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Bosses of companies which plague people with unsolicited nuisance calls could be fined as much as £500,000 under new proposals to make them personally liable if their firm breaks the law.

The UK data protection watchdog revealed last week it had recovered 54% of the £17.8m in fines issued for nuisance calls since 2010, as companies go into liquidation to avoid big penalties.

The number of 10 & 11-year-old children classed as severely obese in the final year of primary school is nearly double that of those in reception, new analysis by the LGA reveals.

The LGA, which represents 370 councils in England & Wales, is warning that severe child obesity rates, which have been published for the first time, are contributing to a multi-£bn ill-health time bomb.  Figures show that more than 22,000 children aged 10 and 11 in Year 6 are classed as severely obese.

Revealed: The worst explanations for not appointing women to FTSE company boards.

The explanations, which come from a range of FTSE 350 Chairs & CEOs, were heard by the team behind the government-backed Hampton-Alexander Review.

Despite a major drop in the number of top companies with all-male boards, many are still refusing to move with the times - and some of the worst explanations firms have made for not having women among their top employees have been revealed.  This despite evidence showing that bridging the gender pay gap could add £150bn to the UK economy by 2025.

Too often during the last year, there have been ‘statements made by civil servants (often nameless) which claim that Brexit will be an ‘expensive catastrophe’.

While the allegedly Remaining-biased media such as the BBC are quick to promote these views as ‘irrefutable facts’, they appear less willing give the same prominence to the follow-up analysis of these claims by academics, who often have a more detailed knowledge of the subject manner. 

This is why we encourage readers to click through to websites such as ‘Briefings for Brexit’ for a more balanced examination of such recent claims as that of the Head of HMRC that ‘leaving the EU Customs Union would cost UK firms as much as £20bn a year’.