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13.09.19

Domestic Violence

No convictions in Police Scotland’s officer abuse investigations

The Bureau requested details on the number of Scottish police officers who were subject to complaints of domestic abuse and found none had been convicted

11.09.19

Shadow Wars

US strikes in Afghanistan rose by half before Taliban peace talks collapsed

The air war in Afghanistan intensified in August. Whether this trend will continue remains to be seen, with Taliban talks collapsing and Trump's national security advisor out.

11.09.19

Local Power

Councils ignoring public right to audit accounts

The Bureau Local sent volunteers and reporters to exercise their right to see local authority accounts, but soon found obstructions and ignorance of the law

09.09.19

Local Power

Government turns blind eye as council sells “family silver” to pay bills

Despite the Bureau revealing that Peterborough council had potentially breached guidelines on selling public assets, the government has decided to take no further action

19.08.19

Global Superbugs

Drug company reps give quack doctors fridges and televisions to sell antibiotics

Salesmen from India's largest pharmaceutical companies told our undercover reporter they encouraged unqualified doctors to prescribe antibiotics, contributing to the global superbug crisis

07.08.19

London trader charged in Germany for VAT fraud

A former Deutsche Bank trader in London has been charged by German prosecutors for his suspected role in VAT fraud.

06.08.19

Dying 15 years younger: the difference between rich and poor in Oxford

We talked to people from one of the most deprived wards in Oxford, a city with a vast gap in life expectancy between rich and poor

31.07.19

Shadow Wars

Threefold rise in civilian casualties from US air strikes in Afghanistan

Hundreds more Afghan civilians are being killed or injured by US air strikes as the allied forces step up the aerial campaign against the Taliban

22.07.19

Global Superbugs

India bans use of "last hope" antibiotic on farms

After a Bureau investigation into the use of colistin to boost growth in chicken farming, the Indian government has banned the practice

16.07.19

Binary Options

UPDATE: Binary options boss convicted of $145m fraud

UPDATE: "Queen of binary options" Lee Elbaz whose role was exposed by the Bureau in 2016, convicted on four counts relating to $145m fraud

10.07.19

UK hosts press freedom summit while fighting for right to spy on media

Bureau fights government in European Court of Human Rights over GCHQ spying on press

02.07.19

Food and Farming

Revealed: How the global beef trade is destroying the Amazon

A huge cattle ranch business is flouting bans designed to protect the rainforest and selling its cows to the world's largest meat company, our investigation has found

02.07.19

Food and Farming

Brazil sent 1 million contaminated chickens to the UK in two years

Our data analysis showed that Brazil is exporting tonnes of salmonella-infected frozen chicken to Europe despite its much lower standards

02.07.19

Food and Farming

JBS: The Brazilian butchers who took over the world

The world's biggest meat company has the power to impact climate change and openly admits to corruption, yet you've probably never heard of it

13.06.19

Food and Farming

How ammonia is killing off the countryside

The Bureau investigated the damage done to the environment by rising ammonia emissions from farms, and the simple steps farmers and government officials can take to prevent it

13.06.19

Food and Farming

Deadly gas: Cutting farm emissions in half could save 3,000 lives a year

Led by an expert analysis of how ammonia gas is damaging human health in the UK, we investigated why farms are not taking simple measures to reduce their pollution

09.06.19

From the UK to Dubai: On the trail of the "fraud of the century"

Individuals from the north west of England stole vast sums of taxpayers’ money through a series of frauds across Europe.

03.06.19

Shadow Wars

In video: How US "good guys" wiped out an Afghan family

This is the evidence which helped the Bureau together with the New York Times' Visual Investigations Unit prove the US carried out a strike which locals say killed eleven children

03.06.19

Shadow Wars

How US "good guys" wiped out an Afghan family

We proved in the face of US denial that its military carried out an airstrike that killed seven children, their mother and four young cousins in Afghanistan

29.05.19

Local Power

Grenfell tower timeline: The key events

A timeline giving details of when key decisions about the Grenfell tower refurbishment were made by Kensington and Chelsea council

No convictions in Police Scotland’s officer abuse investigations

US strikes in Afghanistan rose by half before Taliban peace talks collapsed

Councils ignoring public right to audit accounts

Government turns blind eye as council sells “family silver” to pay bills

Drug company reps give quack doctors fridges and televisions to sell antibiotics

London trader charged in Germany for VAT fraud

Dying 15 years younger: the difference between rich and poor in Oxford

Threefold rise in civilian casualties from US air strikes in Afghanistan

India bans use of "last hope" antibiotic on farms

UPDATE: Binary options boss convicted of $145m fraud

UK hosts press freedom summit while fighting for right to spy on media

Revealed: How the global beef trade is destroying the Amazon

Brazil sent 1 million contaminated chickens to the UK in two years

JBS: The Brazilian butchers who took over the world

How ammonia is killing off the countryside

Deadly gas: Cutting farm emissions in half could save 3,000 lives a year

From the UK to Dubai: On the trail of the "fraud of the century"

In video: How US "good guys" wiped out an Afghan family

How US "good guys" wiped out an Afghan family

Grenfell tower timeline: The key events

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