Only around £197k of the government’s £300m business rates relief fund has actually been allocated, despite businesses being hit with higher rates over four months ago. Go to Source Author: read more
Diane Abbott MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, speaking in response to comments from the independent anti-slavery commissioner, said:
“The criticisms of the National Crime Agency’s failure to tackle slavery are very serious.
“The claim that modern slavery offences are just lying dormant on the NCA database because these crimes are not taken seriously is deeply troubling. The NCA is accountable for its performance to the Home Secretary, so Amber Rudd has serious questions to answer.”
read moreEnvironment Agency officers have conducted an illegal waste export operation at the port of Harwich. read more
Rosy Hall is an ESRC-funded PhD student from Oxford University working with the BL’s Spoken English collections. She writes: One of the joys of cataloguing the Evolving English WordBank is discovering all the weird and wonderful phrases donated to the British Library by speakers from around the world. Researching their… read more
Last year I raised the condition of the former industrial units on the east side of Hawkhill Court, Mid Wynd where there was dumping of rubbish, weeds and graffiti. At that time the site agents for the privately owned units kindly arra… read more