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LONDON (Reuters) - A Lebanese lawyers’ association has asked British authorities to halt the voluntary liquidation of a UK-registered company over possible links to last year’s explosion at Beirut port, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from the site of an explosion in Beirut s port area, Lebanon August 4, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
In the Jan. 25 letter to British lawmaker Margaret Hodge, the Beirut Bar Association (BBA) said it had asked the UK corporate registry, Companies House, to prevent the company, Savaro Ltd., which it described as an “indicted entity”, from being wound up in order to allow investigations into its possible role in the blast to continue.
26 January 2021
Industry experts have issued a series of dire warning about the likely impact of mooted plans to quarantine arrivals in hotels for up to ten days.
Some travellers coming to England will have to quarantine in hotels, amid concerns about new Covid variants, the government is expected to announce.
Prime minister, Boris Johnson, is expected to decide after discussing the proposals with senior ministers later.
Most foreign nationals from high-risk countries are already denied UK entry so the new rules will mainly affect returning UK citizens and residents.
Quarantine rules are set by each of the UK nations but tend to be similar.
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Off the Devon coast, the catches this month have been good, but their value has halved.
The introduction of catch certificates and customs declarations has led to delays at the border. Sick of waiting, European buyers have been rejecting the fish.
The result for crews is that three weeks into January they’re making hundreds of pounds less every day they go sea. It’s left many in this staunchly pro-Brexit sector questioning their vote.
“I think, if we knew this was going to happen, I honestly think things might have been different, people would have voted differently, fishermen would’ve looked at things in a different light,” says fisherman Simon Driver.