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Reading Magistrates Court: Nine in court over Kintbury solar panel scam

Reading Magistrates Court: Nine in court over Kintbury solar panel ‘scam’ Prosecutor claims villagers targetted in £17m fraud scheme John Garvey Villagers in Kintbury were allegedly targetted in a £17m solar panels scam. The prosecution alleges the defendants – traders from ESE Group Ltd and ESE Services Ltd, based in Sprint Way, Liverpool – used “harassment, coercion or undue influence” to sell solar panel equipment and bogus services. On Friday, nine men appeared for a preliminary hearing at Reading Magistrates’ Court following an investigation involving West Berkshire Council trading standards officers. Among them was 44-year-old company director Gary Fredson, who faces 12 charges of knowingly or recklessly engaging in a commercial practice.

Tesco Bracknell: Who gets the £536,000 supermarket was fined?

Tesco Warfield, on County Lane Tesco WAS ordered to pay a whopping £536,000 fine last week after health and safety failures at their Bracknell North superstore resulted in a child being electrocuted. The 10-year-old boy suffered from a small burn and pain down his right leg and chest after coming into contact with an exposed electrical supply when reaching for an ice lolly at the Warfield store’s freezer unit in July 2017. Following an investigation from the Public Protection Partnership the trading standards service which represents Bracknell Forest it became clear the freezer’s rail was known to be loose and had only been addressed with “temporary fixes” of glue or tape some months prior to the accident.

Tesco Warfield: Statement issued after boy electrocuted at store

File photo dated 26/08/16 of a Tesco sign. Tesco has said it is creating 16,000 new permanent jobs to help it react to exceptional growth in its online business. PA Photo. Issue date: Monday August 24, 2020. It said the recruitment drive will ‘THIS should not have happened’ that’s the message from Tesco bosses after a boy was electrocuted at their Bracknell North store in 2017. The supermarket firm was fined a whopping £536,000 after pleading guilty to two health and safety offences following an investigation by the Public Protection Partnership. The incident occured in July 2017 when a 10-year-old boy reached into a freezer to get an ice lolly but was left burnt and with pain down his right leg and chest having been electrocuted by an exposed electrical supply.

Tesco Warfield: Supermarket fined after boy electrocuted

He suffered a small minor burn, pain down his right leg, chest pain and was shaken. This came after staff failed to fix an issue with the electrical supply to the glass heating element under the handrail at the front of the freezer. The Public Protection Partnership, the investigating body, said the supply had become damaged and exposed, leaving a severed live wire sticking out under the rub rail. Subsequent reviews of records showed the freezer’s rail was known to be loose and had temporary fixes of glue or tape some months prior to the accident. Cllr John Harrison, Public Protection boss at Bracknell Forest Council, said: “This investigation which followed an incident where a child was electrocuted in the store revealed significant breaches of health and safety legislation and this is clearly reflected in the sentencing.

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