Watchdog to wash hands
GREEN campaigners in Huddersfield have called for a massive road scheme to be put on hold.
They want Kirklees Council to take a fresh look at plans to widen the A629 Halifax Road at Edgerton - and to withdraw the proposed felling of scores of mature trees. Some of those at risk are believed to be more than a century old. The council has refused to budge.
The £12.9m project, unveiled in 2018, was immediately controversial, prompting objections from people living along the road who face losing sections of their gardens as part of the widening process. Residents said widening the road to improve journey times by two minutes was ‘crazy.’
The council approved plans to compulsorily purchase land around Edgerton Road and Blacker
THE competition watchdog has dropped its final investigation into whether retailers overcharged desperate customers for hand sanitiser as Covid-19 started to spread in the UK.
After warning retailers of serious consequences if they jacked up prices earlier in the year, the watchdog said it was not worth its time to continue a months-long probe into a company which might have over-priced hand sanitiser.
It was the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) last remaining investigation into unfair prices of hand sanitiser, after it closed three others in July.
It said that the final probe had found that an unnamed company is not currently charging unfair prices.
Outrageous examples prompted the CMA to establish a ‘task force’ to look into the issues.