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Product Safety Report for Light-up Sword presenting a serious chemical risk.
This guidance summarises the requirements, controls and sanctions that Border Force applies to firearms and offensive weapons when they are imported into the UK.
Product Safety Report for Flashing Sword presenting a serious risk of choking.
View the partial surrender issued for Grange Farm Poultry Unit, Lincoln under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wright on 26 March 2024.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak makes a speech on defence.
Wilko went into administration on 10 August 2023. This page provides information on how to claim redundancy or register as a creditor.
Explains the law behind carrying an article with a blade or point or an offensive weapon in a public place.
You need a licence in Scotland if you want to deal in knives, swords or weapons with blades or sharp points
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Judge Tayler on 12 April 2024.
British Army soldiers are a step closer to getting their hands on one of Europe’s most lethal tanks – the Challenger 3 - the Defence Secretary has announced.
The graves of five soldiers of The York and Lancaster Regiment, most of whom went missing in France in the weeks before the end of World War One, have now been marked more than a century after their deaths.
Detention services order 10/2012 about removing hidden blades from detainees.
The Scientific Advisory Committee on the medical implications of less-lethal weapons (SACMILL) provides independent advice to UK government departments and organisations on the biophysical, biomechanical, pathological and clinical aspects of less-lethal weapon systems. SACMILL is an advisory non-departmental public body,...
Product Recall for MSR®, Trail Lite™ and Reactor® Camping Cooking Pots presenting a risk of burns.
Export controls applying to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) related activities - transfer of technology and provision of technical support
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