“Tesco has won an appeal against a proposal from competition watchdogs which could have severely restricted the number of new stores it can open.”
The Guardian, 4th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Children’s services at a county council have been criticised after it was revealed that a 12-year-old boy did not receive schooling for almost two years.”
BBC News, 4th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Somerset man has been fined £200 after posting a video on the YouTube website of cannabis he was growing.”
BBC News, 4th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman has been jailed for life for murdering her husband after she was faced with losing their £170,000 family home during a marriage break-up.”
BBC News, 4th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Eight newspapers and Sky News have apologised and paid substantial libel damages to a woman over stories alleging that her house had been trashed by gatecrashers after her daughter publicised her 16th birthday party on Facebook.”
The Guardian, 4th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A ‘self appointed vigilante’ has been jailed for 10 years for killing a former policeman who had been charged with possessing child pornography.”
BBC News, 3rd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who tortured and raped an 85-year-old woman after breaking into her home has been jailed for life.”
BBC News, 3rd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government’s controversial system of using ‘control orders’ to restrict the movements of suspected terrorists has been renewed for another year.”
BBC News, 3rd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who killed a woman while wearing a ‘Phantom of the Opera’ mask has been sent to a mental hospital indefinitely.”
BBC News, 3rd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Conservative frontbencher Caroline Spelman last night agreed to repay £9,600 after parliamentary anti-sleaze watchdogs found she broke Commons rules by paying taxpayers’ money to her children’s nanny.”
The Independent, 4th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Environment Agency is to be given powers to seize planes from airlines which break the rules of a new scheme to limit flights’ carbon emissions. The transport secretary, Geoff Hoon, and the climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, will today announce the government agency’s new role, which goes far wider than its regulation of other UK industries.”
The Guardian, 4th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Fifteen people, including nine retired and three serving police officers, are to be charged with perverting the course of justice and perjury in connection with the murder of a young woman more than 20 years ago.”
The Times, 4th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A schizophrenic killer who murdered four people in three days was failed repeatedly by an ineffective NHS, an inquiry has found. The treatment of Daniel Gonzales was full of missed opportunities that could have prevented him stabbing three pensioners and another man to death.”
The Times, 4th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A Hampshire winemaker has failed in a High Court claim that the Food Standards Agency was ‘heavy-handed’ in banning its new low-alcohol ‘wine’.”
BBC News, 2nd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman with a history of mental illness has been given a six-month conditional discharge after admitting strangling two dogs.”
BBC News, 2nd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Companies that withhold all payment for goods or services in order to strengthen their hand in negotiations over disputed amounts will have to pay punitive interest on that money, the Court of Appeal has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 2nd March 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“There should be no new exemption from copyright law for users’ adaptations of copyright-protected content, the UK Government has said. To create such an exemption for user-generated content would ignore the rights of content creators, it said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 2nd March 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) can assess the fairness of bank charges for unauthorised overdrafts, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. Seven banks and one building society have vowed to appeal the ruling to the House of Lords.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th February 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“A court has heard how a man crashed into a lamp post while driving at 80mph in a 30mph zone after drinking 12 pints and rowing with his girlfriend.”
BBC News, 2nd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A company director has been fined more than £7,000 at Nottingham Crown Court for health and safety breaches after an apprentice died at his workshop.”
BBC News, 2nd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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