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Businesses in Boston have been visited by authorities in a clamp-down on illegal vehicle dismantlers and unlicensed scrap metal dealers.
The CMA has found that EMR must sell 5 of the sites it bought from MWR due to competition concerns that prices might worsen for suppliers and customers.
Max Newbery claimed all vehicles brought to his Barley Villas Yard site in Exeter were intended for sale and blamed child vandals for their poor condition.
Wayne Hillard claimed he was repairing vehicles, not stripping them, but made £1.3m at his Westonzoyland compound.
Employment Tribunal decision.
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First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Anyone convicted of any crime relating to metal theft would be barred from working legitimately in the scrap business.
All scrap metal dealers will have to hold licences as strict new regulations penalising rogue traders became law today.
Metal dealers will no longer be able to trade in cash and will face tougher sanctions for rogue trading.
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