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Cowboy

since 2025 › Jan › 18 (Sat) @ 08:16 UTC

auto-detected in 19 stories

7 hours ago

Cowboy builder leaves couple's home in ruins and makes off with £100,000: Devastated wife reveals how the stress led to her losing a baby - but bank won't accept they've been defrauded ⊖⊖

found 2025 › Dec › 06 (Sat) @ 14:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Andy Clarke, 46, and his then-pregnant wife, Lisa Clarke, 43, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, were forced to pay another firm £150,000 to get the work completed.

30 days ago

Cowboy builder who swindled homeowners out of £200,000 and chased woman for cash as her father died is jailed for four years ⊖⊖

found 2025 › Nov › 06 (Thu) @ 02:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

James Morgan harassed and intimidated terrified customers into handing over payments during a two-year period, bombarding them with messages or lurking outside their homes.

38 days ago

‘Cable Cowboy’ John Malone to step down from his media empire ⊕

found 2025 › Oct › 29 (Wed) @ 17:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Retirement of billionaire, 84, leaves Rupert Murdoch as last of that generation to be actively involved in media business

Billionaire media mogul John Malone, the so-called “Cable Cowboy”, is stepping…

54 days ago

Cowboy builder, 39, who fleeced customers out of £100k and persuaded woman on dating app to give him almost £30k is jailed ⊖

found 2025 › Oct › 13 (Mon) @ 20:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Cowboy builder Steven Fidler, 39, has been jailed for six years after fleecing a string of customers out of £100,000 - and persuading a woman he met on a dating website to give him £29,300.

75 days ago

Cowboy builder who left family with two disabled children £36k out of pocket and with leaking roof before flashing their cash at nightclub is jailed

found 2025 › Sep › 22 (Mon) @ 19:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Rogue tradesman Jason Brice had been employed by mother-of-two Jaime Fagan to build a loft conversion for her two teenage sons with special needs.

4 months ago

Westside Cowboy’s ramshackle Americana – plus the week’s best new tracks

found 2025 › Jul › 25 (Fri) @ 11:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The Manchester band have coined the ungainly term ‘Britainicana’ for their sound – but their mix of punky vigour and country classicism rattles along at high speed

From Manchester
Recommended if you li…

Cowboy builder went on foreign holidays and golf trips as he left work unfinished and swindled customers out of £150,000

found 2025 › Jul › 19 (Sat) @ 18:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Paul Atkinson, 46, failed to finish building work at a number of homes despite taking cash from vulnerable clients and leaving them swindled out of £150,000.

US rivers are full of dumped tires. The ‘River Cowboy’ won’t stand for it

found 2025 › Jul › 17 (Thu) @ 11:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Tires take decades to decompose, and millions are improperly dumped every year. An intrepid group sets out to clear Kentucky’s ‘conveyor belt of trash’

In the 1980s, Russ Miller and his wife moved to …

5 months ago

‘You know it when you see it’: experts size up scientists’ attempt to define cool

found 2025 › Jul › 05 (Sat) @ 11:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Sought-after status moves in mysterious ways that elude rules and norms, say the initiated

It has puzzled philosophers, scholars and those aspiring to be cool for generations: what is it that makes so…

Cowboy builder charged families £100k for their dream kitchens and then never installed them

found 2025 › Jun › 29 (Sun) @ 15:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Jamie Brown, 56, left 19 families in despair when he turned their homes upside down, ghosted them and then finally admitted he would not be returning to finish the job or hand back their cash.

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