Trading Standards are concerned that some locally advertised 'home working schemes' are fronts for scams or illegal money lending (also known as 'loan sharking').
The Coalition Government has unveiled further details of the Pupil Premium - a key Liberal Democrat policy which will ensure...
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The Liberal Democrats have been in government for only eight months, but we have already implemented many of our manifesto policies.
Norwich South MP Simon Wright has welcomed a pledge made by the pubs minister Bob Neill to review rules that prevent some closed community pubs from reopening as pubs. A public consultation will review restrictive covenants, which are used in the sale of a building to restrict the use by new owners. Large pub companies have used covenants to limit competition, which has resulted in some pubs being closed with no hope of re-opening. Mr Wright said: "Pubs play a vital part in building strong communities, and New Year's Eve will have demonstrated that in pubs across Norfolk. But we're losing pubs at a dreadful rate, and that damages our communities. "The practice of some pub companies in restricting the use of pubs after sale through covenants is scandalous. It deprives communities of assets and denies the opportunity to prospective alternative landlords to develop a thriving business. The motivation of using restrictive covenants by large pub companies is to avoid competition, and often results in pubs bei
