Day: 25 January 2013

OFT warns significant change needed in current account market – The Guardian

Posted January 25th, 2013 in banking, competition, news by tracey

“More competition is needed among providers of current accounts, the Office of Fair Trading said on Friday after finding the major banks had increased their dominance in the £9bn market. The OFT said ‘significant further’ changes were required as it warned that the market was not ‘working well for consumers or the wider economy’but decided against a full referral to the Competition Commission. It will conduct another review in 2015.”

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The Guardian, 25th January 2013

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Mother of wandering Flintshire street boy, 5, is warned – BBC News

Posted January 25th, 2013 in alcohol abuse, child neglect, news, suspended sentences by tracey

“The mother of a five-year-old boy found wandering a Flintshire street at night
has been given an eight week suspended prison sentence.”

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BBC News, 24th January 2013

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Briton who took on Sergei Magnitsky network faces libel case in UK – The Independent

Posted January 25th, 2013 in corruption, defamation, news by tracey

“A former Moscow police officer is suing a British businessman who exposed how a network of corrupt officials and shadowy criminal underworld figures were behind the largest tax fraud in Russian history. Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Karpov has launched libel and defamation proceedings in the High Court against William Browder, a millionaire hedge-fund magnate who has campaigned against corruption within the Russian government after his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was tortured and died in police custody.”

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The Independent, 24th January 2013

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New rules for bailiffs industry – The Independent

Posted January 25th, 2013 in bailiffs, debts, news, professional conduct, regulations by tracey

“Bailiffs will be regulated under new laws to ‘clean up’ the industry and protect vulnerable debtors, the Government has announced.”

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The Independent, 25th January 2013

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Police exaggerating fall in crime rate – Daily Telegraph

Posted January 25th, 2013 in crime, news, police, statistics by tracey

“Police have exaggerated the fall in crime by downgrading hundreds of thousands of offences to meet targets, the Office for National Statistics has said.”

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Daily Telegraph, 24th January 2013

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Earl of Cardigan acquitted of assault – Daily Telegraph

Posted January 25th, 2013 in assault, news by tracey

“The Earl of Cardigan, whose family name is famed for its link to the Charge of the Light Brigade, was also found not guilty of a charge of criminal damage. Salisbury Magistrates’ Court heard the earl, 60, was accused of assaulting John Moore by beating on April 29 last year – just over a week after he lost a legal row with Mr Moore over ancestral portraits at the 4,500-acre Savernake Estate, near Marlborough, Wiltshire.”

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Daily Telegraph, 24th January 2013

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