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Gordon Brown and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith Announce New Plans for Community Policing
- 26/02/2008
- By April, Labour will have delivered a neighbourhood policing team of police officers and police community support officers in every community in England and Wales.
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Lords Debate - Retail Development Bill
- 25/02/2008
- Lord Cotter (Lib Dem) introduced the Retail Development Bill into the House of Lords for its second reading.
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Child Obesity Figures Published
- 22/02/2008
- Nearly a quarter of children aged between four and five are obese or overweight, according to new government figures. According to statistics released by the Department of Health, almost a third of 10 and 11-year-olds are overweight.
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ACS Open to Discussions with Government on Alcohol Price
- 21/02/2008
- ACS has commented on todays statements by the British Medical Association, Tesco and Asda regarding alcohol retailing and pricing.
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Hutton Sounds Flexible Working Warning
- 20/02/2008
- The business secretary has warned that any move to extend the right to ask for flexible working could alienate employers.
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Time to take on the supermarkets say Liberal Democrats
- 19/02/2008
- Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg has called for fair trade for British farmers and an end to the 'bully-boy tactics' of supermarket chains.
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Parents must take responsibility for underage drinking says ACPO
- 18/02/2008
- The president of the Association of Chief Police Officers has insisted that parents must take responsibility for their children's behaviour and make sure they do not have access to alcohol.
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Competition Commission Remedies
- 15/02/2008
- The latest working paper on remedies is expected at 4.30pm today (Friday 15th Feb) from the Competition Commission and there is much speculation in the Press around what it will contain.
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Competition Commissions Timid Remedies Are No Solution
- 15/02/2008
- ACS the campaigning voice of over 33,000 local shops has reacted to the Competition Commissions Provisional Decision on Remedies.
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Last Chance to Buy Early Bird Tickets for Summit 08
- 14/02/2008
- Discounted Early Bird tickets for Summit 08 - tomorrow (Friday 15th February) is your last chance to purchase these tickets.
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ACS Backs Conservatives on Underage Drinking
- 13/02/2008
- ACS has backed Conservative Party calls for Government and Police to make more effective use of their powers to tackle underage alcohol drinkers.
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ACS Defends Mosquito Devices
- 12/02/2008
- ACS the voice of 33,000 local shops has reacted to defend the use of mosquito devices in light of a campaign led by the Children's Commissioners to prevent shops and other establishments from using them.
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Defra Sets New Recycling Targets For Packaging
- 11/02/2008
- New packaging waste recycling targets will deliver greater carbon benefits Defra has confirmed its intention that packaging waste recovery and recycling targets for Great Britain will increase from 2008 onwards.
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Community Heroes 2008 - Still Time to Enter!
- 08/02/2008
- ACS are still looking for entries for the Community Heroes Award 2008.
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Ethical Trading Top, Climate Change Bottom in Consumers' Priorities
- 07/02/2008
- Ethical trading is consumers' number one issue, while climate change only interests a tiny fraction of shoppers, according to a new poll looking at the ethics of food shopping conducted by The Co-Operative Group.
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