The director of a plant hire company has been disqualified as a director for a period of seven years for failing to ensure that adequate books and records of the company were maintained, preserved and/or delivered up to the Liquidator. Read more...
Preston Crown Court has sentenced a crane company to a £700,000 fine after the company was found guilty of corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive has prosecuted two companies after a scaffolder was killed just weeks away from his wedding day. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted Cranfield University, after a worker suffered potentially life-threatening injuries while dismantling a bomblet. Read more...
Haringey Council in north London is working with national housing and support provider Sanctuary Supported Living (SSL) to create an innovative pathway of services in housing-related support to help people with medium to high mental health support needs make the successful transition to independent living. Read more...
Tower Hamlets in east London has been chosen by the Department for Education as one of 22 pilot areas across the country to improve mental health services for children and young people. Read more...
A greengrocer based in Edgware, north London has been fined for offering for sale and selling rotten fruit and vegetables that failed to meet minimum quality standards. Read more...
A construction company has been fined after failing to comply with a prohibition notice preventing workers from sleeping on a site where 384 homes were being developed – resulting in 48 workers being re-housed in safe sleeping accommodation. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a company manufacturing pre-cast concrete panels, after a worker was injured while loading freestanding concrete units onto a vehicle. Read more...
The Old Bailey has sentenced a man convicted on 13 counts of terrorism to four-and-a-half years in prison. Read more...
Completion times for care proceedings in the family court in Wales have been cut by more than half, with nearly 77% of cases completed within a new 26-week time limit, according to a new report. Read more...
Government ministers have met with Syrian refugees in Kent who are spending their first Christmas holiday in the UK, after arriving here as part of the government’s resettlement programme for up to 20,000 refugees in camps along the Syrian border who are fleeing civil war and ISIL in Syria. Read more...
A new centre in Cannock, Staffordshire will offer support and mental health services to those with substance abuse issue, in an attempt to help them turn their lives around. Read more...
Home Office figures have revealed that UK Border Force officials thwarted a total of 30,629 attempts by migrants to cross illegally from Calais to the UK between April and July this year – almost as many attempts as in the whole of the previous year to March 2015, which stands at 39,546. Read more...
A woman who gave her husband-to-be her house before she went bankrupt has been sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment, suspended for 24 months. Read more...
A 25-year-old man from west London has pleaded guilty to three offences of fly tipping. Read more...
An investigation by Staffordshire County Council’s Trading Standards team has led to suspended sentences and community orders for four men who planned to flood the Midlands and other areas with counterfeit goods with a street value of £1.5 million. Read more...
A manufacturing firm has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), after a 26-year-old worker was fatally crushed when his arm was caught in a powered roller. Read more...
Bristol Crown Court has found two police officers guilty of misconduct in a public office, after they failed to act to protect a vulnerable man, Bijan Ebrahimi, who was killed after being harassed in his own home by vigilantes. Read more...
Work has begun on a new urban village to be sited just outside the Welsh capital Cardiff. Read more...
A London restaurateur who owed £1.3 million to HMRC has been disqualified from acting as a company director for 12 years. Read more...
The Welsh government has launched new measures to ensure that prisoners who leave prison will have access to secure accommodation, rather than being placed in bed and breakfast accommodation on their release. Read more...
The Treasury has announced that child victims of the Holocaust will be exempt from inheritance tax on compensation payouts from the Child Survivor Fund for the WWII atrocities they survived. Read more...
Bradford Crown Court has found ten men guilty of a total of 16 charges of raping a child – and an eleventh man, Mohammed Akram, has been convicted of sexual activity with a child. Read more...
The Wirral-based health and wellbeing charity ARCH1 has joined forces with Wirral South Constituency Committee to support disadvantaged, vulnerable and isolated members of the community. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted Sevenoaks District Council in Kent, after a member of the public was killed when he collided with a council road sweeper. Read more...
The Welsh Government pledged an additional £21.7 million in its Draft Budget, to increase the number of social houses in Wales. Read more...
The government has announced new measures to help tackle homelessness and ensure there is a strong safety net in place for the most vulnerable people in society. Read more...
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that veterans with mesothelioma can now receive lump sums of £140,000, in a move to make MoD compensation arrangements fairer and on a par with mesothelioma compensation for civilians. Read more...
Gateshead Council has been awarded a share of £3.5 million in funding to tackle domestic violence. Read more...
The Welsh Government has announced it is investing up to £290 million in the second phase of Help to Buy - Wales. Read more...
The director of a solar energy company involved in supplying energy efficient insulations has been disqualified for eight years, after an investigation by the Insolvency Service found that he had failed to account for more than £90,000 in assets purchased by his company – and had transferred in excess of £122,000 to his partner, at a time when he knew the company owed a customer money it had received erroneously and had no prospect of repaying. Read more...
A London company which offered the public the opportunity to invest in carbon credits or diamonds has been ordered into liquidation in the High Court on grounds of public interest, following an investigation by the Insolvency Service and video-linked court evidence from investors. Read more...
The annual Christmas THINK! campaign to prevent drunk driving is warning drivers about the risks of driving the morning after a big night out. Read more...
Liverpool Crown Court has sentenced three men a total of nearly 19 years in jail for conspiracy to supply cocaine. Read more...
A restaurateur who employed two illegal workers at his Hertfordshire restaurant has been disqualified for six years from being a director of a limited company. Read more...
Havering Council is calling on more foster carers to come forward, as the number of teenagers in need of fostering continues to rise. Read more...
The Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP, has referred the sentences of 14 members of a Birmingham gang to the Court of Appeal, on the grounds they were too lenient. Read more...
Southwark Crown Court has given a retired doctor a suspended prison sentence, after he pleaded guilty to illegally selling medicines for the treatment of male pattern baldness. Read more...
Liverpool Crown Court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment, after he killed a woman acting as a “Good Samaritan”, who tried to protect a baby caught up in a row between him and another woman. Read more...
A greengrocer in Burnley, Lancashire has been prosecuted for selling defective fruit and for mislabelling offences. Read more...
An unauthorised provider of immigration services has been prosecuted and fined, after pleading guilty to providing unregulated immigration advice and services. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has successfully prosecuted two major companies, after a representative of one of the companies – Siemens plc – was killed in a wind turbine. Read more...
The government has announced the launch of a youth led website run by teenagers, to help educate other young adults about female genital mutilation (FGM) and steps they can take to prevent the practice. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a manufacturer of coated metals, after an employee suffered a fractured foot and shoulder when he fell three metres into a drying pit from a ladder. Read more...
Researchers at King’s College London have collaborated with leading hypnotist Paul McKenna to devise a new technique to ease anxiety and depression. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a building firm, after a construction firm working in Leicester allowed workers to throw sacks of rubble from a building project opposite a police station. Read more...
Landmark reforms to children’s services will mean failing services in local authorities will be taken over by high-performing authorities, teams of experts and charities. Read more...
The Welsh Government has signed a new agreement to improve the system of care and support for people in a mental health crisis. Read more...
Canterbury Crown Court has jailed two men for a total of 30 years, over the killing of a man in Chatham, Kent. Read more...
The government has announced the 46 local authorities which placed successful bids for a share of £3.5 million to support domestic abuse victims.
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Researchers from Lancaster University, Brunel University London and the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust have updated the findings of a 2014 study that confirmed a “hidden population” of mothers caught up in a cycle of family court proceedings, with one child after another being removed from their mother’s care. Read more...
Blackpool Council has warned consumers to be wary of a batch of dangerous Christmas fairy lights, which were bought on eBay and began to smoulder and give off smoke once plugged in. Read more...
A director who mis-sold insurance policies which were not underwritten by an insurer has been disqualified from acting as a director for 11 years. Read more...
The Court of Appeal has increased the jail terms of two men convicted on charges of robbery to a total of 19 years’ imprisonment each, with an extended four-year licence period for a number of violent offences. Read more...
The first wave of new starter homes is underway thanks to £8 million of government funding. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a company which removed asbestos from the ceiling of a school, despite not holding a licence for asbestos work. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a company which manufactures office equipment, after a trainee worker was injured when he was crushed by a metal folding machine. Read more...
A company director has been disqualified for nine years, after failing to maintain, preserve and deliver up accounting records after a company was placed into Liquidation. Read more...
The Home Office is to launch an enhanced modern slavery helpline in 2016, to help more survivors of modern slavery and make it easier for the UK public to report suspected exploitation. Read more...
The Housing Minister Brandon Lewis has announced plans to build two new garden towns at Didcot in Oxfordshire and North Essex, to provide up to 50,000 new homes and new infrastructure. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted two companies, after two workers suffered fatal injuries in a machinery accident. Read more...
Liverpool Crown Court has sentenced a Cheshire lorry driver to 30 months in jail and has and banned him from driving for six years, after a crash that left one man dead and two people with serious injuries. Read more...
Southwark Crown Court has sentenced eight defendants who defrauded the London Borough of Haringey in a fraud totalling more than £400,000. Read more...
A new domestic and sexual violence support service has been launched in Rutland – enabling victims of domestic abuse in Leicestershire and Rutland to obtain help from a single joint service with one contact number. Read more...
The England Illegal Money Lending Team social media campaign to promote the Stop Loan Sharks message will run until Christmas, to help protect householders and others from the hazards of borrowing money from loan sharks. Read more...
The London Borough of Islington is due to welcome its first Syrian refugees when five families from Syria arrive in mid-December from camps on the Syrian border. Read more...
A judge has ruled that environmental health officers from Portsmouth City Council were right to ban a Southsea restaurant from selling burgers that were pink in the middle. Read more...
City of Wolverhampton Council has hailed the success of Operation Riposte raids to tackle suspected immigration offenders and the sale of illegal cigarettes and alcohol. Read more...
Trading Standards officers are warning consumers to be on the lookout for dangerous hoverboards, after officers intercepted a £7,000 consignment of 51 self-balancing boards imported from China – and sent them for testing to see if they complied with electrical safety standards. Read more...
Uttlesford District Council has successfully prosecuted two drivers for illegally operating as a private hire vehicle without a licence at Stansted Airport. Read more...
A leaked report by NHS England South has suggested that health trust Southern England may not have fully investigated patient deaths – including deaths among mental health patients, the elderly and patients with learning disabilities. Read more...
The directors of two London-based companies have been disqualified, after an investigation by the Insolvency Service found that Voluntary Emission Reductions (VERs) certificates – a type of carbon credit certificate –
were mis-sold to members of the public as an investment. Read more...
Wyre Council has prosecuted a benefit claimant who fraudulently income-based claimed benefits over several years. Read more...
Legal 500 “Leading Law Firm” Duncan Lewis are pleased to announce the appointment of Lucy Philps- Tate and Sophie Fretten as Public Law and Family & Childcare Directors respectively. Read more...
The director of an electrical installation company which went into liquidation has been disqualified for failing to advise HMRC of VAT and tax figures. Read more...
Peterborough City Council has prosecuted an unlicensed tattoo artist in the first case of its kind in Peterborough. Read more...
Border Force officers are warning shoppers not to buy counterfeit goods at Christmas, after seizing thousands of fake products at UK ports, airports and postal hubs. Read more...
The incident happened at the Hillington Industrial Estate in Glasgow on the 30 December 2011, when an unnamed 50-year-old worker was working on a mobile scaffolding platform during demolition of a building.
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a construction site manager, after a worker was injured while working at height. Read more...
A Paignton-based contractor has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a gas flue was removed during a re-roofing contract, potentially putting a tenant’s life at risk. Read more...
A director who acted as managing director (MD) for a company while disqualified has been jailed and disqualified at Worcester Crown Court. Read more...
The Court of Appeal has imposed an extended sentence of imprisonment on Swansea armed robber Robert Quinn, after finding him to be a dangerous offender. Read more...
The Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb has said that the government’s efforts to improve rehabilitation will reduce re-offending, cut crime and make the UK’s streets safer. Read more...
A homeless man in Wigan Borough who breached an injunction order has been sentenced to prison, after being caught begging. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted food manufacturer Princes Ltd, after a worker suffered chemical burns. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has successfully prosecuted a roofing company after a worker suffered injury to his arm in machinery. Read more...
The managing director of a stockbrokers has been disqualified for eight years, after misleading the then Financial Standard Authority (FSA) – and causing his company to trade while in breach of financial rules and regulations regarding use of client monies. Read more...
A home financier from Walsall in the West Midlands has been given a 13-year bankruptcy restriction, after breaching the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) regulations relating to “sale and rent back” (SRB) agreements. Read more...
A Kent shopkeeper has been prosecuted, after an investigation by the Horticultural Marketing Inspectorate (HMI) found quality defects and labelling offences in fruit and vegetables sold at his store. Read more...
South West Water has been ordered to pay more than £300,000 in fines and costs, after polluting a Devon watercourse. Read more...
The government has announced a consultation on further measures to protect victims of stalking, domestic abuse and violence. Read more...
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and NHS England have launched a multi-million pound joint mental health pilot scheme for hundreds of schools. Read more...
The Minister for Childcare and Education, Sam Gyimah MP, has told a conference in London that the UK has reached a turning point in how children’s mental health issues are tackled. Read more...
Buckinghamshire Council’s Cabinet has approved a groundbreaking pilot scheme to help people suffering a short-term housing crisis. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has successfully prosecuted the landlord of a property in Plymouth, after he risked the lives of his tenants through by a dangerous gas boiler installed in the flat. Read more...
Buckinghamshire Trading Standards are warning about the dangers of using the illegal drug 2.4 Dinitrophenol (DNP) for weight reduction and bodybuilding, in an autumn campaign aimed at students in the county. Read more...
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to fund a trial of life changing surgery for amputees, paid for by the Armed Forces Covenant (LIBOR) Fund. Read more...
Durham City Council is warning that more people than ever are “paying the price” for committing environmental crimes – from dog fouling to fly tipping. Read more...
Worcestershire County Council^s Children^s Social Care has been working with Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust and Worcestershire Health and Care Trust to develop a joint Children^s Urgent Mental Health Care Protocol. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted an electrical services company, after three workers were injured during refurbishment work at a building at Prominent Building on Five Ways Island, Hagley Road in central Birmingham. Read more...
The Department of Health (DoH) has announced a number of important developments in the support of victims of modern slavery, to be shared with staff in health and adult social care services. Read more...
Liverpool Housing Partnership is on course to build the first 600 new homes to be delivered by partners Redrow Homes, social housing provider Liverpool Mutual Homes (LMH) and property contractor Wilmott Dixon. Read more...
West Sussex Trading Standards have prosecuted a Worthing man caught illegally downloading and selling copied DVDs of unreleased films. Read more...
Swindon Borough Council has shut down a local business – which claimed to supply around 1,000 samosas a day to shops and other businesses – because it posed an immediate threat to public health.
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A Carlisle businesswoman whose young son was involved in a local road traffic accident has spearheaded a new approach to child pedestrian safety, which is being trialled in the Carlisle area. Read more...
A Harley Street dentist has been removed from the General Dental Council’s (GDC) list of registered professionals, following allegations of serious misconduct and poor performance. Read more...
A new campaign organised by Leeds City Council encourages people across Leeds to get comfortable talking about domestic violence and abuse, in order to help more victims and their families seek the support they need. Read more...
Medway Trading Standards says that nearly 90% of shops in Medway selling e-cigarettes are breaking the law by selling nicotine products to children. Read more...
A new survey for mental health campaign Time to Change has found that more than half of all parents have never spoken to their children about mental health issues. Read more...
The General Medical Council (GMC) has called on the European Commission and UK government to act over patient safety concerns about a proposed new “passport to practise” for medical staff. Read more...
Cumbria County Council Trading Standards and Cumbria Police have joined forces to crack down on so-called legal highs or novel psychoactive substances being supplied in Cumbria. Read more...
Reigate and Banstead Council is cracking down on social housing tenancy fraudsters, who prevent families in real housing need from moving into permanent homes – and cost the taxpayer thousands of pounds each year. Read more...
The General Dental Council (GDC) is to be given new powers to streamline investigations into dental complaints. Read more...