Having experienced a few “shocking new lows” itself, Coming Up finds itself in the strange position of feeling sympathy for Wonga.
The normally scrupulously fair and entirely reputable payday lender has been caught out.
It would appear the firm’s legal representatives, Chainey, D’Amato & Shannon have landed them in quite the pickle by not actually existing.
Likewise, Barker and Lowe Legal Recoveries is similarly conspicuous by its absence from anything other than Wonga’s imagination.
The company catchphrase, Straight Talking Money has been using the two madey-uppy legal firms to call in debts and threaten further action.
It has been fined £2.6 million. Wonder what the APR is on that?
Other than stories of hard-pressed moneylenders being targeted by the authorities, we have a bumper crop of stories in Thursday’s Courier.
One such bumper crop was found dumped in a Fife tip. 70 tonnes of strawberries were binned by fruit growers. We reveal why.
Maybe they should have directed all the berries to Wimbledon where they could be snapped up at a bargain £250 for 10 (we made that figure up but it won’t be far off).
They could have been served up during Andy Murray’s latest stroll on the path to glory, watched by his mum and Camilla.
We were on site for the announcement of the new T in the Park site (even though we’d already furnished you with all the relevant information the day before). We like a day out though.
And we have full details of the Stirling and St Andrews graduations, where the boffin’s boffin, Peter Higgs was being boffed on the head and handed a sheet of vellum.
And we also reveal the cost to each of us of the Royal Family. An eye-watering 56p a year. Anyone got the number for a reputable moneylender?