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Kent Trading Standards warn on Folkestone "charity" bags

Kent Trading Standards has received a report of a business dropping off plastic bags apparently for a Lithuanian charity which refers to supporting causes against breast cancer. Kent residents are being asked to fill the bags with their unwanted goods and the bags to be left out for collection. Currently these bags have been dropped off in the East Folkestone area.

27 Oct 2011
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Vince Cable opposes abolition of unfair dismissal laws

Plans promoted by David Cameron's chief strategist, Steve Hilton, to abolish unfair dismissal laws have been rejected by the business secretary, Vince Cable, as "unnecessary, based on no evidence and unlikely to improve labour market flexibility".

27 Oct 2011
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Tory heads should roll over this financial mess

For the second time, Brentwood Council has failed to get its accounts signed off by the Auditor and Lib Dem Leader Cllr David Kendall has branded the report as damning and deeply embarrassing to the Conservative administration. He is calling for a senior member of the administration to finally take responsibility and resign.

26 Oct 2011
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