By
Archie Farmer
South West
•Published 19 June 2026
A man who spent £300,000 of Covid support on family holidays, private school fees, and other personal spending has been jailed.
Steven Brookes, 40, of Victoria Road, Bude, Cornwall, was jailed for three years and banned as a director for 10 years when he appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday.
He used funds from six fraudulently obtained Bounce Back Loans to pay for a trip to Disneyland, a holiday rental in Tenerife, and an Audi with personalised number plates for his wife, according to The Insolvency Service.
He previously plead guilty to six counts of fraud and five counts of acting as a director while disqualified at this crown court on the 12 Nov 2025.
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Imagine living in a country where you go straight to jail for a tweet, but get bail after being arrested for ‘allegedly’ throwing a 3 year old baby into a crocodile enclosure! The world is watching is disbelief!
Should phone shops, vape shops, and corner shops be able to sponsor “highly skilled” visas?
Thousands of these businesses across the country are bringing low skilled workers to Britain, on routes intended for people who are highly skilled.
It's a total joke.
£5,778,570 from Buckinghamshire Council to one taxi firm in 2025, across 3,215 transactions.
That's an average of £1,797.38 per transaction.
And yet people are saying there is nothing wrong here.
150,000 people get sickness benefits worth £5,000 a year - but the government has no idea why.
No diagnosis, no evidence on file - the government just hands out the money. Your money. £770 million of it.
This has to stop.
https://t.co/LZj3JIBWGf
@RupertLowe10 How you doing that then we can’t even get rid of criminals without years of appeals It would take years and millions of pounds in court fees
America is building rockets that can go to Mars and is taking AI to new levels.
Meanwhile, in Britain, our Government is banning underfloor heating and wants to regulate our use of towel rails.
I despair for our future under these student socialist imbeciles.
Starmer is utterly deluded.
Here he is thrilled that the Unilever site in Warrington which closed with 140 job losses is being replaced by a 260,000 Data Centre …
which will employ about 40 people in total, many remotely.
Datacentres will NOT solve growing unemployment, they will only help increase it.
Ed Miliband has signed the UK up to a legally binding 87% CO2 emissions cut by 2040. Paul Homewood says this can only be achieved by the devastation of industry and sharp cuts in the standard of living. Read his article in the Climate Skeptic. https://t.co/bGOg3zigaP