LONDON (Reuters) - A floating duck house, which came to symbolise a scandal which erupted last year over British politicians' expenses, has been sold and the money given to a cancer charity ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A floating duck house, which came to symbolize a parliamentary expenses scandal that rocked British politics last year, has been sold and the money given to a cancer ...

Sir Peter caused uproar in the summer when it was revealed that he tried to recoup the £1,645 cost of the 5ft floating duck house – designed to resemble an 18th Century building in Sweden.

The floating duck house claimed by Tory grandee Sir Peter Viggers is an unforgivable extravagance. But it was his arrogant colleague, Anthony Steen, who took the biscuit by portraying himself as a ...

In response to the Daily Telegraph revelation she wrote: "Wow...floating duck islands are a winner, they protect ducks from Foxes, does this mean we can all have one now?" The ‘Stockholm ...

An MP who was forced to stand down after claiming £1,645 on expenses for a floating duck house has now sold it for charity. Former Conservative MP for Gosport Sir Peter Viggers, 72, was ...

“There is nothing like it,” says Divine, who mentions bald eagles that preen and fish in front of the homes, and wood ducks and otters bobbing on the water. The floating house that Divine ...

The MP who tried to buy a floating duck house using his parliamentary allowances went on to spend a further £8,000 of taxpayers’ money on his garden last year. Sir Peter Viggers, whose claim ...

I may have made a mistake in the past but I am still being penalised for it.” The MP for Gosport’s bill for a floating duck house became a symbol of the 2009 scandal and forced him to end his Commons ...