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Event: Expert Forum: Market Abuse 2021 Delivered: 25 February 2021 Highlights Surveillance and investigation work has reduced trading by certain actors whose trading prompted high numbers of suspicious transaction and order reports. Increase in the FCA’s proactive market monitoring and the introduction of some new initiatives, notably a new approach to short selling reporting. Introduction of a new market cleanliness measure, the Potentially Anomalous Trading Ratio. Enforcement action taken i...

By Letters to the Editor Send us your views on the weeks news Stock image of a cat and a dog SO WE have a visitor usually during the holidays – my daughter’s Cockapoo called Baxter – the rest of the family come too but it is Baxter who is of course the star of the show. We have not seen him for a very long time thanks to Covid – but he is absolutely part of the family and we would be gutted to lose him....

Warning: This article contains graphic images The demand for dogs is higher than ever before as lockdown restrictions remain in place and more people continue to work from home. But such high demand has seen prices soar with the cost of puppies more than doubling over the last year.  Dog theft has also become a real concern for owners across the country, with missing pets website Dogs Lost reporting a 170% increase in the number of dogs being stolen across the UK since the start of the pandem...

An estimated 250% recent rise in "dognapping" is "absolutely shocking", the home secretary says.

 shares It turns out Palestine Action’s co-founder has been arrested. For blackmail! Palestine Action co-founder arrested for blackmail two days after successful Elbit factory shutdown -Richard Barnard was arrested for blackmail at approximately 15:00 on Wednesday and taken to Fresh Wharf Custody Base -Barnard and co-founder Huda Ammori had their house raided and passports seized -Barnard’s arrest comes a day after eight activists from Palestine Action and Extinction Rebellion North were r...

Thieves in Suffolk are posing as RSPCA officers in order to snatch dogs, the charity has warned. The animal welfare charity has been made aware of a white van with RSPCA signs on it in Suffolk, stopping dog owners to ask if their pets were stolen. The RSPCA has now stressed that genuine officers will always be wearing uniforms bearing the charitys logo, and will always carry identification. If someone claiming to be an RSPCA officer is in contact with you or visits your home, and you are unsure...

Retired police officer Mike Jasper was walking through his local park with his spaniel cross, Ted, one morning last month when two men wearing facemasks approached him and started to ask questions about his beloved four-year-old pet. Feeling uncomfortable, 66-year-old Mike started to walk away, only to find himself pushed to the ground while one of the men forced the lead from his hand and made off with Ted.  Mike has not seen him since. The theft — out of the blue, in broad daylight, and in...

Anthony Lamont pleaded guilty at Stevenage Magistrates Court last week. - Credit: Archant A Letchworth man has pleaded guilty to attacking two people in Royston.  Anthony Lamont, of Redhoods Way West, appeared at Stevenage Magistrates Court by live link on Wednesday last week.  The 40-year-old pleaded guilty to assaulting a man and a woman by beating in Royston on October 6 last year. He also admitted a charge of dishonestly attempting to make off without paying £64.50 for food and dr...

Smuggled puppies at start of lockdown (Credit: Beth Walsh Photography) Dogs Trust MARCH 2020 The demand for puppies this year has been rife with overloaded rescue centres, inflated prices, greedy breeders and in the worst case, an increase in pet thefts. Bracknell has been no stranger to this, with dog theft cases being reported by walkers in the past few months. In October, a dog walker warned residents to be vigilant with their pets after spotting suspicious-looking men thought to be do...

ICHAEL JACKSON had Bubbles, a chimpanzee. Justin Bieber had OG Mally, a capuchin, until it was seized by German customs officials and put in a zoo. Rihanna has been photographed bottle-feeding a baby monkey on holiday. The trio of stars would find few fans in the British government, which on December 12th proposed new restrictions on keeping primates as pets. Somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 marmosets, lemurs, tamarins and other little species are kept in private ownership in Britain, the gov...