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    • Crackdown on Firework Lawbreakers

    • 24/10/2008
    • In the run up to Bonfire Night the Government is targeting the small minority of irresponsible businesses who flout the law by selling fireworks to under 18s.
     
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    • Brown Tells Retailers to Cut Cost of Petrol

    • 17/10/2008
    • Gordon Brown called on petrol retailers yesterday to pass on recent falls in the price of oil to consumers by cutting the cost at the pump to about £1 a litre.
     
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    • Blears Invites Ideas to Improve Local Communities

    • 15/10/2008
    • Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today called on councils to work closely with their residents to unearth new and innovative ideas to improve their local area and make places in which people want to live, work and raise a family.
     

    • ACS Welcomes Increased Finance to Small Businesses

    • 14/10/2008
    • The three banks, Lloyds TSB, HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland, that have received money from the Government have been told by the Chancellor to adopt a strong focus on making lending available to small businesses.
     

    • ACS Rejects Code of Practice for Alcohol Retailers

    • 13/10/2008
    • ACS has rejected calls for a code of practice for alcohol retailers. Instead, ACS has called for guidance to be issued to local authorities and enforcement agencies to help them to use the full range of powers already available to them.
     
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    • Big Changes for Tax Returns this Month

    • 08/10/2008
    • This month sees the biggest change to the Self Assessment tax system since its introduction more than a decade ago - a new 31 October deadline for paper returns.
     
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    • Sustainable Communities Act Letter to Councils.

    • 06/10/2008
    • A letter signed by 55 national organisations including ACS will be sent to all English local authority leaders, deputy leaders and chief executives urging them to 'opt in' to the Sustainable Communities Act process