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1. • Minimum Wage Cheats to be Named and Shamed

   • 30/09/2010
   • Employers who deliberately flout minimum wage laws will be publicly named under a new scheme announced by Employment Relations Minister Edward Davey today.

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2. • Local Shops Welcome Curb on Town Hall Newspapers

   • 29/09/2010
   • Local shops have welcomed proposals to restrict Councils ability to publish free ‘news sheets’ and seek to end the unfair competition that these provide to important local and regional commercial newspapers.

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3. • Time is Running Out to Claim Small Business Rate Relief

   • 28/09/2010
   • The deadline for claiming Small Business Rate Relief from between 1 April 2007 and April 2010 is 30th September. Retailers with rateable values under £18,000 are eligible for either the small business multiplier or a percentage reduction in their rates.

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4. • Ipswich Retailer Warns Low Pay Commission of Minimum Wage Impact

   • 24/09/2010
   • Members of the Low Pay Commission met with Premier retailer Tom West this week to discuss the impact of the National Minimum Wage on his business.

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5. • Eastbourne MP Commends Spar Store on Underage Sales Measures

   • 23/09/2010
   • Stephen Lloyd MP visited a Spar Store on Terminus Road in Eastbourne to discuss the challenges local shops face and their commitment to community engagement.

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6. • Cable Right to End Post Office Closures but Must Modernise the Network

   • 22/09/2010
   • Shop owners have welcomed the Business Secretary’s commitment that there will be no further post office closure programme, but have urged that the Government will continue to press for modernisation and reform of the network.

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7. • News International Margin Reduction Pressures Community Retailers

   • 22/09/2010
   • ANR has responded with regret to the decision by News International to reduce retailers margins.

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8. • Local Shops Call for Competitive Banking Charges and Branch Support

   • 21/09/2010
   • Local shops? supply of credit finance has been stifled by banks? charging unsustainable rates for overdraft facilities, cash deposits, card transactions and capital investment loans.

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9. • Police Must Engage with Local Businesses As Well As Local People

   • 21/09/2010
   • ACS has called on Government to ensure that businesses have a voice in the policing structure that emerges from the Home Office's planned reforms.

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10. • Ninth British Food Fortnight Launches Across the UK on September 18

    • 17/09/2010
    • The ninth British Food Fortnight starts this weekend. Running from 18th September to 3rd October, the next two weeks sees the biggest ever promotion of British food on our shores.

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11. • Time to Train Not Right for Local Shops

    • 16/09/2010
    • The ‘Time to Train’ rules are an unnecessarily burden on retailers and will not deliver greater training opportunities for those working in local shops argue ACS.

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12. • nef report condemns Clone Towns

    • 15/09/2010
    • nef (new economics foundation) has published their latest report on Clone Towns, which has found that 41 per cent of UK towns are clone towns and a further 23 per cent are on the verge of becoming clone towns. Only 36 per cent of the high streets surveyed

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13. • ACS Unveils Inspiring Autumn Forum Programme

    • 14/09/2010
    • Convenience store retailers are being encouraged to attend three unmissable events in the lead up to the New Year designed specifically to save money, tackle crime and prevent under-age sales.

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14. • ACS Calls on Retailers to Stop The Tobacco Display Ban

    • 14/09/2010
    • ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) has today launched a nationwide retailer campaign to Stop the Tobacco Display Ban.

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15. • Animal By-Product Exemption Could Save Sector £36 Million

    • 13/09/2010
    • Local shops are urging Government to take the opportunity to save the sector over £36million in costs by exempting businesses from unnecessary EU meat waste rules.

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