TBIJ

04.10.19

The Housing Crisis

Locked Out: How Britain keeps people homeless

The Bureau has analysed more than 62,000 rental adverts and found 94% of rented homes are too expensive for families on housing benefit

23.09.19

Environment

British egg farms breached salmonella rules more than 100 times

After revealing that salmonella in British eggs had poisoned 100 people, the Bureau discovered that rules to control the disease had been breached across the sector

20.09.19

Environment

Exclusive: At least 100 cases of salmonella poisoning from British eggs

The Bureau can exclusively reveal that British eggs have been contaminated with a dangerous strain of salmonella, despite recent government assurances that they are safe

20.09.19

Global Superbugs

‘Invisible’ pharmacists selling knock-off drugs: the rise of antibiotic resistance in Cambodia

For the first time researchers have spoken to unregistered pharmacists selling antibiotics in Cambodia and discovered startling misuse of the drugs

17.09.19

Environment

UK purchased £1bn of beef from firms tied to Amazon deforestation

The Bureau and Repórter Brasil have discovered that a major Brazilian meat company bought cows from a ranch that had been fined weeks earlier for breaking environmental protection rules

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

Environment

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

02.07.19

Environment

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

Environment

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

13.06.19

Environment

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

Locked Out: How Britain keeps people homeless

British egg farms breached salmonella rules more than 100 times

Exclusive: At least 100 cases of salmonella poisoning from British eggs

‘Invisible’ pharmacists selling knock-off drugs: the rise of antibiotic resistance in Cambodia

UK purchased £1bn of beef from firms tied to Amazon deforestation

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

JBS: The Brazilian butchers who took over the world

Revealed: How the global beef trade is destroying the Amazon

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

How ammonia is killing off the countryside

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