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    • Hello,

      On 15/1/24 booked appointment with Big Motoring World (BMW) to view a mini on 17/1/24 at 8pm at their Enfield dealership.  

      Car was dirty and test drive was two circuits of roundabout on entry to the showroom.  Was p/x my car and rushed by sales exec and a manager into buying the mini and a 3yr warranty that night, sale all wrapped up by 10pm.  They strongly advised me taking warranty out on car that age (2017) and confirmed it was honoured at over 500 UK registered garages.

      The next day, 18/1/24 noticed amber engine warning light on dashboard , immediately phoned BMW aftercare team to ask for it to be investigated asap at nearest garage to me. After 15 mins on hold was told only their 5 service centres across the UK can deal with car issues with earliest date for inspection in March ! Said I’m not happy with that given what sales team advised or driving car. Told an amber warning light only advisory so to drive with caution and call back when light goes red.

      I’m not happy to do this, drive the car or with the after care experience (a sign of further stresses to come) so want a refund and to return the car asap.

      Please can you advise what I need to do today to get this done. 
       

      Many thanks 
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    • Housing Association property flooding. https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/438641-housing-association-property-flooding/&do=findComment&comment=5124299
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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
      We will be recommending that people do include this adverse judgement in their bundle so that when they go to county court the judge will see both sides and see the arguments against this adverse judgement.
      Also, we will be to demonstrate to the judge that we are fair-minded and that we don't mind bringing everything to the attention of the judge even if it is against our own interests.
      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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Campaigners are asking why a small pest control company in Sussex has been awarded a £108 million contract for PPE for the NHS. This was done in April and didn't go out to tender.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8394309/Small-family-run-pest-control-firm-won-108m-contract-procure-PPE-frontline-NHS-staff.html

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Does anyone *get* the air bridge scheme that ministers want? To me, it just looks like smoke and mirrors.

 

They want Brits to be able to go on holiday, presumably the focus groups have mentioned this. Has any of this bunch considered whether other countries will want an air bridge when the rate of cases and fatalities isn't looking terribly smart?

 

If I was in a European government that has a low number of cases, I'd be thinking very carefully about letting people in from certain countries. The US press were saying this morning that other countries aren't keen on people from Russia, Brazil and the US. It might not take much for us to be on the same list.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/23/uk-ministers-talks-create-air-bridges-european-countries-italy-spain-holidays

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I'll leave the R number discussion to you guys. TJ, it does make me think of Trump's genius solution the other day that if they don't test, they won't have as many cases.

 

This is an interesting comparison between the way the UK and Germany handled the epidemic. When the Paris area and eastern France had huge numbers of cases, Germany had sufficient beds available to take some patients.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/24/germany-coronavirus-britain-health-spending-test-trace

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This was forseeable. Beaches on the south coast are over-run.

 

Is this what happens when you come out of lockdown without a plan and without easily understood guidelines. Telling the public to just use their common sense means it's the public's fault when it goes wrong, rather than the government.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/25/major-incident-declared-as-people-flock-to-england-south-coast

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I think a lot of people saw Demonic Cummings and others blatently flout the rules and thought 'If they can do it so can I'.  Scientific types who did the wrong thing at least had the good grace to resign.

 

IMO the safety message has been lost because ministers and at least one SpAd didn't lead by example when they made the rules.

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Now HMG has stopped doing weekday briefings, Independent SAGE has decided to do its own weekly briefing on Covid-19. They're very worried about the way lockdown is being done and are talking about a further 30,000 deaths if things don't change.

 

They say this about the government's message. “They are sending a message that the pandemic is over – and it’s not over.”

 

 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-coronavirus-deaths-change-course-lockdown-plan-sage-a9587541.html

 

ETA: Link to the broadcast.

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1eaJbzMAVBYJX

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BN, I wonder if this is an aftermath of making hospitals treat Covid patients and leaving the Nightingale hospitals almost empty?

 

Or that the Nightingales didn't have enough staff to look after seriously ill patients.

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