- Popular Front
- Top Cop and the crash for cash conmen
- Quotation corner
- Flogging's too good for them
- BIBA’s pointy plan signposts the way ahead
- No news on Quinn sale
- Romford Broker Sold
- A very merry 2011 to all our readers
- Red telephones are so like 2010
- Let them walk home
- Standstill drivers dice with death
- Black Ice Baby
- ►December(15)
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- ►December(15)
- Is it that time of year already?
- Scots cop shop capers
- Fleeting pleasures
- Hyperborea?
- Britain’s next up model
- How much does it hurt? Couple of grand maybe?
- Scoop the barrel in our special seasonal competition
- Watergate, Contragate, Axagate, Towergate
- Meeting the upbeat cliché quota
- Some cars bump into things
- Monkey boys on film
- Claim-crazy docs top confusing top twenty
- Commonsenser's last stand
- Deoxyribonucleic acid – the great facilitator
- Of course I know what I'm doing!
- ►November(20)
- Plymouth man scoops super prize
- Mystery of the missing mileage
- Our roads kill more horses than humans
- HMG gets to grips with hi-cost car cover
- Rewriting the rules again
- The return of competition corner
- Total satisfaction, the motor insurance way
- All I desire
- Ghostly goings on in Hayes
- Road death losing popularity
- Blogstone
- Pay more, get less?
- Choice cuts
- Return to Cinders
- Lines save lives
- Easy does it
- Dark Age Britain
- The strange case of the missing motor claims
- How do you like that?
- Smile, you’re on spycam
- ►October(24)
- A decade and a day
- No chop for Co-op's GI arm
- White van man’s beeming schadenfreude
- Not for profit
- Motor claims symposium excites excitement
- Comedic interlude
- Chef's secretions unveil the secrets of Britain's best and worst roads
- Appointment news
- Roadwork deathtrap warning
- Come back clapped out motorcars
- Competition Corner
- Foiled again!
- Game changing claims proposal
- Motor rates rising less fast
- Driving all the old men crazy
- Nut-tightening offer you can't refuse
- Fortis re-designed out of existence
- This ain't rock n roll...
- KFF kustomers kouldn't be more delighted
- Top insurer's animal lust
- Pits of glory for Team Bankstone
- Referral fees: the show must go on!
- Talk is cheap
- Cough up you misers!
- ►September(20)
- Leave them kids alone
- Monkey Business blow by blow
- Look sharp you lot!
- Munters on offer?
- Get karter!
- No swift half measures on claims deniers
- People say we monkey around
- (Semi) Official Monkey Business final press release
- Up and at 'em JR!
- All roads lead to Birmingham
- Have points, will travel
- Something more comfortable
- U-Pull-It welcome motor monkeys
- Perfidy reigns unchecked
- Return of the Ilkley lads
- Exotic losses can't top UK motor fraud
- We're shutting you down
- Charity begins at home (almost)
- Eyesight overrated
- Cash cough call for helicopter heroes
- ►August(15)
- Lexus man's racial abuse claim
- Must be around here somewhere
- God gets in on the act
- Confusion avoidance
- Another new monkey saddles up
- Strange but true!
- Carry on claiming!
- Hurgghh!
- Have a care!
- Now you will pay!
- Cover up and cut the carnage
- Sir Cliff Richard: an apology
- Northern Assessors step up for Monkey Business
- Got any ketchup?
- Une voiture nommée Zoé
- ►July(25)
- Shooting stars
- Arag shines in circumferencial survey
- When Black Monday comes
- Saxon axeman tells it like it is
- Piss poor excuse for a poorer still joke
- Monkey Man at Mini Masters
- Euan’s Aon evidence takes 40 winks with the fishes
- EMB confusion
- Motor insurance more popular than ever
- Car insurance checklist
- Driving hell!
- Autofocus hocus pocus nixed
- Add to Kart
- Deer, oh deer, oh deer
- Trivial pursuit
- Inside Audi
- Bruv Cam Brouhaha
- Allianz anticipates process savings
- Not safe to drive says Swinton
- Noble charity initiative
- A pair of monkeys says it's a Bikesure thing
- Runaway bumpers
- Good evenable constanting. Is there a problem?
- Texting farmers cause alarm
- Examining the art of insurance oratory
- ►June(20)
- Ca Coutts tres cher
- BLD on ride
- Dirty
- Careless fraudster
- Bitter pillion
- New date for Monkey Business
- Shell's logistical song
- Feeling sick already
- Unaffordable luxury
- English hopes flagging
- Monkey Business latest
- Car or van of (self) love
- Europe braces for GB motor maniacs
- Testing times
- Driven to distraction
- PMG saddle up for charity ride
- Rock of ageist
- Pothole loophole
- It's a wild world out there
- IAG hit by UK motor
- ►May(18)
- Bike insurance boring? Not any more!
- Skinflints court disaster
- Monkey alert!
- Apil appeals for upping prang payouts
- Women make better directors
- Gangplank is floatation aid for bodily injured RBSI
- eVehicles headed for the Brightside of the street
- Don't be a statistic!
- Double win for ARAG at Claims Technology Awards
- The lowest form of wit (get it here)
- What does that pedal do again?
- Attention pedestrians: hybrid vehicle approaching
- International corner
- Penalty points loophole: fact or fantasy?
- Fresh bunch of RSA figures out
- Size zero fears for skinny Helphire
- The further decline of western civilization
- Those MoJ reforms in focus
- ►April(20)
- Motorway mayhem
- Slight return
- Speed cameras from space
- Unfit to drive
- Write-offs on the rampage (nothing to do with the Bullingdon Club)
- Central Outsource Claims to Bankstone
- You're driving me crazy
- Come on Barbie, let's go party
- Insurers feel the heat as policyholders cash in
- Young insurers target females
- Key deal done
- BIBA hails digital delivery dawn
- Claims cheats caught on camera
- Insurers ask more interesting questions
- Motor cars damaged by hailstorms
- Quinn corner
- Carnage
- Glove action
- Car costs up say grocers
- Easter break
- ►March(20)
- SAM incoming
- Insurance news gets weirder
- Must-see video you've probably already must-seen
- Bike test under scrutiny
- What did you do in the Ice Age, Dad?
- Bend it like Benty
- Special Reader Offer!
- Admiral admits residencism
- Direct AXAion commands respect
- Hoot if you like to shoot
- From strength to cheating at scrabble
- Crash-crazed Scots car cops kerfuffle
- Caravan gang banged up
- Marshall plan to take Advantage
- Highlighting hazardous holes
- The truth about insurance claims
- The fatal allure of an audience
- Free your hands!
- A touch too much mobility
- Virgin's five-year hitch fears
- ►February(19)
- The poetry of potholes
- ...as in "holes"
- Back to front
- Bike fall gives GB a testing time
- Tysoe returns
- How to get 2 whales in a golf buggy
- Time's up Gramps - it's the bus for you now
- The need for speed prevails
- Sun poses threat says Telegraph
- Tysoe in transpennine quest for truth
- Fresh leads in the Windermere Triangle mystery
- Beware of angry cats warns frustrated Sean
- It's got £s and %s, so it must be true
- Where has all the romance gone?
- Older women: stop them before they kill
- Did you know... ?
- Web cars coming soon
- Don't panic!
- QBE in oval sponsorship deal
- ►January(19)
- [story title goes here] or it would if we had a story
- Elephant sounds the collision alarm
- Quick buck syndrome strikes again
- Nameless comparator in bubble-wrapped cars stunt
- The buck stops here
- Do you recognise this man?
- Jackson reviewed
- Piste off
- Helphire's little year of horrors
- Jackson reports
- Zurich takes the plunge on rates
- Bankstone get Goulding
- Britain's roads in ruin, AA warns
- Hold tight
- See the sights, feel alright
- QBE calls time on personal motor
- IPT extension gets off to a flying stop
- S.O.B. campaign to save our biking
- Set the satnav for the heart of the Sun
- ►December(15)
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- ►December(15)
- See Monkey Moviestars on YouTube
- Giant safety blow for Slough
- Stone rolls
- Drivers demand insurers check their licences
- Last minute news update
- No news is Bankstone News
- Shares issue broker goes for growth
- Young'uns need not pay nasally
- More Capita fallout
- Do's and don't's of double D driving
- Learner driver problems shredded
- Testdrive the Vauxhall Leanne
- Life in the bus lane (surely make you lose your mind)
- Driving just too dangerous, claims Virgin
- True Brit?
- ►November(19)
- Why outsource claims?
- Shock of the week
- Save our ancient motors!
- Lords bestir themselves to combat silent menace on our streets
- I’m a fire-raiser, wilful fire-raiser!
- Oakland outsource to Bankstone
- Vid hats on the streets of Bolton
- Sex War, Sex War
- Helphire helps new partner into driving seat
- (Star) sign of the times
- A new solution for learner drivers
- Just say no
- Creative car crime corner
- Brits get away for Christmas
- Speeding biker's record-breaking feat
- Wrongful restraint is a pain in the neck
- 3PC crackdown coming?
- AA man makes a premium rate call
- Birdseye view of credit hire
- ►October(21)
- Picture Story
- I think I see the problaaaaagghhh!!!
- Keepin' it in da family
- C4C cops net East End whiplashers
- Refund offer for PPI mispurchasers
- Meerkat (marmot?) mascot on the market
- Crash for cash: an apology
- Endless summer
- Tories declare war on speed camera army
- Greenwood to run broker development
- Accident Exchange on the skids
- Crush first, ask questions later
- New claims role for Wooster
- Fraud Award for Allianz
- Attack of the clones
- Bradford fraud factory shut down
- Etching for victory in the clone wars
- Shene take a shine to Bankshtone
- Harvest of death
- Milton Keynes, it's the pits
- Making the case for canine restraint
- ►September(23)
- Credit hire debate intensifies
- Summer scenery drives Brits to distraction
- Insurer scoops Bodyshop Magazine award
- Coming of age in the car culture
- Bankstone Babes
- Appointment news
- From our London office
- Who, me guvner?
- Bankstone trains
- Call that a deterrent?
- BIBA modest over crackdown role
- RAC bemoans driver inattention
- Verbal hostilities over TPI
- Messy eater's heart of gold
- AA frets over freeflowing thoroughfares threat
- Bankstone recruits
- Churchill fingers claims main offenders
- Yet more claims fraud reported
- On course for business success
- Phantom menace
- Casting an eye on comparers
- Now Axa axes GTA
- Flux forges ahead
- ►August(19)
- A dark presence broods over Britain's roads
- Aviva takes to the water for new ads
- w@ dz cmplsry mean?
- Admiral splices mainbrace as profits rise
- Second hand news (as usual)
- Mythbustin' with Sweeno
- GoBacktothedrawingboard
- Advantageous website launched
- Claims and counterclaims
- Bankstone Advantage's Premier deal
- Aviva turns green
- Who says insurance isn't sexy!
- Revolution at RSA
- Insurers reluctant to fund overseas travel
- A Passage to Endure
- Motor rates rising
- Mad, bad, and too poor to insure
- Swindon swinges speedcams
- FSA storm warning light on detail
- ►July(21)
- Yellow peril
- DT on the radio
- Sifting the scrappage scraps
- Bewitched, bothered and bewildered
- Comparing comes of age
- Drink and drugs and texting
- A new twist in the credit hire saga
- Motor profits? No faqing chance!
- Chatterton back at Helphire
- 15 Monkeys, 1 seven-foot bear
- Here we come!
- Bikers happy paying tax
- Rear Admiral
- Monkey Moviestars Location 10: Scarborough
- What's so great about biking?
- Urgent appeal for charidee costumes
- Feminists fuss over Top Gear tips
- Snowball in the Suncorp hot seat
- Green shouts
- Fewer bikers dead
- A-road spells danger
- ►June(19)
- Any colour you like, so long as it's green
- Car crash crime against a grim grey backdrop
- Cutting corners on insurance spend
- Fraudulent claims up says ABI
- Bankstone to endure anew in 2009
- Monkey Moviestars Location 9: Castle Howard
- Spare us the chopper
- Bingle!
- Scrap, innit?
- Signing off
- Jackson Review rolls into town
- Fleet drivers take note(s)
- Liberate a database today*
- Reporter in a jam
- Aon in the red
- Monkey Moviestars Location 8: Goathland
- Scrappage quibbles mount
- Car boots worth billions
- No VAT aggro for aggregators
- ►May(23)
- Size matters
- Doin' it for the kids
- Grounds for concern
- Sports spell driver danger
- Get giving!
- Fleet risk revelation
- Used vans used more, new vans less
- Excuse me Sir, is that your car?
- Techno motor bounty hunters
- Live fast, die middle aged
- No online licence checking for now
- Monkey Moviestars Location 7: The Golden Lion Hotel, Northallerton
- Does my bum look big in this?
- Combatting the crack crisis on our streets
- A better way of handling personal lines claims
- Motor premiums to rocket, AA claims
- Help Hire!
- Monkey Moviestars Location 6: Elland Road
- Double-edged sword slated for long grass?
- New Bennetts ads preach gospel of inclusion
- ABI claims age aims unattainable
- Direct goes face to face
- Monkey Moviestars Location 5: Thirsk
- ►April(25)
- Pop goes the ban on musicians
- Scrappaging around for a silver lining
- NIG slims down to get closer to brokers
- Police crack down on Magoo
- Road legal bikes for just £575!
- Carry on comparing
- Swings and roundabout insurance-jobs-wise
- Monkey Movie Stars Location 4: Aysgarth Falls
- Adams joins the ex-fleet list at Helphire
- Bikers shortchanged in road safety plans?
- Trial run for charity bike ride
- Lies, damned lies: some statistics
- Job worries create fatigue epidemic
- Recession fuels fraud says ABI
- Fun with the insurance fraudsters
- Monkey Moviestars location 3: Ilkley
- Some people spend less on insurance
- Seeking salvation from scrappage
- Interesting times in W. Yorks
- Few takers for new vans and trucks
- Banks put an end to Autodex
- Monkey Moviestars Latest
- The fatal effects of minor fleet prangs
- Cheaper premiums? The answer may be in your stars
- Cops crush 70,000 uninsured vehicles
- ►March(19)
- Hydra nets crash for cash fraudsters
- Flux picks up the EV baton
- Monkey Moviestars Location 2: Whitby
- Ladies 1, Gentlemen 0?
- Jones' BMW Cliffhanger
- Monumental distraction
- Yes, phones more risky than booze
- Monkey Moviestars Location 1: Halifax
- Law tightens on credit hire paperwork
- Bad apples multiply
- AA sees further moral decline
- Where will Chaucer be next month?
- Icing on the lake
- Saga's savers survey, savvy?
- Speed cuts, cameras, Steve McQueen
- Compare the marketing, no contest
- Koala confusion for Admiral Angelheart
- Generation uninsurable
- Row over ABI's age concern
- ►February(24)
- Pop goes our faith in insurers' ads
- Motor fraud hotspots spill over
- Swansea scoops car claims crown
- New backing for thrusting brokers
- Liverpool in ETA blast
- Notorious Pole brought to book
- Millions confess immorality to RSA
- Stiffened sheet in view for Helphire
- Monkey bike to the stars
- BIBA rage at FSA hike plans
- Rural researchers estimate claims surge
- NU concerned about cannabis
- Lifting the lid on car valuations
- Unmarried Mark II makes plans
- More Hastings less paid
- Bluefin expands in Cumbria
- APIL decries strong arms of insurers and weak eyes of the FSA
- Transactor and Bankstone launch new outsourced claims platform
- Second-best Brits up spend on claims technology
- Zenith tires of limp response to fraud
- A third-hand mis-selling story
- NU's guide to fleet insurance scams
- Insurers talk up motor fleet rates
- Airmic points the way to best perfect
- ►January(15)
- BGL ACM ULR MD
- New sales head for Bankstone
- Insurers welcome car crush law
- Beware low-speed crash damage, fleet managers warned
- New powers to tackle uninsured vehicles
- Brit launches fleet tweaks
- New tack for RAC Motor Insurance
- Devine intervenes for Kwik-Fit
- Monkey Movie Stars
- Snowball goes for RBSI
- MotoGP moves to Silverstone from 2010
- Irregular helmets fuel Nigeria's traffic tensions
- IAG: Everybody's happy nowadays
- Helphire Mark I officially retired
- RBSi still up for sale
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