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Cruise liner faces legal battle
30th December 2011

Solicitors acting on behalf of 134 holidaymakers have issued proceedings against cruise firm Fred Olsen Cruises alleging that they all fell ill with the norovirus whilst travelling on one of their boats. The claims concern trips taken aboard the line Read more...

Decision to change planning laws rejected
30th December 2011

The case concerned HMOs (houses in multiple occupation). Councils in Milton Keynes, Newcastle and Oxford had brought the judicial review case in respect of a decision by the present government to do away with planning permission for HMOs. The decisio Read more...

Manchester and Salford are named as the centre for counterfeit goods
30th December 2011

According to Trading Standards, Manchester and Salford have topped the list of places in the UK for fake goods. An open-air market in Salford was recently closed as it was discovered that more counterfeit items were being sold than legitimate produc Read more...

Chancellor: only “partial implementation” of banking reforms
29th December 2011

George Osborne revealed this week that recommendations arising out of the Vickers commission on banking reform would not all be put into effect by parliament. The report, published by Sir John Vickers’ Independent Commission on Banking (ICB), ha Read more...

Head of United Emirates Airlines fails to attend hearing over secret wife
29th December 2011

Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum, also a member of the Dubai ruling family, left a High Court Judge angered after he failed to show up at a hearing over the £1million maintenance claimed by his alleged ‘secret wife.’ Ms Nivin El-Gamal claims t Read more...