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1. • Book Now for the 2011 ACS Forecourt Seminar

   • 24/06/2011
   • With an average of 1.1 miles between petrol forecourts, with increasingly aggressive multiple development in this sector, and with fuel margins declining over the past decade, only the best forecourt retailers are going to survive into the future.

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2. • Low Pay Commission Conducts Visit with Southampton Retailer

   • 23/06/2011
   • The Low Pay Commission has heard from a Southampton retailer about the impact of the National Minimum Wage, a visit that will shape the Commission’s recommendations to Government in February.

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3. • ACS Welcomes Improvements in Sentencing

   • 22/06/2011
   • ACS has welcomed measures set out in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill as introduced to Parliament yesterday.

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4. • Burton MP Commends Local Retailer on Outstanding Service to Community

   • 21/06/2011
   • Burton retailer Shaid Hussain has won an industry award for outstanding service to the community through his newsagent, “Good News”.

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5. • Government Must Act to Deliver on High Street Diversity Pledge

   • 20/06/2011
   • Local shops today warn that the Coalition is failing to deliver on a pledge to promote diversity on British high streets.

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6. • ANR Managing Director Moves on in ACS Re-Organisation

   • 20/06/2011
   • ACS has announced a re-organisation of its work on newspaper and magazine policy issues under its news arm, the Association of News Retailing (ANR).

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7. • Deadline Approaching for Responses to Unreported Crime Survey

   • 17/06/2011
   • ACS has called on independent retailers to share their experiences of crime as part of an evidence gathering exercise for the National Retail Crime Steering Group.

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8. • Government to Focus on Driving Sustainable Development

   • 16/06/2011
   • Planning Minister Greg Clark has published a major change to planning policy that will get development back on track and ensure protection for the environment.

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9. • New Competition Authority Must be a Proactive Consumer Champion

   • 14/06/2011
   • As Government prepares to merge the Office of Fair Trading and Competition Commission, they must remove the limits currently placed on competition authorities and allow them to take more radical decisive action in the ‘public interest’.

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10. • Kingsmill Team Up with Wallace and Gromit for New Invention Offer

    • 10/06/2011
    • Kingsmill has teamed up once again with Wallace & Gromit creators, Aardman, to launch a brand new on pack promotion.

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11. • Influential Report Calls for New Approach to Out of Court Penalties

    • 09/06/2011
    • Out of Court Penalties such as cautions, on the spot fines and community payback initiatives are inconsistently and often inappropriately applied says Her Majesty’s Inspector of constabulary in a report out today (9th June).

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12. • Local Shops Welcome Focus on Business Certainty in Minimum Wage Review

    • 09/06/2011
    • The next round of consultation on the minimum wage, which will determine the recommended rate for 2013 will also have to consider ways to deliver greater certainty for business, Ministers have said.

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13. • ACS Welcomes Lords Call for Changes to the Localism Bill

    • 08/06/2011
    • Peers in the House of Lords have supported calls from ACS to put retail diversity and sustainable development on the face of the Localism Bill.

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14. • Lords Must Act Now to Tesco Proof Localism Bill

    • 07/06/2011
    • ACS has called on Peers to stand up for high streets during the debate of the Localism Bill in the House of Lords today.

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15. • ANR Welcomes News and Magazine Recommendations in Bailey Report

    • 06/06/2011
    • ANR (the Association of News Retailing) has welcomed the recommendations of an independent review into the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood.

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