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Caribbean bar and restaurant in Reading staying open after licensing dispute
6+ hour, 58+ min ago (537+ words) Randolph Bancroft, the owner of Dolphin's Caribbean Restaurant and Bar at St Mary's Butts in Reading town centre. (Image: Newsquest / James Aldridge, LDRS) A Caribbean bar and kitchen in Reading will stay open following a licensing dispute after a woman…...
Store owner fined "28k for letting illegal Afghan worker run his shop
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (660+ words) The owner of a convenience store has been fined "28, 000 for letting an asylum seeker from Afghanistan run his shop for him. Reading Express is an off-licence store in Oxford Road, within walking distance of the town centre. Customers can buy…...
Reading Caribbean bar in trouble over hiring illegal worker
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (607+ words) A Caribbean restaurant and bar in Reading is in trouble with the council over allegedly hiring an illegal worker. Dolphin's Caribbean Restaurant & Bar has been open in the town centre since April last year. The venue in St Mary's Butts…...
Reading Chinese takeaway fined "80, 000 for employing illegal workers
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (275+ words) A Chinese takeaway in Reading has been fined "80, 000 for employing illegal workers. Home Office inspectors visited The Golden Dragon in Northumberland Avenue in Reading last summer after receiving intelligence. They were found to be employing illegal workers at the premises....
Home Office breaks silence after 'disorder' at asylum seeker hotel " what it says
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (168+ words) The Home Office has responded after a disturbance broke out at a hotel that is being used to house asylum seekers in Reading." 'Disorder' outside the former Ibis Styles hotel in Oxford Road was reported at around 6. 30pm on Wednesday, April…...
Can you backdate Child Benefit? Martin Lewis reveals the HMRC rule many parents miss
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (522+ words) Thousands of parents could be missing out on Child Benefit payments from HMRC - and many only realise after it may be too late. That's the warning from money saving expert Martin Lewis after a listener to his podcast asked this…...
Zara Mc Dermott joins campaigners urging education on violence against women
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (687+ words) TV presenter Zara Mc Dermott has called for primary school children to be educated on consent to prevent violence against women. She was among campaigners gathered outside Parliament on Tuesday to call for more investment in refuge services for domestic…...
West Berkshire businesses hit with fines for employing illegal migrants
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (242+ words) Two businesses in West Berkshire have been fined for employing illegal migrants. And one of them, a popular Newbury curry outlet, The Gun, has had its licence application to West Berkshire Council called in by the Home Office. "We have…...