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M.D. Danny Curran of Finders International joins BBC radio Leicester host Ben Jackson, and beneficiary Hilary Bane. The interview provides some insight into the first reactions of heirs on being contacted, and beneficiary, Hilary, shares her inheritance story. Click above to listen.

The entrepreneur praising the results of reality TV is Danny Curran, founder of Finders International, the company featured on BBC’s Heir Hunters.

According to an online database, there are 112 estates in Somerset that are currently sitting unclaimed with the Government.

Latest figures estimate that over 130,000 people living in the community aged 65+ have suffered financial abuse at some point since turning 65*. This, it would appear, is only the tip of a largely unreported financial abuse iceberg, according to David Lockwood of Finders International.

It has been revealed that there are over 40 estates that Plymouth people could claim before they are permanently handed over to the Crown.

Potential heirs to an unclaimed Harrogate estate could be in-line to 'pennies from heaven' after being tracked down by a star of the BBC show Heir Hunters.

There are over 400 estates in Surrey that are just waiting to be claimed. It's a little-known secret that the details of thousands of unclaimed estates are available online - and you could make a claim to one of them if you've got the right surname.

Thousands of estates left behind by Londoners are sitting in the government's care waiting to be claimed by the deceased's next of kin.

Daytime TV aficionados will know Finders International as the business that provides genealogists for the BBC’s Heir Hunters, says Elliott Haworth in City AM. Founder and CEO Danny Curran “spends his days trawling through birth, death, and marriage records” to track down the heirs to unclaimed estates. It’s a £50m industry, and Curran’s firm is dominant, thanks to the show.

According to an online database, there are 54 estates in Essex that are currently sitting unclaimed with the Government.