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1. • PRS for Music Reduces Tariff for Small Businesses

   • 09/03/2009
   • Music can now be played in workplaces with four or fewer staff for less than £1 a week.

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2. • ACS Unveils Results of the CRS Vote

   • 06/03/2009
   • ACS concluded another successful Convenience Retailing Show with an announcement of the result of the on-stand vote. Throughout the three days ACS were asking retailers to have their say on the things Government could do to support the retail sector.

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3. • ACS Backs Planning Simplification

   • 05/03/2009
   • ACS welcomes Government intention to simplify the planning system for small commercial changes. The Killian-Pretty Review assessed the current UK planning system and suggested ways of streamlining it.

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4. • Tesco Appeal Victory Must Not Derail Town Centre Policy

   • 04/03/2009
   • Today's Competition Appeal Tribunal's ruling against a competition test for new retail development will slow down the Government's plans to implement an effective town centre first planning policy, according to ACS.

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5. • ACS Calls for Rethink on Batteries Directive

   • 03/03/2009
   • ACS has written to the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) this week in response to its consultation on the implementation of the EU's Batteries Directive in the UK.

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6. • COMMUNITY HEROES AWARD - ONLY NINE DAYS LEFT TO ENTER

   • 03/03/2009
   • Now in its fourth year, the award recognises retailers who put significant energy, commitment and effort into working for the benefit of their local community.

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7. • Get your voice heard......with the Retailer Inner Cirkle Research Group

   • 03/03/2009
   • Be part of a leading retailer research group and help some of our Premier Club members understand what you think of trade communications and the various campaigns that they run.

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8. • ACS Hits Out at Draconian Scottish Alcohol Plans

   • 02/03/2009
   • ACS has branded the alcohol proposals of the Scottish Government as draconian and discriminatory.

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9. • Scotland Bans Tobacco Displays

   • 27/02/2009
   • Cigarette vending machines and tobacco displays in shops are set to be consigned to history in Scotland as part of radical measures designed to reduce child smoking.

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10. • ACS Retailer Makes Case for Action on Retail Crime to MPs

    • 26/02/2009
    • ACS made the case for a stronger approach to tackling retail crime before an important Conservative Policy Commission.

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11. • ACS Welcomes New Zealand's Reversal of Tobacco Display Ban

    • 25/02/2009
    • ACS has welcomed New Zealand Prime Minister John Key's decision not to go ahead with a tobacco display ban and is calling on the UK Government to urgently follow suit.

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12. • ACS at the Convenience Retailing Show 2009

    • 24/02/2009
    • This year at CRS, 1st - 3rd March 2009, NEC, Birmingham, we are running an advice centre, providing free advice to retailers on all the major issues they face in day-to-day business.

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13. • Grayling Calls for a Kids' Curfew to Protect our streets

    • 23/02/2009
    • Chris Grayling will today outline plans to allow the police to ground young people caught causing trouble in their communities.

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14. • New Scheme Launched to Help People on Sick Leave Back to Work

    • 20/02/2009
    • People on sick leave will be helped back into work more quickly under a pilot scheme kick-started by Care Services Minister Phil Hope and Work and Pensions Minister Lord McKenzie.

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15. • Department of Health Launch New Smokefree Campaign

    • 19/02/2009
    • A hard-hitting new Smokefree campaign - 'Worried' - launches today. The ads, aimed at parents who smoke, communicate an uncomfortable message to viewers - that teenage children worry about their parents' future due to the harmful health effects of smoking

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