Industry News

08 Jan 2020

Martyn's Law - Manchester City Council

At a meeting on Wednesday 15th January, Manchester City Council’s Executive will be asked to take steps to adopt ‘Martyn’s law’, making them the first Council in the Country to do so. On 22nd  May 2017, 22 people trag...

07 Jan 2020

Criminal Justice Statistics (England and Wales) – penalty notices

Towards the end of last year, the Ministry of Justice published its Criminal Justice Statistics for England and Wales, part of which show the number of penalty notices issued for certain offences. The relevant overview tables (which can be found ...

07 Jan 2020

National Living Wage - April 2020 increases

On New Year’s Eve the government announced increases to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) rates  to take effect from April 2020.  The new rates have been recommended by the Low Pay Commission, and have ...

23 Dec 2019

Best Bar None - Announce Shortlist

On Friday Best Bar None (BBN) announced their 2019 short list for their National Awards. . The competition will now go into its final stage of judging, ahead of the awards ceremony held at the House of Lords on Tuesday 4th February 2020. Sheffiel...

11 Dec 2019

Advertising Standards Authority and KFC…

The ASA has recently upheld a complaint about a poster advertisement and a press advertisement for KFC,’ on the basis that the use of the word ‘cluck’ was too close to a commonly used profanity. The ‘offending’ poste...

10 Dec 2019

Major change if you have TV’s In Bedroom Accommodation

The Motion Picture Licensing Company (MPLC) is a royalty collection society which represents the majority of the big film companies and some television companies/producers and recovers royalty fees for broadcast of productions by its members in a ...