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05 Sep 2016

New £5 note goes live 13 September 2016

As previously reported – see 'New £5 Note Announced' - a new polymer £5 note will start to be issued on 13 September 2016. A dedicated Bank of England website provides further detail: http://www.thenewfiver.co.uk/ NB - In...

05 Sep 2016

House of Lords - Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - update

Further to our previous news on this Committee ('HofL Licensing Committee - call for evidence issued'), please note that: The deadline for submission of written evidence has now expired – we have already filed a submission of evidence on th...

01 Sep 2016

Gambling - Proposals for Commission fees from April 2017 - final reminder

As previously reported in our article 'Gambling - Proposals for changes to Commission Fees', the Gambling Commission and Department of Culture Media and Sport have previously published a joint consultation on proposed changes to Gambling Fees with...

01 Sep 2016

TV licensing - and the BBC iPlayer - important changes in force today

The law changed today!  All viewers who use the iPlayer to watch any BBC programmes must now be covered by a TV licence after new rules which have just come into force. Until now, iPlayer users only needed a licence if they were using the s...

30 Aug 2016

HMG 'invests £40 million and cuts red tape to boost tourism across England'

Last Friday, the Government announced some initiatives it indicated were designed to bolster the tourist trade in England. According to the press release: Towns and cities from across England will benefit from a £40 million fund to deliver...

25 Aug 2016

Scotland - 'Dundee overprovision policy failed to follow the law'

We have previously reported on the controversial overprovision policy adopted by the Dundee Board which determined that the whole Board area was over-provided save for the waterfront area – see our article 'Scotland - Dundee: Overprovis...