Phone scam targeting parents costs mum $4500
Jan Lenton thought she was lending her son some much-needed emergency cash - but $4500 later she realised she'd been the victim of a cruel scam.
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Newark-on-Trent
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Newark-on-Trent or Newark is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. It stands on the River Trent, the A1 – the ancient Great North Road – and the East Coast Main Line railway. Its origins may be Roman, as it lies on a major Roman road, the Fosse Way. A centre for the wool and cloth trades, it grew up round Newark Castle, now ruined, and a market place still lined with historic buildings. In... Show more the English Civil War, it was besieged by Parliamentary forces and relieved by Royalist forces under Prince Rupert. Today many Newark residents commute to the cities of Lincoln and Nottingham.
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